A Good Role for Carey, and a surprisingly good movie

Rating: 7/10 (22 February 2002)

Nothing really to spoil here.
Jim Carey and Andy Kaufman in someways are similar. Both were over the top. And, in some ways, it's dangerous. However, Jim threw himself into Andy's head, and at some times I think he was possessed. At some times, Jim tended to play "Andy the Character" as opposed to "Real Andy", though who really knows what that was.
I wish they would have had Jim play Andy a bit more straight when he was off-stage in private, though it's quite possible this is not a far stretch from reality. In many ways, Andy's private image has remained an enigma to the public, but I suppose Andy would want it that way, and would rather be portrayed a bit more over the top in "private" than he may have been.
Of course, with Kaufman, this eventually backfired on him when he was suffering from cancer and the world thought it was a joke (Jim hasn't blurred the line like Andy did).
Historically, they got a lot out of sequence (again, for dramatic purposes). Still, it was pretty nice, and I was pleased with how it told the story. The acting was solid, and Danny DeVito was interesting to see as his manager (since we see most of the rest of the TAXI cast in it as well as themselves). And this movie just reminds us that whether you belive Andy is alive or dead, the fact it is questioned to this day by some people, he truly has had the last laugh.