
SummaryChevy Chase rose to fame on SNL before becoming a movie star in the 1980s. Known for physical comedy and deadpan delivery, his career later declined amid reports of difficult behavior.
Directed By:Marina Zenovich
I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not
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64
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
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Jan 5, 2026
75
The director succeeds most at giving an inkling of the real Chase, now somewhat frail in his 80s. But she also makes a case that at past points, when the public consensus was “God, he’s being an ass again,” the truth may have been rather more poignant.
Jan 2, 2026
75
One can’t help but feel sad, and yes, sometimes infuriated, that Chevy Chase never fully figured out a way to enjoy his great success without making so many others in his circle miserable.
Jan 17, 2026
70
If you go into the movie wanting to be shocked and appalled, you won’t be disappointed.
Jan 5, 2026
60
Zenovich does a better job of acknowledging contradictions in complicated human behavior than reckoning with what those contradictions mean. Her documentaries are particularly flimsy when it comes to linking difficult men with bigger institutional failures. Still, there are worthwhile conversations that I’m Chevy Chase might allow viewers to have.
Jan 2, 2026
60
Best of all, Zenovich and her editor, splicing and dicing 50 years of archive material, get across Chase’s abundant talent at its best, particularly his masterly command of the pratfall, and his immaculate comic timing.
Jan 2, 2026
60
Mr. Chase still tries to be funny here, sometimes desperately, and isn’t. Which along with a career’s worth of ill will puts the sting in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not.
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Feb 4, 2026
7
All I heard about this was that Chevy Chase, true to form, was an **** and this love letter to him just proves everyone who hates him right. I disagree. Nothing exposed in this changed my opinion of Chevy Chase - he's a okay ****. What it did do, and not in a smarmy stupid way as so many of these biopics are wont to do, is give some context as to who this guy is. He's funny, acerbic, a bit full of himself, but otherwise an icon of comedy for 30-40 years. The fact that SNL left HIM out of the loop for the 50th is just criminal. **** Sabrina Carpenter was the one who wrang in that reunion is also criminal (no offense to her, but she's known for garbage, Disney kid music, and lude sex pantomimes at her concerts, which are mostly kids, btw). OMG! He could be difficult to work with! OMG! He did a lot of coke in the 70's and 80's! None of this can take away the mark he left on American Comedy. The fact that he also has this wonderful family life as well just hammers home this current, postmodernist attitude of this or that, red/blue, black/white, oppressor/oppressed nonsense they're teaching at so-called institutes of higher learning in this era. Nuance rules and we seem to have forgotten that. The fact that the best/worst things they could come up with are dated attitudes on race and homosexuality from decades ago is just plain ****. Don't believe social media (the only real media now, the legacy media having sold itself to corporate demagogues decades ago), this is a thoughtful and decent biopic on a comedy legend that really did get **** on by the very show he started out on and help make an institution. Shame on you Lorne Michaels and SNL!
Jan 7, 2026
3
This was clearly the work of amateurs. You rarely see a documentary this poorly made; Ed Wood would be proud of this piece of junk. For instance, there’s a period montage with 80s music, but when it cuts back to the interview, the music stays at full volume. You can barely understand a word being said, and this happens constantly.Then there are people shown on screen for minutes at a time, but they forgot to include their names, leaving you wondering, 'Who the hell is this?' This whole mess is riddled with these kinds of amateur mistakes and blunders. As a huge fan, I was actually excited to finally see a documentary about Chevy, and I really tried to ignore the amateurish direction just to enjoy him, but it was truly hard to endure this trash!




























