Good recreations, but....

Rating: Null/10 (25 December 1999)

This movie does a good job recreating Kauffman bits, but there doesn't seem to be much of a story here. They don't explore the relationship between Love's character and Kauffman. They use creative license in places, so why not go all the way with it and put a movie together that works. Why Danny DeVito is playing Shapiro rather than himself still baffles me. Joining DeVito in producing this movie is Robert Shapiro and Bob Zamuta. I can see why these characters came off so good in the movie. Not an ounce of friction between them and Kauffman. Lawler does a good job. Carey must not have done his homework very well when it comes to Lawler, thinking he had to bait Lawler for real to get a good performance from him. I wish good ole J.R. (Jim Ross) commentated like he did back in the 80s, rather than his 90s style of speaking in soundbites "Oh my! Oh my!". Here's an interesting note: Summer 1998 Tony Clifton was at Hugh Hefner's Midnight Summer's Dream party. He was going on and on about being in a Milos Forman movie. So was that Carey, or Paul Giamotti?