Better Man” is based on the true story of the rise, fall and resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams. Director, Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman) chose to represent Williams through the perspective of a monkey and shares more with Las Vegas Now’s Jillian Lopez about his creative approach.

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

Robbie Williams — who rose from the boy band Take That to become one of the biggest UK music icons of the 1990s and early ’00s — is transformed into a singing, dancing chimpanzee thanks to the wonders of CGI in "Better Man.

"As you'll no doubt have heard by now", Robbie Williams is portrayed in this biopic – directed by The Greatest Showman's Michael Gracey – as an ape, said Patrick Cremona in Radio Times. "More specifically",

It's not that the film's subject — bad boy pop star Robbie Williams — is offensive by any means, though his wry and self-effacing humor might not appeal to audiences with a low tolerance for that particular British register.