Synopsis
Offbeat documentarian Chris Smith provides 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.
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Cast
- Jim CarreySelf
- Danny DeVitoSelf
- Miloš FormanSelf
- Judd HirschSelf
- Peter BonerzSelf
- Randall CarverSelf
- Andy DickSelf
- Paul GiamattiSelf
- Hugh HefnerSelf
- Elton JohnSelf
Recommendations
- 100
The New York Times
The 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. - 90
Screen Daily
It makes for powerful and stimulating viewing whether or not a game is being played with viewers. - 90
Variety
Jim & Andy is fleetly edited and engrossing, animated by a sense of discovery. - 90
Los Angeles Times
Catnip 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 - 80
The Guardian
It isn’t nearly as deep as it thinks it is, but it is marvellously entertaining. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
An original, unexpectedly affecting tribute to two distinctive comic performers. - 75
The A.V. Club
There’s something bracing about the difficulty of reconciling this earnest middle-aged hippie with his maniacally impish younger self. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
Jim & Andy is fascinating, but it lands on a weird message: Thank goodness Andy Kaufman existed so Jim Carrey could play him in a movie.
