![]() Kaufman was on his own level - I’m not sure there’s been anyone quite like him since. I liked him better in films like The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, favouring his dramatic acting over his rubber-faced comedy. While I liked him on In Living Color and I eventually warmed to the first Ace Ventura movie, I found a lot of his comedy, movies like The Mask, to be shrill and annoying. I have a shaky relationship with Jim Carrey. The movie studio swept the footage under the rug, so Carrey “wouldn’t look like an asshole.” Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond (Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton), from American Movie’s Chris Smith, finally unearths this footage and tells the story. However, though the movie is pretty meh, Jim Carrey, playing Kaufman, does a bang up job.ĭuring the making of the movie, Carrey had a film crew following him around, documenting his method approach, which frequently wrecked havoc on the set and with other performers. It was competently made, but feels like a colour by numbers greatest hits tape, burdened by biopic clichés. Man on the Moon was a 1999 biopic, directed by Milos Foreman ( One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), about the comedian Andy Kaufman. ![]() ![]() Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond, is the best thing that came from the generic, colour by numbers Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon. By Craig Silliphant 0 Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond ![]()
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