Clifford (1994)
Average Rating: 2.7/10
Reviews Counted: 23
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 21
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Average Rating: 2.4/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 0 | Rotten: 6
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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
Apr 1, 1994 Wide
Mar 2, 2004
MGM
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Cast
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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
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All Critics (24) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (21) | DVD (1)
Orion serves up another long-on-the-shelf turkey with this gimmicky, poorly conceived comedy.
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?
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.
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.
Remember when Martin Short was funny?
Witless slapstick with leering, obnoxious man-child.
A weird movie that could have stood to be weirder still.
A hellish, horrible experience wasting the talents of all involved.
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.
One to cross off your CV Marty
[The film] isn't nearly as bad as it's been made out to be.
Worse than you can imagine.
The DVD should come with a free bottle of aspirin.
Audience Reviews for Clifford
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- Martin Daniels: Do you like chocolate? Do you, like chocolate?
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- Julien Daniels: Where did you get that Walkman, you stole it didn't you? Oh, God, is there no end to your madness?
- Clifford: No, a kindly old priest gave it to me, Da.
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- Clifford: I hope you aren't lying, Uncle Martin; 'cause if you did I'd be so ANGRY, I don't know WHAT I'd do!
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