
A behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on the set of Man on the Moon (1999).... (Full plot summary below)
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A behind-the-scenes look at how Jim Carrey adopted the persona of idiosyncratic comedian Andy Kaufman on the set of Man on the Moon (1999).
Leave your thoughts about Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond.
| The New York TimesManohla DargisThe result isn’t another ho-hum documentary likeness in which all the elements neatly and often flatteringly stack up. “Jim & Andy” is instead a complexly layered and textured Cubist portrait, one that’s been constructed from fragments of its two title subjects and their work. |
| VarietyOwen GleibermanJim & Andy is fleetly edited and engrossing, animated by a sense of discovery. |
| Screen InternationalLee MarshallIt makes for powerful and stimulating viewing whether or not a game is being played with viewers. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleCatnip for comedy nerds and psychoanalysts, "Jim & Andy" works as both a vibrant raising-of-the-dead for the crazed, showbiz-piercing genius that was Kaufman — there's plenty of footage from his performance-art career — and a peek into the mind of a massively talented, box office-busting comedy star at a self-doubting, turbulent time in his life |
| The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloThere’s something bracing about the difficulty of reconciling this earnest middle-aged hippie with his maniacally impish younger self. |
| Entertainment WeeklyDarren FranichJim & Andy is fascinating, but it lands on a weird message: Thank goodness Andy Kaufman existed so Jim Carrey could play him in a movie. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreWhat Carrey adds to our understanding of the man is his simpatico sense that you either become your creation and go to your grave as someone nobody really knows, or you move on from that and find ways of expressing someone closer to who you really are, leaving that “character” or persona you’ve created for public consumption behind. |
| The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyAn original, unexpectedly affecting tribute to two distinctive comic performers. |
| The GuardianJordan HoffmanIt isn’t nearly as deep as it thinks it is, but it is marvellously entertaining. |
| The Film StageJohn Fink[A] hilarious and occasionally moving portrait of Jim Carrey’s time making Milos Forman’s 1999 Andy Kaufman biopic Man on The Moon. |