For many Americans, director Michael Gracey’s kaleidoscopic portrait of the Brit-pop sensation’s career will double as an overdue introduction.

The British pop superstar is portrayed as a monkey in the biographical musical film. Doug Hyde contributed to this story by David Daniel.

There are moments in "Better Man," the often thrilling biopic of unabashedly cheeky U.K. pop star Robbie Williams, where you forget you're watching a CGI monkey in the lead role. But you are watching a CGI monkey,