Awesome movie, performance, portryal

Rating: 9/10 (9 June 2000)

This movie, as many others think, deserved ATLEAST a nomination if not an Academy Award. Many say that Carrey was the PERFECT Kaufman. I think he was the best man for the mind-set of Kaufman, but to me it didn't really look like Kaufman, which is not a bad thing. He portrayed him almost to a T. For those of you who posted that this was just a mesh of scenes, yada yada....you don't know what you're talking about. The people who made this film were Kaufman's close friends, girlfriend, and the list goes on. They have said they felt like they were with Andy the whole 3 months of filming and thought the movie portrayed Andy Kaufman greatly. THEY, not YOU, are the ones to really decide if the movie portrayed Andy well or not because they all actually knew Andy, and you didn't. You saw the "Bad Guy Wrestler" on TV and the jerk who pulled pranks on people. They knew him off the set.
The movie is great and I highly recommend it...OH and if you have DVD, rent the DVD version. It as a Making-Of on it, Kaufman Footage (a few I'd never seen before, performance stuff), and a lot of other cool Kaufman stuff!