John Candy: I Like Me

If you thought John Candy was a good guy before, then this wonderful documentary directed by Colin Hanks seals it. I knew John the film star, but there's so much more - from the early days of Second City right through to his untimely death on the set of Wagons East. From old friends like Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray, no one has a bad word to say about him. The last 20 minutes is hard, but hang around as there are extra scenes after the credits.

I have just watched this very well made documentary about a man I thought I knew, I knew he was a kind and generous loving family man, a proud Canadian, a hero to some a comedy genius to others but it turns out he was so much more than that. Watch it, if you liked John Candy you will feel the same way I did, if you didn't know of him watch it anyway it and you will love him for what he was........a giant loveable comedy legend whose light will never go out and a genuinely loveable gentle man. I like him.

They say that God takes the best ones early in there life, and without a doubt this is true, John Candy not was but still is one of the greats, I like millions of people were and still are again upset by the passing of this great Man, I never got to meet you in this life time, but hopefully I will in the next, your brilliant work will have people laughing for generations, RIP John Candy x.

I felt compelled to write something, because of the warmth of this wonderful human being. Listening to the stories of his peers and how loved he was.

I was a 14 year old boy when John died, I felt it as a real shock, and perhaps my first introduction to loss and grief. Now at 46 with 2 young children of my own I feel it even more. He was just so relatable, the everyman.... The Uncle... like Buck.

I can't speak highly enough of how this documentary has been put together. It's all there apart from Brewsters Millions, which is a shame, as It would have been very interesting to find out about his relationship with Richard Pryor.

The world has been worse off since John Candy"s passing, he was one in a billion.

Through some fascinating and deeply-insightful input from those who loved, admired, and worked closely with the genius who was John Candy, this memorandum of his life is very impressive and yet horribly depressing. John's contributions to our planet are hard to even describe, but if you want to feel the loses through the memories of those who got to spend time with him you can't ask for more than the interviews this film offers. Many of them bring much of who he really was into the light for us to see. And frankly much of it makes a lot of us "fans" look rightfully bad. I double-dog dare you not to tear up or outright bawl your eyes out during many scenes. I certainly fell in love and felt his pains. I felt a burning need to say "thank you" one last time, too.

The world lost a lot of sunshine the day John left us, and this documentary reminds that our so-called "celebrities" are people just like us, and that treating them as anything but is a shameful way to live. I very much recommend watching this, whether you understood or appreciated John Candy or not. You'll walk away with your heartstrings tugged. He was a good human.