Man on the Moon (1999)

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

It is a performances centric movie

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

The more time that passes by, the more it seems like Andy Kaufman was a fictional character. I never did warm up to Kaufman as a performer, although I did enjoy his character Latka Gravas on 'Taxi'. One of the impressive things about this movie is that all of the cast members of that show lent their talents in telling the story of his life, or at least the highlights of that story. The only one missing from the set of the 'Taxi' cast was Danny DeVito, who appears in the picture as talent agent and Kaufman's handler, George Shapiro. It was striking for me to remember most of what appears in the story since I got it all piecemeal throughout the late Seventies and early Eighties when Kaufman was making his mark in the entertainment world. Oddly, I recall seeing Kaufman on his Saturday Night Live debut and thought his Mighty Mouse sketch was hilarious. And even while it was happening, I knew all that business about the 'intergender wrestlling' had to be a 'work', to use the profession's own terminology. The infamous Jerry Lawler slap that sent Andy sprawling on the set of the Letterman Show caught me off guard and looked so realistic that for a moment I had my doubts whether there was any acting involved, but that was put to rest in the movie. Portraying Kaufman, Jim Carrey does a splendid job and if you never saw Kaufman live, Carrey would pass as a reasonable substitute. The only thing the film doesn't do is give one any kind of sense of whether the real Andy Kaufman ever came across as an average human being. But maybe that's a moot point, as his entire life seemed to be a kind of 'work' that made normalcy something out of the ordinary.

Man on the Moon is a terrific film with a very well developed plot and a spectacular cast. It is a truly interesting, unconventional biography film that follows the life of complicated, eccentric comedian Andy Kaufman. It does not hold back on showcasing who this man truly was as both a performer and in real life, the film matches up the tone to who he was as a person in a way that I think would have made Kaufman proud had he been around to see this. The only real gripe I had with this movie is that it did not really manage to pull me in at the more emotional moments because of how absurd and over the top it is, for the most part. When they tried to showcase real humanity for Kaufman, it just felt a little too forced and on the nose. The performances are magnificent, Danny DeVito, Paul Giamatti and Courtney Love all truly embody their characters in larger than life performances, but it is without a doubt the remarkable Carrey who really takes us away from beginning to end. He is mesmerizing as Kaufman, funny and emphatic, you will forget you are watching him and just get absorbed in to his portrayal. A great watch. Funny and fascinating, Man on the Moon is a truly unique movie that I would recommend to anyone looking for a good biography or comedy. Follows the life and career of eccentric comedian Andy Kaufman. Best Performance: Jim Carrey

See also: Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond.Andy is a genius and he figured it all out. Same as Jim Carrey.Jim Carrey by honoring his comedian idol in this movie with an AMAZING acting performance which deserves all the awards and compliments.THE GREAT BEYOND part is also a spiritual quest that all human beings need to persuade to understand what being with The God, The One, The Beginning Point, The Dot, The Spirit That Is In Everything.Because as Jim Carrey says after his experience as playing Andy Kaufman affected and changed him a lot and sparked a divine self-realization. As Carrey says; "God is Everything. Everything is divine." which is so true; because at some point everything started with Divine Singularity. To learn more about this spiritual self-realization, please search (Divine Singularity: The Oneness of God | Hamza Andreas Tzortzis) in Google.In conclusion, this movie and also Jim & Andy: The Great Beyonds are part of an amazing self-realization experience.

Andy Kaufman (Jim Carrey) is a misunderstood child and a misunderstood comic. He loves to play WITH the audience more than play TO the audience. Talent agent George Shapiro (Danny DeVito) signs him up despite thinking that he's a foreigner who speaks broken English. He gets the role on Taxi and develops the character Tony Clifton with his writing partner Bob Zmuda (Paul Giamatti). Andy starts wrestling women planting actresses like Lynne Margulies (Courtney Love) who ends up being his girlfriend. He gets into a fight with professional wrestler Jerry Lawler. Then he gets cancer but people aren't sure if it's actually a joke.Firstly, there is a surreal quality to this starting with Andy Kaufman at the beginning of the movie stating that things have been changed up. The other thing is that so many people are playing themselves in the movie. It's like an alternate universe. There's also the fact that Jim Carrey does a lot of crazy stuff on stage. Carrey puts it all on the line in this movie and it shows. I wouldn't put too much stock in the accuracy debate. I don't usual care that much about that and this movie can be seen as another Tony Clifton production anyways.