GetPapa
Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible
Janae Milner
Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.
Bessie Smyth
Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.
Calum Hutton
It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
classicsoncall
The more time that passes by, the more it seems like Andy Kaufman was a fictional character. I never did warm up to Kaufman as a performer, although I did enjoy his character Latka Gravas on 'Taxi'. One of the impressive things about this movie is that all of the cast members of that show lent their talents in telling the story of his life, or at least the highlights of that story. The only one missing from the set of the 'Taxi' cast was Danny DeVito, who appears in the picture as talent agent and Kaufman's handler, George Shapiro. It was striking for me to remember most of what appears in the story since I got it all piecemeal throughout the late Seventies and early Eighties when Kaufman was making his mark in the entertainment world. Oddly, I recall seeing Kaufman on his Saturday Night Live debut and thought his Mighty Mouse sketch was hilarious. And even while it was happening, I knew all that business about the 'intergender wrestlling' had to be a 'work', to use the profession's own terminology. The infamous Jerry Lawler slap that sent Andy sprawling on the set of the Letterman Show caught me off guard and looked so realistic that for a moment I had my doubts whether there was any acting involved, but that was put to rest in the movie. Portraying Kaufman, Jim Carrey does a splendid job and if you never saw Kaufman live, Carrey would pass as a reasonable substitute. The only thing the film doesn't do is give one any kind of sense of whether the real Andy Kaufman ever came across as an average human being. But maybe that's a moot point, as his entire life seemed to be a kind of 'work' that made normalcy something out of the ordinary.
DylanW
"The Man on the Moon" stars Jim Carrey, as the highly debated comedian Andy Kaufman, as well as Danny DeVito, who plays Andy Kaufman's manager, George Shapiro. Jim Carrey has starred in "Dumb and Dumber" as well as the masterpiece "The Truman Show", yet has managed to produce one of the his best performances to date thanks to a hilarious, interesting film directed by Milos Forman, who also directed "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".Based on a true story, the film follows the life of an eccentric American comedian Andy Kaufman, and his practical, crude jokes which he employs to "entertain" his audience. Jim Carrey is brilliant in his role as Andy Kaufman, capturing pure comedic essence in his performance and precisely, if not perfectly, mimicking Kaufman's original movements and gestures. With a brilliant performance, all that remained was a brilliant script; which was delivered. The script is constantly hilarious but despite a small lag in the middle section and an abrupt ending, the script is fabulously pieced with twists available and lovable characters- "You're insane, but you might also be brilliant".
John Brooks
As the title of this review says. This is a very strongly written and directed biography about the life of Andy Kaufman, a very, very, VERY strange comedian who had the most unique sense of humor, and as you can judge yourselves by looking up some of his real life sketches online, was at very least part genius, if I can say so. Jim Carrey comes in. Possibly the best human being, if not 'the only', on the planet to play this role. It's one of these roles that are just tailor-made for a very specific individual. The film, up until the very last scene, is a tribute to Kaufman for how incredibly ahead of his time he was and the utterly unique sense of humor and creativity he possessed, completely detached from anything else that existed at the time and even for now. The film is very direct, vivid. It somewhat feels like a sequence of newspaper articles depicting Kaufman's life events put together in a coherent way. Jim Carrey is an amazing human being, and this film matches that special, unique quality he's always Carried with him (get it ? 'Carried' ?.. eh, awful...). A very nice film, and eye-opening for many who may've never heard of this contemporary genius portrayed here by another contemporary genius.
gavin6942
The life and career of a legendary comedian, Andy Kaufman (Jim Carrey).If you never had the chance to see Andy Kaufman in his lifetime, this more or less sums up all his characters and his best skits. The Tony Clifton character is best, at least as portrayed in this film, but all have become a part of popular culture. Jim Carrey may or may not exactly look the part, but he was the only man who could have done this and knocks it out of the park.Much like Kaufman himself, this film is hilarious at times and grating at others. Sometimes the laughs came from the audience and sometimes the audiences suffered at Andy's expense. But, of course, this is because he was not so much a comedian as a performance artist. When we expect something else, we only open ourselves to disappointment.
