‘I Like Me’ TIFF Review: Liking John Candy Isn’t Enough

After the opening-night screening of John Candy: I Like Me at the Toronto International Film Festival, director Colin Hanks walked onstage and recalled a conversation he had with Martin Short. “No one is going to say ‘no,’” the comedian cautioned him about the number of talking heads who’d be willing to gush about Candy’s life and work. And indeed, I Like Me is as A-list heavy a documentary as any in recent memory. It features interviews with Short, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Conan O’Brien, Mel Brooks, Tom Hanks, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, every other living SCTV cast member minus Rick Moranis, and more. It’s produced by Ryan Reynolds, who joined Hanks onstage for the post-screening Q&A. Even the prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney, got in on it, m