a beautiful movie

Rating: Null/10 (4 January 2000)

Recently, I had the pleasure of seeing Man on the Moon. Personally, I found this to be a beautiful movie. I was able to forget that it was Jim Carrey portraying Kaufman. He actually became Andy. Unlike Carrey's other movies in which he plays pretty much a stereotypical character, in this you get to see a different version of him. The writers of the movie, Scott Alexander and Larry Karazewski, along with director Milos Forman, did an excellent job of portraying the most important aspects of Kaufman's life. To me, they captured the many different sides of him: his comic ingenuity, opinions of the entertainment world, his "different" (and unaccepted) childhood, and his wracked emotions. Carrey's co-stars include Danny DeVito as his manager George Shapiro, Courtney Love as his girlfriend Lynne Margulies, and Paul Giamatti (also known as "Pig Vomit" from Howard Stern's "Private Pars") as Kaufman's best friend and writer Bob Zmuda. And although I really don't like Courtney Love, she is a very convincing actress; I'll give her that much. So I do really recommend this movie to everyone, but I would suggest that you have previously seen some of Kaufman's work, or at least have a bit of an interest in his life and who he was. (Remember: this is a comeday laced with hints of drama. Don't let the previews fool you; it's not all laughs.)