Clifford's Really Big Movie Reviews

Charming and harmless. Nap while your kid enjoys.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

So, how big is Clifford's Really Big Movie? Maybe too big for a toddler's britches.

| Original Score: 2.5/4

Some children might find Clifford's tale on the tame side, but at least as many parents will be happily surprised by the warm and cuddly tone.

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Clifford's Really Big Movie is easily consumed and disposed of entertainment for the small fry...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The animation has cheap-and-fast written all over it. It's so chintzy, the characters look as if they've come straight from a box of Colorforms.

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When clapping broke out close to the end of Clifford's Really Big Movie -- the clapping of little hands, I might add, and not big ones -- it felt as spontaneous and as heartfelt an expression of youthful joy as I have heard in a long time.

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A slightly distended version of the television program, here voiced by some of the best actors in the animation business, including the late, great John Ritter in the title role.

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Modest in the best sense of the word, this traditional animated film adheres closely to the gentle, easygoing tone of the hugely popular PBS series.

| Original Score: 3/4

The messages are honest and not slathered. The characters are kind, amusing and, by now, quite familiar (author Norman Birdwell created Clifford and friends some 40 years ago).

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

Despite the movie's rather unoriginal story -- that age-old plot about running off to the join the circus -- at least the filmmakers have created something which, though a little bland, is never crass or vulgar.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

It's not dreadful, just dull.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

Though not exactly a gripping experience for adults, parents have reason to be grateful for a movie that has been so carefully tailored to preschool to first-grade sensibilities.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Should delight most four-year-olds and won't torture parents (much) in the process.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Unlike television cartoons that sell their souls to make the leap to the big screen, this animated G-rated film is faithful to Norman Bridwell's beloved book series about the big red dog.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Trades in easygoing humor to peddle its message of bigheartedness.

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The limited animation style looks static on the big screen and the movie is too long for its age group even at 75 minutes. (It was too long for my age group, too.)

| Original Score: C

A really big yawn...No one whose age is into double digits will find much to enjoy in this gentle, innocuous and very dull feature.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

Just okay. My kids enjoyed it, although my daughter said she wouldn't mind not seeing it again.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

Belies its name with its formulaic storytelling and lackluster animation.

Plays like a two-part episode of Clifford's really small TV show.

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