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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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Kevin Lally

There's a method to the madness after all.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Feb., 26 2007 07:52 AM

Film Journal International

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3/5

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 06 2005 07:54 PM

Film Threat

N/R

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 15 2005 03:48 AM

AV Club

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2.5/5

Scott Weinberg

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 Source: | comment Comment | Oct., 01 2005 04:24 PM

DVDTalk.com

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MaryAnn Johanson

Glick isn’t... satisfying as satire...

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 13 2005 01:36 AM

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Angela Baldassarre

Glick goes goofy as comedy sketch fails to fill up a feature film.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 12 2005 03:25 PM

Sympatico.ca

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3/5

D.W. Smith

I did find myself laughing at times, and if you are a Jiminy Glick fan, you will too.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 10 2005 03:15 AM

Film Threat

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2.5/4

Kevin Allison

A very bumpy transition to the big screen realm of 90-minute storytelling.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 10 2005 03:15 AM

Premiere Magazine

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Richard Roeper

It didn’t work. There’s not a movie here.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 09 2005 12:39 PM

Ebert & Roeper

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Andy Klein

The plot barely even qualifies as a throwaway, but along the way there are several funny bits.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 08 2005 11:52 PM

Los Angeles CityBeat

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C-

Frank Swietek

Sporadically amusing but more often flat...its batting average is regrettably low.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 08 2005 06:22 PM

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2/4

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 07 2005 04:05 AM

Hollywood.com

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1.5/4

Michael Wilmington

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 Source: | comment Comment | May., 06 2005 04:11 PM

Chicago Tribune

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1/4

Jami Bernard

What Short does not deserve -- and neither do we -- is a feature-length movie about Jiminy.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 06 2005 04:01 PM

New York Daily News

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1.5/5

Maitland McDonagh

Both excruciatingly dreadful and so truly peculiar that it's hard to look away.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 06 2005 03:58 PM

TV Guide's Movie Guide

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1.5/4

Peter Howell

Glick is a one-note joke, and a flat note at that.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 06 2005 03:55 PM

Toronto Star

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2/4

Stephen Whitty

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 Source: | comment Comment | May., 06 2005 03:51 PM

Newark Star-Ledger

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2/4

Kyle Smith

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 Source: | comment Comment | May., 06 2005 03:49 PM

New York Post

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2.5/5

Jim Slotek

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 Source: | comment Comment | May., 06 2005 03:46 PM

Jam! Movies

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1/5

Louis B. Hobson

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 Source: | comment Comment | May., 06 2005 03:43 PM

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