‘John Candy: I Like Me’ review: Loving portrait predictable but potent

By Mark Meszoros, The News-Herald (Willoughby, Ohio)

An interview with Bill Murray opens “John Candy: I Like Me,” director Colin Hanks’ formulaic but richly enjoyable documentary about the late, great Canadian comedic actor.

Murray apologizes for having nothing bad to say about the man he shared the screen in the 1981 movie “Stripes” — he thinks it would be more interesting if he did, he says, and eventually manages that maybe Candy overdid it in one of their scenes.

Murray’s a good actor, but barely tries to sell the idea.

What becomes clear watching “I Like Me,” the title taken from a line of dialogue in one of Candy’s best-known films, 1987’s “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” is that seemingly everyone liked Candy — even if, like the rest of us, he was far from perfect.

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