A dumber Andy for a dumber age?

Rating: 3/10 (27 December 1999)

As I recall the appeal of Andy Kaufman was that he did a hip, sophisticated act, somewhere between state-of-the-art standup and museum-quality performance art. In this film he's portrayed as an obnoxious, antisocial jerk whose humor mostly consisted of alternately insulting and boring people. Which I suppose is credible as the "Kaufman for Dummies" version, but hardly the whole story. Anyway, the very stale, predictable Hollywood biopic style of the film is so far beneath the intelligence of its subject that it's practically nonsensical. How can a stupid film properly celebrate a smart man?