In fact, the music by James Horner (Titanic, Braveheart), with accompaniment by jazz veteran Branford Marsalis, makes the movie much, much better,
perfectly hitting the right notes at the right times.
Charlie Kaufman's screenplay
hits the
right notes in its adaptation of Chuck Barris's indescribably bizarre autobiography, understanding that the life of an anti-television television show maker is timed
perfectly for the film medium that finds itself at a crossroads where, increasingly, the pictures are approaching their television counterparts in self - reflexivity.