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: Action/Adventure
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
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There's a method to the madness after all. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Glick isn’t... satisfying as satire... Full Review |
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Glick goes goofy as comedy sketch fails to fill up a feature film. Full Review |
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I did find myself laughing at times, and if you are a Jiminy Glick fan, you will too. Full Review |
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A very bumpy transition to the big screen realm of 90-minute storytelling. Full Review |
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It didn’t work. There’s not a movie here. Full Review |
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The plot barely even qualifies as a throwaway, but along the way there are several funny bits. Full Review |
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Sporadically amusing but more often flat...its batting average is regrettably low. Full Review |
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Wedding a fairly complex mystery with show-biz satire against the real-life festival backdrop requires more structure and maybe more scripted scenes. Full Review |
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What Short does not deserve -- and neither do we -- is a feature-length movie about Jiminy. Full Review |
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Both excruciatingly dreadful and so truly peculiar that it's hard to look away. Full Review |
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Glick is a one-note joke, and a flat note at that. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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