Pharrell’s Piece by Piece: A unique journey

(***)“It might seem crazy what I’m about to say.” But this fun-to-watch bio/mus/doc should’ve been titled Happy, and not Piece by Piece. That’s the vibe. That’s the depth.Certainly, Pharrell Williams is worthy of a movie about his musical feats. He’s won 13 Grammy Awards; an Academy Award nomination (Happy for Despicable Me 2) and his productions have sold around 100M copies worldwide. Certainly, if Sean Combs could produce a film about himself, (Can’t Stop,& Won’t Stop: A Bad Boy Story), Williams is entitled too. Right?Once upon a time, a precocious young kid from the projects of Virginia Beach, dreamed big and out of the box. “I knew I was different. People would say, ‘Oh that’s an odd child.’ But I loved music. Music would come out of me,” recalls Williams. Almost predestined, he teamed up with his pal Chad Hugo, whom he’d known since 7th grade, and they formed the production duo The Neptunes. The rest is modern music history. A redacted version.Snoop Dogg in Piece by Piece.The idea of interviewing fellow musicians and important people in Williams’ life, is standard. What’s not so standard is having the Oscar-winning documentarian Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) add those voices to...