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Fresh:2
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Average Rating:2.8/10
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: 10-year-old Clifford (Martin Short) is nothing but trouble. When he forces a plane headed for Hawaii to land in L.A., his parents reach the end of their rope. Continuing on to their original... [More]
Starring: Martin Short, Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen, Dabney Coleman
Director: Paul Flaherty
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.
Top CriticGrodin's a fine foil and Steenburgen has some lovely, loopy bits, but their characters are handled mildly, almost naturalistically, and that spills onto Clifford, too. Which is deadly here.
Clifford is the worst comedy since Captain Ron or Pure Luck or Cross My Heart... come to think of it, they all starred Martin Short, too.
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.
Top Critic[The film] isn't nearly as bad as it's been made out to be.
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?
Orion serves up another long-on-the-shelf turkey with this gimmicky, poorly conceived comedy.
Top CriticRemember 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.
Worse than you can imagine.
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.
The DVD should come with a free bottle of aspirin.
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