Stunning

Rating: 10/10 (30 September 2002)

This film is simply fantastic.
Biographies are not my usual fare for my choice of entertainment, but every now and then there is one that simply takes my breath away. In the past these have included Milos Formans other great works Amadeus and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, along with a few others such as Frances. Normaly I simply happen upon them, but this one I actively sought out and I'm glad I did.
As a child I loved Taxi and Andy Kaufman. As an adult I can appreciate more of what he was and did. So I was looking forward to seeing what this film was about. Although not 100% accurate, it has been considered close enough by those involved for them to appear in the movie as either themselves or as other characters. Danny DeVito, who gained his fame from Taxi which was made popular (and possible) by Kaufman plays George Shapiro, who in turn plays a club owner. Many others appear as themselves, and it is just a shame that some of his contemporaries from SNL are now too old to play themselves as they were when the show first started, or have passed on also.
Jim Carrey, as first proven conclusively in The Truman Show, is a fantastic actor and deserved an Oscar. Unfortunately the Oscars are dominated by prejudice and politics (just look at the 2001 awards!) and he didn't get it. He was robbed.