I watched John Candy: I Like Me for the first time on an airplane, and I was prepared to full out bawl at the content. While it did get emotional in moments, Colin Hanks’ documentary mostly gives you a warm picture of a man that lit up the room every time he walked in, a man who had struggles of course, but always wanted to take care of others. There’s a darker version of John Candy, the man that often gets compared to funnymen Chris Farley and John Belushi, who also died too young. But Hanks stands by not going there.
The documentary director put out I Like Me, a title nodding back to Candy’s iconic Planes, Trains and Automobiles movie, in late 2025. Months later, it’s still making an impact on his fans. Hanks recently admitted there was a more “salacious” version of the Prime Video movie he could have made, but chose not to, mentioning to THR:
