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Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood (2004)

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Reviews Counted:44

Fresh:10

Rotten:34

Average Rating:4.6/10

Consensus: A television sketch streatched to feature length.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] For language and crude sexual content

Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

Theatrical Release:May 6, 2005 Limited

Box Office: $25,660

Synopsis: Multitalented comedian Martin Short brings his character Jiminy Glick, the Butte, Montana entertainment television reporter, to the big screen in the comedy JIMINY GLICK IN LALAWOOD. A little... Multitalented comedian Martin Short brings his character Jiminy Glick, the Butte, Montana entertainment television reporter, to the big screen in the comedy JIMINY GLICK IN LALAWOOD. A little sweaty and a lot excitable, Jiminy's finally headed to the big time: the Toronto Film Festival. With his wife Dixie (Jan Hooks) and twin sons Matthew and Modine in tow, Jiminy is poised to realize his celebrity-worshipping dreams by becoming an industry player. After he scores an interview with reclusive, bad-boy actor Ben DiCarlo (Corey Pearson), Jiminy is catapulted to sudden fame and everyone wants in on the action. A famous actress on the decline, Miranda Coolidge (Elizabeth Perkins), seeks Jiminy out, but their new friendship appears to have a deadly result. Can gentle journalist Glick have a hidden violent side? Short, who co-wrote this film with Paul Flaherty and Michael Short, first introduced Jiminy Glick via his Comedy Central television program PRIMETIME GLICK. Here, in a feature-length film, Jiminy has ample room to skewer the pervasive culture of celebrity worship while tying in knowledge of movies and Hollywood history. Staying with his family in a creepy hotel far from the glitterati, with director David Lynch (Short again) as a quasi-guide and narrator, Jiminy navigates the treacherous waters of fame with hilarious results. [More]

Starring: Martin Short, Corey Pearson, Elizabeth Perkins, Jan Hooks

Starring: Martin Short, Corey Pearson, Elizabeth Perkins, Jan Hooks, John Michael Higgins, Janeane Garofalo

Director: Vadim Jean

Director: Vadim Jean
Screenwriter: Martin Short, Paul Flaherty
Producer: Bernie Brillstein, Paul Brooks, Peter Safran, Martin Short
Studio: MGM/UA

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There's a method to the madness after all.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
02/26/07
Kevin Lally
Kevin Lally
Film Journal International

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Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
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Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
10/15/05
AV Club

Here's hoping Short's next project is more worthy of the guy's skills, because this Jiminy Glick character grows real old, real fast.

Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com | comment Comment
10/01/05
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
DVDTalk.com

Glick isn’t... satisfying as satire...

Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment Comment
05/13/05
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

Glick goes goofy as comedy sketch fails to fill up a feature film.

Full Review Source: Sympatico.ca | comment Comment
05/12/05
Angela Baldassarre
Angela Baldassarre
Sympatico.ca

I did find myself laughing at times, and if you are a Jiminy Glick fan, you will too.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
05/10/05
D.W. Smith
D.W. Smith
Film Threat

A very bumpy transition to the big screen realm of 90-minute storytelling.

Full Review Source: Premiere Magazine | comment Comment
05/10/05
Kevin Allison
Kevin Allison
Premiere Magazine

It didn’t work. There’s not a movie here.

Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
05/09/05
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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The plot barely even qualifies as a throwaway, but along the way there are several funny bits.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles CityBeat | comment Comment
05/08/05
Andy Klein
Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat

Sporadically amusing but more often flat...its batting average is regrettably low.

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05/08/05
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
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Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
05/07/05
Hollywood.com

Wedding a fairly complex mystery with show-biz satire against the real-life festival backdrop requires more structure and maybe more scripted scenes.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
05/06/05
Michael Wilmington
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune
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What Short does not deserve -- and neither do we -- is a feature-length movie about Jiminy.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
05/06/05
Jami Bernard
Jami Bernard
New York Daily News
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Both excruciatingly dreadful and so truly peculiar that it's hard to look away.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
05/06/05
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Glick is a one-note joke, and a flat note at that.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
05/06/05
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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Within 40 minutes, though, you may realize you've had about as much fun as you're going to -- and that the movie is barely halfway done.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
05/06/05
Stephen Whitty
Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
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Good news, fans of Martin Short's porky celebrity interviewer, Jiminy Glick: There's a big-screen version of the short-lived Comedy Central series, and both of you will enjoy it.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
05/06/05
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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Kind of satire-lite, it's better than one has a right to expect of a feature film starring a latex-enhanced TV character. And if you don't like it, well it's not very long.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
05/06/05
Jim Slotek
Jim Slotek
Jam! Movies

There are so many unexplored comic possibilities in this movie-within-a-movie that are never explored. That would have required some genuine forethought and detailed script work.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
05/06/05
Louis B. Hobson
Louis B. Hobson
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