Great Movie

Rating: Null/10 (8 May 2002)

In my opinion, Man On The Moon is a great movie. This movie was released when I was in 8th grade and I remember seeing the trailer for the first time while watching Saturday Night Live's 25th Anniversary special which had been shown on a Sunday in October of 1999. By the time the film was in theatres in Decemeber, I had seen a lot of reruns of TAXI and some other real life performances by Andy Kaufman. I became fascinated with his material and acts he put on people. I was young and I couldn't distinguish what things were real and what things weren't with Andy. When I saw this movie in theatres at age 13 I thought it was great. Jim Carrey, I thought was the best possible actor to play Andy Kaufman. He did an awesome job imitating Andy Kaufman's alter ego Tony Clifton. I loved the fact that Milo's Forman decided to bring back the majority of the cast of TAXI to play the roles of themselves 20 years ago. I didn't like the fact that DeVito didn't take on the role of Louie DePalma in addition to him playing Andy's agent George Shapiro. I think it was awesome how HollyWood recreated the set of TAXI. The Man On The Moon soundtrack is just as good as the film itself, it has great songs on it most of which were by R.E.M. I think Man On The Moon has to be the greatest film based on a real life figure. I liked this movie and I think Andy Kaufman was a genius and one of the best entertainers that ever lived. A lot of people believe that the man still lives and from what I have seen and read about Andy Kaufman, I would not be suprised if he was still alive and returned in 20-25 years when people least expect it, but I do think if he was still living he would have returned when this film came out. All in all this is a great movie- 4 out of 4 stars.