There's a method to the madness after all.
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Comedies
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
Reviews for Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood
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.
I did find myself laughing at times, and if you are a Jiminy Glick fan, you will too.
A very bumpy transition to the big screen realm of 90-minute storytelling.
The plot barely even qualifies as a throwaway, but along the way there are several funny bits.
Sporadically amusing but more often flat...its batting average is regrettably low.
Wedding a fairly complex mystery with show-biz satire against the real-life festival backdrop requires more structure and maybe more scripted scenes.
What Short does not deserve -- and neither do we -- is a feature-length movie about Jiminy.
Both excruciatingly dreadful and so truly peculiar that it's hard to look away.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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