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Summary: what a film!
Review: this was one of the best films i saw last year. it was great. jim carrey was excellent. it's a shame he was not nominated for an academy award. anyway, don't pay attention to the academy awards and see this film.
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Summary: Milos Foreman delivers again
Review: His third best only next to One Flew and Amadeus it is a fantastic chronicle to the life of Andy Kaufman, the comedian who spent life as a joke for himself. Foreman, next only to Michael Mann, is one of the best mood setters with camera work and makes you feel the emotion of Kaufman simply from angle. Jim Carrey gives what should have been an oscar nominated performance and is dead on as Kaufman. With the exception of the over-extended detail this movie was flawless and one of the top 10 of 1999.
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Summary: Great performance, but who WAS Andy Kaufman?
Review: Jim Carrey does a brilliant portrayal of the mysterious Andy Kaufmann, this we know. But, aside from reminding us how OLD the cast from "Taxi" has gotten (Jeff Conaway, we hardly knew ye!), the film provides little else. Perhaps the lack of insight into Andy's personality was exactly the point of the movie: Kaufmann WAS mysterious even to those closest to him (and himself). Still, I can't help but feel a bit cheated. I was hoping Milos Foreman would help answer some basic questions and help us see Andy Kaufmann for who he really was -- not for all the personalities he portrayed in his routines. The movie basically rehashes the rise of his career and his battle with cancer, but it never lets us past those manic performances to see the person. That's what I watched the movie to see and was sorely disappointed.The three stars are for Jim Carrey's performance. The movie itself, however, left me flat.
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Summary: Carrey should have had an Oscar
Review: Being a European I had never heard of Andy Kaufmann, when I first watched this movie. The film gave me a great introduction to a very special comedian and a unique sense of humour. I'm happy to have been made aware of Andy Kaufmann.
Being a Jim Carrey fan, especially of his more serious acting, I enjoyed the movie from the first to the last second. More than anything it shows Jim Carrey's wide range as an actor. He does the wonderfully obnoxious Tony Clifton, the awkward nerdy private Andy and the sensitive, cancer-struck Andy. He should have had an Oscar - but of course this comes from someone who has never seen the real Andy Kaufmann perform.
Not being a Danny DeVito fan in particular, I can still say I enjoyed his performance in this film.
What can I say - Tony Clifton makes me laugh!
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Summary: BORING!
Review: Jim Carrey delivers an Oscar winning performance but the movie is so boring and terrible that it should have been burned.
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Summary: Carrey should have won an oscar
Review: Hollywood deserves to die. That's right, you heard me. Every member of the academy of motion picture arts and sciences deserves to be beaten to a bloody pulp with an aluminum baseball bat, and then left in some dank Santa Monica alleyway to bleed to death. That is my opinion.
Hollywood is guilty, my friends. They are guilty of being jealous, malicious, pigs. You are probably saying to yourself "Oh, really? what else is new?" Well, the answer is nothing, but that doesn't change the fact that Hollywood has become the enemy of the young and the ambitious. Jim Carrey is one of the most talented and nicest people to walk the face of the earth, and Hollywood hates him for it. They have formed a pact, a secret pact against him. It is a pact that is filled with crusty old codgers, drug addicts, sick gamblers, alcoholics and people who are dying of Aids. This pact has made it their duty to denounce Jim Carrey's work. All of it. Whether it is any good or not. Jim isn't the first victim of such abuse, and he sure as hell won't be the last, but it's still something that never ceases to disgust me.
My point? Jim Carrey deserves more credit than he gets, and this film is just one example of a talent that has been so criminally underrated. When the Academy failed to nominate Jim Carrey for his uncanny role, I promised myself that I would never watch the Oscars again, and I haven't. That was something like six years ago. I'm fairly proud of myself. I think I deserve a pat on the back, to tell you the truth, but that's besides the point. The point is, if Jim Carrey has fans, they need to start showing themselves. They need to stop letting hollyweird make their decisions for them. Watch this, or any of Jim Carrey's dramatic films and you'll see what I mean.
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Summary: Here I come to save the day!
Review: Man On The Moon is about the life of Andy Kaufman trying to become the world's biggest star.Danny Devito is a guy named George who plays Andy's manager who's attempting to help Andy in his success.He first trys to get him on Taxi and Andy refuses, but finally takes the job in spite that he hated sitcoms. It had some good acting and in the beginning, Andy imitates Mighty Mouse and Elvis Presley singing Blue Suede Shoes. The whole movie is indeed strange, and when Andy's in Taxi, it was an episode where cookies or something had drugs in them. It also showed Christopher Lloyd, too {of course}. The movie's just about Andy trying to become a star and the movie gets more serious as it goes on and Andy soon gets lung cancer, but still performs and only wants to wrestle women. When Andy finally tries to wrestle a man, he gets hurt and ends up on the David Letterman show apologizing for what he had done and gets mad and does something that usually doesn't happen on the show: He turns it into a Jerry Springer-like thing. He yells at the guy he's with, says a few crude words, and throws David's coffee at him. Then he leaves the set. Before that, he was doing another show where he was supposed to play someone getting high, it all goes ballistic, and Andy has to apologize. While he is, people are laughing at him and commercials roll while he's still trying to explain. When Andy's a wrestler, he's talking bad about women and still wants to try to win. {That was the very same time he wrestled a guy and lost}. I think I should keep the rest a secret because I've said enough now}.
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Summary: An accomplished biopic that really understands its subject
Review: Director Milos Forman likes biopics, and he loves his cast from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Both of those things are both evident and inextricable from his 1999 film about the life of legendary 70's/80's comedian Andy Kauffman, a movie I found more enriching in its faith in its subject than its actual craft as a life-of film. But boy does Moon believe Kauffman, played to a "T" by Jim Carrey, was a genius. At least 75% of the film re-enacts, in detail, his notorious acts (disguising himself as a chauvenistic, mean-spirited lounge singer; reading the entire Great Gatsby to a college crowd; verbally assaulting a stadium full of wrestling fans), but the movie also wisely does its best to explain why Kauffman was so revolutionary. After seeing Man on the Moon, I believe it.
Kauffman's brand of comedy was like shock humor in concept, not content, and such an elaborate concept is communicated so well in Moon that I just enjoyed seeing what the guy would pull next. The movie skimps on his personal life quite a bit, introducing Courtney Love as the love of his life, but never giving her much of a chance onscreen; and I would have liked to have seen more about his days in between childhood and fame. But these are quibbles about a movie that truly understands, in the deepest way, the strange art of its subject. I saw Pollock recently and was enraptured by the story of the man, but bored with the movie's presentation of it. Man on the Moon works as both comedy and insightful biography, and even if you've never heard of Andy Kauffman before, you're likely to 'get' him just like a lifelong fan would. For newcomers to Kauffman's life (hey, most of us reading this weren't around then), it's a blast seeing his outrageous stunts, and it's a testament to the movie that it's just as moving in the end as it was funny all along. GRADE: B+
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Summary: strange movie
Review: this guy had problems for sure, i never seen his act, or his appearances on taxie..or even a clip, i had heard jim carrey's perfromance of theis truly bizarre person was good and was almost a carbon copy of the real man.
i don't get his humour at all, or saturday night live for that matter, mad tv and in living color for me...!
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Summary: A joke on us?
Review: My favorite Kaufman routine is one in which he is in a club and he is being heckled by a guy. The guys says "You suck, Kaufman" and Kaufman gives some line back to him. Kaufman takes care of the heckler, classic comedian style. And then the heckler days "yOU'RE NOT FUNNY, kAUFMAN. tHE TRUTH IS, YOU PAID ME TO DO THIS...Am I right? Am I right Kaufman, didn't you pay me...to heckle you? So you would look good, huh?" And this bit goes on for an uncomfortable amount of time. Kaufman seemed to be about layers of uncomfortability...about making the audience feel something other than laughs.. Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski are fun screenwriters, (though I am not sure they are still working) having produced script for Larry Flynt and Ed Wood....they are not always concerned with tradition, and find great hools in telling the story. They then seem like the perfect choice for writing the story of Andy Kaufman, the most non traditional of performers...and certainly the first five minutes of the film does not dissapoint...Kaufman(Jim Carrey) stands in a movie screen, tells everybody it is his movie and the weirdness ensues. Ok. Well, then the next two hours never captures this same kind of "what is real?" feeling. I mean, don't get me wrong. I enjoyed this movie, and Carrey does an amazing job of recreating Kaufman onstage...but I thought there were a few problems...one is that no one knew Kaufman that well, and therefore it is almost impossible to create a bio pic for someone you can't actually identify with. Therefore we are saddled with forties bio cliches" I Want to Be The greatest of all times" and the fantastic"I want To Play Carnegie Hall", and the obligatory "guy finds cyst on his neck". Second of All, Kaufman just comes off like a jerk half the time. Third of All, when the film ends, we are no further along about Kaufman than When the film started. But as I think about it, here an hour and a half after seeing the movie, I wonder if the wanting more, the frustration, the unanswered questions is not the ultimate Kaufman prank. And the pranks are the major gist of the film. Much of the film is about an audience not knowing how to take it all...and they are brilliant pranks...just when you think you have it figured out, Kaufman's illusionary reality takes over. So have we been had? Is this film pretending to be a meaningful bio, and is the ultimate prank? Did we watch
this just to be part of a giant illusion, to be caught up in the routines, to cringe at the innapropriate gags, to wonder why all the members of Taxi are playing themselves twenty years later and DiVito is playing someone else?, and then walk away feeling we have seen a genius or a madman or both...
and feel like we have been involved in some giant Kaufmanesque experience... All in all, I think this is a worthwhile experience... or maybe Kaufman is alive, and paid me to write this.
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