Directed by:
Miloš FormanCinematography:
Anastas N. MichosCast:
Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Courtney Love, Paul Giamatti, Vincent Schiavelli, Leslie Lyles, Peter Bonerz, Eva Jeníčková, Richard Belzer, Michael Kelly (more)VOD (2)
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Man on the Moon, starring Jim Carrey, as the late Andy Kaufman who was considered the most innovative, eccentric and enigmatic comic of his time. A master at provoking audiences, Kaufman could generate belly laughs, stony silence, tears or brawls. Danny DeVito also stars in Man on the Moon as Kaufman's manager, George Shapiro, with Courtney Love co-starring as Lynne Margulies, the woman who befriends and eventually falls in love with the comic. Paul Giamatti portrays Kaufman's best friend and writer, Bob Zmuda. Well-known Vegas lounge singer Tony Clifton stars as himself. (official distributor synopsis)
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To start off with, I found this so confusing that I doubted that it could have been made by a director of Miloš Forman’s caliber. But then all the parts begin to fall into place and I realized that the entire storytelling format and structure beautifully reflects Kaufman’s beguiling humor. The screenplay is highly polished in all respects. Watched a second time, you realize that Man on the Moon is a movie that is thought-out to the very last detail where everything serves toward forming the illusion. All in all perfect. Jim Carrey excels on all fronts in the main role and the others skillfully support him. And as for the directing, this is certainly one of Forman’s most ingenious pictures, while not being his very best.
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One of the best biopics ever made. The filmmakers truly grasped Andy Kaufman's essence, creating a brilliant tribute to his life and legacy. I appreciate how the film presents his story with enough distance for viewers to form their own opinions about who Andy Kaufman was. It doesn't force-feed us what to think; instead, it allows each person to take away something unique and view Andy in their own light. Not everyone may fully appreciate his work, but there's no denying he was a groundbreaking innovator in entertainment who always did things his way. Jim Carrey delivers, in my opinion, the best performance of his career here. It's unbelievable he didn't get an Oscar nomination for it — he absolutely deserved it. Man on the Moon is an extraordinary film about an extraordinary man, directed by an extraordinary filmmaker, and featuring an extraordinary actor in the lead role. Andy Kaufman was one of a kind... and so is Jim Carrey.
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Miloš Forman's filmography has two peaks: In terms of content and the significance of the theme, his best film is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but in terms of film language, editing, and film structure, the most interesting is definitely Man on the Moon. From a commercial perspective, it is Forman's most daring film, as such a demanding work could not find a place in the American market. Jim Carrey's performance is literally fascinating, and undoubtedly, it is his triumph, through which he definitively broke free from the box of a mocking comedian in undemanding comedies. Thanks to the complex personality of Andy Kaufman, the myth surrounding his character, and a series of mystifications accompanying his life (which the screenplay skillfully utilizes), I think it is the most interesting biographical film I have had the opportunity to see so far. Overall impression: 100%.
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The immense weirdness and strangeness of the film bothered me a lot, instead of making everything more interesting and profound. In terms of filmmaking, there's really nothing much to criticize, Miloš Forman is still a great director and he managed to create a film that will definitely make you think hard, which I certainly appreciate a lot. Moreover, Jim Carrey was perfectly cast for the role and the fact that his character could have been played by Kevin Spacey doesn't bother me at all – this was a role for Carrey and no one else, and he played it in an exceptional way. But that’s where all the good stuff ends, because with its hard-to-understand blending of fiction and reality, the film gradually lost my sympathy, Andy's TV appearances seemed terribly weird and absurd, and the 118 minutes were filled with polite and subdued applause rather than enthusiastic and never-ending cheers. I certainly expected more, but I can't say that I was disappointed by Man on the Moon. 65%
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I'm glad I let my Man on the Moon experience mature. Miloš Forman made a film with Jim Carrey at the time of his greatest fame, and few were prepared for the change in genre. But we now know, especially after his encounter with the series I'm Dying Up Here (2017), what Carrey's relationship was to the early days of stand-up. After all, the format wasn't even introduced then, but today we can enjoy it to the fullest.
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