Supermensch: The Legend Of Shep Gordon Review

Almost certainly the first film to feature both Tom Arnold and the Dalai Lama (only one recounts a story about being ejected from a nightclub), Mike Myers’ directorial debut is a racy and infectious love letter to his old pal, Hollywood, and music industry svengali Shep Gordon. A more self-important subject would have made for hagiographic guff, but Gordon’s enjoyable yarns of Alice Cooper’s chicken-biting, Jimi Hendrix’s weed requirements and his own unlikely invention of celebrity chefdom, each delivered with self-effacing wit, keep Myers’ we’re-not-worthiness firmly in check.