unsuccessful and questionable

Rating: 6/10 (4 June 2000)

Man on the Moon leaves the viewers with two questions. (1) What possessed anyone to make this movie? (2) Why did anyone who knew Andy Kaufman care about him? Andy Kaufman may have been brilliant and eccentric (and other than the Mighty Mouse and Latka, nothing was very funny so the brilliance is questionable), but there's no attempt to explain to an audience what made him tick - and showing what made him tick MIGHT have made an audience care for two seconds. It's difficult to watch a film when you hate the main character. Carrey is a fantastic actor and certainly capable of going deeper into the character of a complicated man. The film picked up toward the end but there's never an explanation of why people he totally abused, such as the Taxi cast, were shown seemingly to have loving feelings toward him.