If you were into British pop music in the 1990s, you probably know well the boy band hits and solo anthems of one Robbie Williams. Seeing him as a chimpanzee might be a shock. The music biopic "Better Man" takes you on a wild journey through the life of the cheekiest Take That member,

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.