It WAS original

Rating: 8/10 (4 January 2009)

The Truman Show is a product of the age before reality television really took of, and maybe it even contributed to it. Another movie having a similar concept (and effect?) was Edtv.
10 years ago the concept was original. Now, the whole thing is ALMOST plausible as a television show. In fact in Germany they had a Big Brother format in which they had a whole village as their "Big Brother house". The main difference to this movie being that the contestants naturally knew that they were on a TV-show (but what if they had had babies?).
So basically this movie is not so original anymore. Except for the concept, the plot is pretty thin actually. As most Jim Carrey movies, this one relies a lot on his skills. The movie is entertaining, because Jim Carrey is entertaining.
This isn't really a comedy, and definitely nobody would even consider this a comedy, if Truman was played by somebody else then Carrey.