kirwin

So, let me begin by saying that I like Andy Kaufman, I like wrestling, I like parodies, and I like My Dinner With Andre. I wanted very much to love this film, and I wish that I could be as positive about this as some of the other reviews that I have read about it are, but I found this film quite spotty. The parts where it is really parodying My Dinner With Andre were very funny, sometimes outright hilarious. Specifically, the beginning and ending voice-overs were very funny and a lot of the conversation between Andy and Fred was pretty good, plus the absurdity of the situation was entertaining. However, Andy and Fred did a lot of interacting with the waitress, the four girls at the next table, and Bob Zmuda (who was not playing himself), and that was all stupid and pointless. It was just Andy doing his "I'm a big, famous star" schtick and Fred being rude and insensitive. Four or five minutes of that would have been okay, but the twenty-minutes to a half hour of it to which the audience is subjected is just dull and irritating. The whole thing would be excellent had they edited it down to twenty or twenty-five minutes. So, if you're an Andy Kaufman fan, I would recommend taking the time to see it, but only if the opportunity presents itself.

This movie is really bad. Trust me. It's a movie which wants to be Animal House in the 90's or maybe Revenge of the Nerds, except with slacker idiots instead, but really... I can honestly say that this is the worst movie I've seen in several years. The producers somehow thought that taking a bunch of bad stereotypes and wrapping them around a pitiful excuse for a plot would make some sort of social satire about the modern college. Frankly, there's nothing worse than failed social satire. It's not believeable, on target, or humorous. I was watching the movie at home, on TV, and I walked out on it.