Average Rating: 2.7/10
Reviews Counted: 22
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 20
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Average Rating: 2.4/10
Critic Reviews: 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
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.
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?
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.
The DVD should come with a free bottle of aspirin.
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, 2011Super 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, 2009Super Reviewer
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