He could be the jovial, jolly “big man” stereotype, a walking sight gag, the above it all conniving hustler or slacker and a scary guy to cross.

The movies fixated on the former and the middle versions of John Candy more than the latter.

I interviewed him a few times over the years. He’d talk up the picture, be generous about co-stars, maybe settle a score about this or that flop that he made, earlier films that didn’t work out.

For Second City/Toronto, he was many things, including the ultimate Canadian movie critic.

“H’it blowed up REAL good!”

I remember Richard Lewis breaking into tears when I interviewed him not long after Candy’s death (at age 43) while doing a Western they co-starred in. Co-stars like Ally Sheedy and Maureen O’Hara and Levy and Martin would gush.

People loved the guy.

“Soo Canadian,” Dan Aykroyd says in this trailer. We hear from Aykroyd’s eulogy for the one and only “Uncle Buck.”

Let’s hope this MGM/Amazon doc by Colin Hanks and Ryan Reynolds does him justice.

Oct 10 on Amazon.