I thought it was going to be terrible, but I’ve seen it and it's not that bad, lot's of events have obviously been amalgamated, simplified, streamlined and fictionalised, but they’ve managed to get a lot of stuff into the 2 hour time frame.
I was surprised they had “baggage handler” as ‘the’ Pre-Queen job rather than Freddie running the market stall with Roger, but I guess it was easier to introduce Smile, Brian, Roger and Mary all at the same time.
They’ve also disneyfied things quite a bit, Freddies Drug fuled lifestyle of the early 80’s is massively toned down, I’m pretty sure the rest of the Band weren’t squeaky clean and disapproving either, at least until Freddie went totally off the rails.
Jim Hutton seems to be an amalgamation of Jim Hutton and Winnie Kirchberger, He’s introduced as the cater for one of Freddies parties, like Winnie
And Paul Prenter is an amalgamation of every bad person who ever lived and is portrayed as being the puppeteer behind every bad decision the band ever made...
The reason they practised so much for Live Aid was to try and make up for the fact they played Sun City during the apartied the year before, not because they knew Freddie had Aids.
They also have Freddie growing his moustache right after he comes to terms with his sexuality, so he has his 80's look in the 70's. In fact they seem to have the "Personal timeline" set a few years after the "Music Timeline" for most of the movie.
I was honestly expecting it to be terrible and it really wasnt, it did try to cram too much in though, it would have been better in two parts, one set in the 70's and one in the 80's.