A good movie

When I heard about this flick, I was really intrigued. Indeed, I really loved Milos Forman’s previous movie, ‘The People vs. Larry Flynt’, and the guy was coming up with a biographical tale about another celebrity. On top of that, Jim Carrey really impressed me with ‘The Truman Show’ so it was really neat that the guy was showing up a year later in another high profile drama. Eventually, even though I did like it, I can’t say I was really blown away by the whole thing though. Indeed, first of all, I have to admit that I had never heard of Andy Kaufman before so I can’t say I was really dying to see a movie about his life. Furthermore, it didn’t seem that Kaufman was really such a talented comedian and he looked more like an obnoxious and pretentious prick so I can’t say I really cared about what the guy was going through. With all this, it was rather unlikely that this flick would have turned out to be a masterpiece but I still enjoyed it. Indeed, Milos Forman, somewhat a specialist in the biographical genre (see also ‘Amadeus’ and ‘The People vs. Larry Flynt’) was always a solid director and he managed to make this really unpleasant character still quite interesting to behold. For Jim Carrey, same thing here, he delivered a solid performance creating a very wild but intriguing character. To conclude, even though I don’t think it is really great, it is still a solid biographical drama and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are fan of Andy Kaufman’s work.

7/10