Jim Carrey falls into this role without being overly 'Ace Ventura', if that is the right term. However, Man on the Moon's soundtrack is weaker for it, since it just feels like a bunch of filler and isolated comedy pieces, save for "The Great Beyond." That might make it a good souvenir of the film, and it may even capture the movie's spirit, but it makes for an unsatisfying listening experience. Those who worked with the late 35-year old all teamed together to make and star in this movie. Then again, that wouldn't have been as commercial as a soundtrack, and this the only reasonable explanation of why there isn't more score here - it would have broken the conventions of pop soundtrack. What is here is very good and very evocative, and it whets the appetite for a full-fledged score. Man on the Moon Lyrics: Mott the Hoople and the Game of Life / Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah / Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match / Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah / Monopoly, Twenty-One, checkers and chess. But the overall presentation is very nice. It's a small box for so many discs, all the discs are in paper envelopes and there's a nice booklet. Only watched a bit of the DVD but it's some nice stuff so far. Got the big BBC set from my mom for Xmas.
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Throw in REM's "Man on the Moon" plus their tailored-for-the-film "The Great Beyond" (a solid but blatant, uplifting rewrite of "Man on the Moon"), Bob James' "Angela (Theme from Taxi)," and Exile's "Kiss You All Over," and you have precious little original REM score on this album - so little that it often feels like it's missing from the album. Re: R.E.M.: Deluxe Edition Reissues Thread. As a matter of fact, it often feels like the music is merely a device to connect dialogue and comedic songs, including Kaufman's signature "Mighty Mouse Theme," two songs performed by Jim Carrey (one as Kaufman, one as his alter-ego Tony Clifton), a duet between REM and Carrey's Kaufman and Clifton, and an archival Kaufman performance from a 1982 appearance on David Letterman. I actually don't have any, although some may not like that the film is not completely historically accurate. You do not need to be a Kaufman fan to still enjoy this film. Danny DeVito does a good job acting as George Shapiro. Since this is a soundtrack, and not a score album, there are other songs missing here that are heard in the movie, and as a '90s soundtrack, it also has snippets of dialogue scattered throughout its entirety. REM's song 'Man on the Moon' is great as is the rest of the soundtrack. Based on score excerpts on the Man on the Moon soundtrack, they've made some intriguing music, drawing heavily from the spirit and textures of Automatic for the People, but the record itself only give hints of the score. It could be argued that without REM's hit single "Man on the Moon" there wouldn't have been an Andy Kaufman biopic in 1999, so it was only appropriate that director Milos Forman hired the band to write the score for his film.
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