Review of I Am Chris Farley

This was an overall well done documentary on the life of Chris Farley one of the most talented comedians who left this earth far too early. However his true fans really should read the biography written by his brother called The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts. Granted this documentary at the same time had some nice things that the book did not. I especially loved seeing interviews from Christina Applegate, Bo Derek, Mike Myers and Adam Sandler that the book did not have. However most of the documentary while well done and worth watching, had a rushed feeling about it. I know movies tend to do that more than books but this documentary was only an hour and a half long. A two hour minimum running time I think would have made this a bullseye. I felt more time should have been spent on Farley idolizing John Belushi and a little more time as to the cause of his extremely premature death and all the projects he was considering before he left us. I felt not much time was spent on the latter because you can see Sandler, Saget and Tom Arnold are genuinely trying not to burst into tears, at times while being interviewed. Still any fan of the late great Chris Farley should see this, as it does have many excellent interviews and insight into the fated stars life, and you can't help but wonder after watching this all the great things and roles that were yet to come for Farley if only he knew how much all of us loved him, that he should have loved himself just as much.