Monday, May 19, 2003

Tuesday movie review

As Anne said yesterday, I won't review The Matrix Reloaded until it's released in the UK because I'm nice.

Which means only one review today: Man On The Moon the biopic of Andy Kaufmann. This is a reasonable movie, and pretty amusing in places. I'd rarely seen Taxi and wasn't very familiar with Kaufmann's comedy. The film seems to ask, was he a madman or a genius? I'd say neither. He seems to be a pretty mediocre comedian, though he obviously caught the US's attention at some point so maybe he had something.

I liked that they got a lot of the cast of Taxi back to play themselves when they we younger (though without enough screen time to make it look ridiculous). Great REM soundtrack too. Three stars.