This video should be better than it is. The idea — to parody a movie trailer for a biopic about a rock star — is ripe with possibilities (Walk Hard did some fun things with this idea at feature length).
And the assembled cast, including Paul Rudd, Bill Hader and half the correspondent team from The Daily Show, is certainly up to the task.
But the final result falls flat. Too few jokes, too little momentum, not enough focus on the task at hand. Or am I being too harsh?
As for the band, I don’t know The New Pornographers’ music at all. I know them only as the group Neko Case was in before she went solo (and apparently the group she’s still in, though she doesn’t tour with them).
You’ve had some-
thing that’s mine
All this time
So to sing along, cry
Fork it over
I live among
The alarms
Where I trip
Where they sing
So to sing along, cry
Hey, come over
Uh Uh – Uh Uh – Uh Oh-
Up the hill
Goes the type-
writered beat
Of my step
So to sing along, cry
Undiscover
And all the years
At quarter speed
Haloed and
Trembling clean
So to sing along, cry
Turning over
Uh Uh – Uh Uh – Uh Oh-
Slo-o-o-ow do-o-o-own la-a-a-a-die-e-e-es
Slo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ow do-o-o-o-o-o-o-own
These things get louder
These things get louder
The lava alarms
And your true
Villain love
Are kept at bay
So to sing along, cry
Like you wrote it
Will the beams
Be broke and crossed
Motion sensed
It’s all heat
So to sing along, cry
It’s not over
Uh Uh – Uh Uh – Uh Oh-
Slo-o-o-ow do-o-o-own la-a-a-a-die-e-e-es
Slo-o-o-o-o-o-o-ow do-o-o-o-o-o-o-own
These things get louder
These things get louder
So to sing along, cry
So to sing along, cry
You with all your moves
You with all your moves
You with all your moves
You with all your moves
Meet Me In Montauk 
I see what you mean about the video falling a bit flat. Perhaps it’s just hard to make something like this funny without dialogue.
The song, though, has a pretty cool sound.