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Clifford (1994)

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Average Rating: 2.7/10
Reviews Counted: 22
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 20

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Average Rating: 2.4/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 6

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Movie Info

Versatile Canadian comedian Martin Short plays a 10-year old boy in this comedy aimed at younger audiences. The tale is told in flashback to another little boy. Clifford is a manipulative brat. Clifford really wants to visit Dinosaur World in Los Angeles. Clifford wants to go so badly that he manages to force the Hawaii bound plane he and his parents are on to land in L.A. His parents need to attend a convention in Hawaii so they leave him with his Uncle Martin who despises children. Martin's

PG, 1 hr. 29 min.

Comedy, Kids & Family

Directed By: Paul Flaherty

In Theaters: Apr 1, 1994 Wide

On DVD: Mar 2, 2004

MGM

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Cast

Martin Short
Clifford
Charles Grodin
Martin Daniels
Mary Steenburgen
Sarah Davis
Dabney Coleman
Gerald Ellis
G.D. Spradlin
Parker Davis
Anne Jeffreys
Annabelle Davis
Richard Kind
Julien Daniels
Jennifer Savidge
Theodora Daniels
Ben Savage
Roger
Akuyoe
Airport Claims Clerk
Greg Blanchard
Man at Party
Channing Chase
Julia
Natalie Core
Older Woman at Party
Barry Dennen
Terry the Pterodactyl
Richard Fancy
Detective
Don Galloway
Captain
James 'Gypsy' Haake
Transvestite
Sherlynn Hicks
Female Photographer
Linda Hoffman
Stewardess
Sonia Jackson
May Ella
Anthony Johnson
Servant
Brandis Kemp
Woman on Plane
Tim Lane
Navigator
Gregory "Mars" Martin
Brian
Marianne Muellerleile
Kevin's Mother
Jennifer Nash
Wendy
Al Pugliese
Detective
Annabel Schofield
Woman at Party
Tim Stack
Kevin's Father
Susan Varon
Woman Passer-By
David Byrd
Senator
Kevin Mockrin
Kevin
Christopher Murray
Bartender
Kathy Fitzgerald
Connie

Critic Reviews for Clifford

All Critics (22) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (20) | DVD (1)

Orion serves up another long-on-the-shelf turkey with this gimmicky, poorly conceived comedy.

January 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety

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Variety Staff

Variety

Top Critic

Now let's have a show of hands: how many want to see Martin Short play a ten-year-old brat who makes everybody miserable and winds up staying with his uncle (Charles Grodin) in Los Angeles for a week?

January 8, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Chicago Reader

Top Critic

When Martin puts Clifford on a harrowing hyperspeed version of the Larry the Scary Rex ride, the special effects are impressive, but not worth waiting for.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times

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Caryn James

New York Times

Top Critic

Clifford is not bad on the acting, directing or even writing levels. It fails on a deeper level still, the level of the underlying conception. Something about the material itself is profoundly not funny. Irredeemably not funny.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Top Critic

Remember when Martin Short was funny?

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post

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Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

A weird movie that could have stood to be weirder still.

January 8, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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TV Guide's Movie Guide

A hellish, horrible experience wasting the talents of all involved.

July 29, 2007 Comment

Neil Cohen

Echo Magazine Source: Echo Magazine

One can't help but laugh at Short's nutty rendition of an unctous little 10-year-old devil, and Grodin's angry reactions are equally funny as his increasingly exasperated uncle.

March 3, 2006 Comment

Chuck O'Leary

FulvueDrive-in.com

One to cross off your CV Marty

May 6, 2005 Comment

Clint Morris

Moviehole

[The film] isn't nearly as bad as it's been made out to be.

June 27, 2004 Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Worse than you can imagine.

February 11, 2004 Comment

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

The DVD should come with a free bottle of aspirin.

July 26, 2002 Comment

Scott Weinberg

eFilmCritic.com

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The screenplay is not the best, but Clifford have an odd and involving dark humor. Sometimes not so funny, but that call the attention. Fresh.

May 6, 2011

Lucas Martins

Super Reviewer

Still just as funny as I remembered it was when I saw it over 10 years ago. Regardless of its silliness Martin Short does an amazing acting like an impossible to like little kid.

March 1, 2009

James Alvarez

Super Reviewer

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