Great Start, Standard Finish

Rating: 9/10 (23 December 1999)

Man on the Moon is a great film, but one that could have been better. The opening sequence with Andy saying the movie is stupid and rolling the credits was incredible, but I wanted more. Instead it turns into a very good, funny but ultimately a very conventional biopic. I wanted 20 min. of the "Great Gatsby," I wanted half the theater to walk out and the other half to give a standing ovation at the end. Andy was someone who screwed with your mind but this movie, one that was supposed to give you a feel for who he was, didn't do that. I guess it's asking a lot for a studio movie to put the film out of frame during the scene about the v-hold on his TV special but it would have been great. Something along the lines of "Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould" but about Andy was what I guess I really wanted.