Now available on Netflix
Director: Chris Smith
Starring: Jim Carrey
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton. Just soak in that title. Vice wants you to. Andy Kaufman would want you to. Probably. It’s a knowing joke, owing that you already have knowledge of what Tony Clifton is (which, at this point in 2017, would probably be exclusively from The Man on the Moon, rather than the primary source). And that’s kind of what this movie is – it’s a philosophical and skin crawling documentary which requires the reviewer to have watched Jim Carrey’s 1999 biopic about Andy Kaufman to enjoy watching this 2017 film. I did, and I thought it was fascinating.