For once, a bio that eschews sensationalism!

Rating: Null/10 (30 April 2001)

Jim Carrey's best work. He delivers a dead-on performance as controversial comic Andy Kaufman from birth to death. Carrey dominates this film, doing a better job in any bio-pic since Val Kilmer's Jim Morrison. A lot of people poo-pooed the fact that it doesn't uncover anything we don't know, but for once, we get a good straight biopic about someone. I think it would be too difficult to understand Kaufman's comic styling. Everything is staged beautifully, his performances on SNL, his wrestling, his role on Taxi, and that character who was his alter ego (I forgot). The supporting cast, which includes Danny DeVito and Courtney Love, is solid. I just wonder where they found those unattractive, mustachioed, female smokers in the early scenes. Either great make-up or Jim Carrey's friends.