Jim Carrey has never been content with where he is in his craft. While "Ace Ventura" and "Dumb and Dumber" made him a mega rich star in one year, he wasn't satisfied with that. Though he would continue mindless formulaic comedies, in 1998 he garnered critical acclaim for his performance in "The Truman Show." Can Jim Carrey do drama? "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" would later give us an emphatic yes given the right director and script. 2001's "The Majestic" shows us what happens when the director and script aren't there. What is Jim Carrey to do when he is not doing the formula comedies he does today, "Yes Man" or going darker with Joel Schumacher "The Number 23." He needs to hook up with Milos Forman again. Milos Forman cast Carrey as Andy Kaufman for the biopic "Man on the Moon." “Man on the Moon” was the funny and heartwarming then heartbreaking tale of the life of avant garde comedian Andy Kaufman. Carrey disappeared into the role entirely. You saw Andy Kaufman. This is the only film that has utilized Carrey's gifts for comedy and drama. He should've got an Oscar nomination for this one. Unfortunately, Milos Forman and scripts like this are few and far between. Luckily for Carrey, those formulaic wild man scripts are. A guy's got to eat. Whether or not he achieves that stratosphere again or not is up in the air, but he for this one film, he was able to truly maximize everything he had.
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