Clifford (1994)
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Critic Consensus: Ill-conceived and desperately unfunny, Clifford stars Martin Short as a 10-year-old boy. You read that correctly. That's the joke.
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Cast
as Clifford
as Martin
as Sarah
as Gerald
as Parker
as Annabelle
as Julien
as Theodora
as Woman on Plane
as Roger
as Captain
as Navigator
as Woman Passer-By
as Kevin
as Kevin
as Kevin's Father
as Kevin's Mother
as Debi
as Daycare Center Child
as Daycare Center Child
as Daycare Center Child
as Wendy
as 2nd Stewardess
as Mini-mart Clerk
as Julia
as Bartender
as Senator
as Matthew
as 1st Servant
as 2nd Servant
as Man at Party
as Woman at Party
as Older Woman at Party
as May Ella
as Connie
as Female Security Agent
as Airport Claims Clerk
as 1st Detective
as 2nd Detective
as Brian
as Train Passenger
as Train Passenger
as Transvestite
as Female Photographer
as Terry the Pterodactyl
as Mitchell the Gate Guard
as Teen at Party
as Teen at Party
as Victor
as Servant
as Brian
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Critic Reviews for Clifford
All Critics (31) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (27)
The kid is obnoxious from start to finish, and the way he fantasizes about his uncle's girlfriend (Mary Steenburgen) is tasteless.
Clifford, starring Martin Short as a precociously nasty 10-year-old, is not a good movie. It's not even good/bad. But Short has a few of those laugh-out-loud moments.
Clifford never quite finds its tone. The course of the plot has an inevitability about it that is about as wearying as it is reassuring... And yet Clifford is intermittently hilarious, mainly thanks to Short's performance.
Orion serves up another long-on-the-shelf turkey with this gimmicky, poorly conceived comedy.
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?
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.
Audience Reviews for Clifford
This is one of those family films that just don't work. The use of comedy here is so bad and painful; it made me hate Martin Short afterwards. This film failed as a comedy, it wasn't funny, and the acting and story were horrible. I hated this film as a kid, and I think it's one of the worst family films ever made. I thought that the story was so stupid, and the acting was over the top that it wasn't even fun to watch. Martin Short is horrible here, and honestly I don't get why he's viewed as a comedic genius, he's horrible. This film started out fun, but ended on such a mean spirited note that it ruined the film for me. In the end, the film is a pointless comedy that misses the mark of being memorable, fun and entertaining, because this is a film that ends being mean, because Clifford is just a selfish brat, and you end not caring whatsoever for the character. In fact all you want to do is hit the guy upside the head. This film is not worth your time, and if you're looking for something good you won't find it here. This film was bad, pointless and a total misfire from start to finish. This is just a mean spirited film that doesn't have any charm, and it falls flat. I've avoided other Martin Short films after seeing this, although I saw Mars Attacks because he was a fairly minor character. The guy really creeps me out, and with this film, he really made me feel creeped out. Simply a bad film, not worth your time.
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The screenplay is not the best, but Clifford have an odd and involving dark humor. Sometimes not so funny, but that call the attention. Fresh.
Super Reviewer
Still just as funny as I remembered it was when I saw it over 10 years ago. Regardless of its silliness Martin Short does an amazing acting like an impossible to like little kid.
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Clifford Quotes
| Martin Daniels: | Do you like chocolate? Do you, like chocolate?? |
| Martin Daniels: | Do you like chocolate? Do you, like chocolate? |
| Julien Daniels: | Where did you get that Walkman, you stole it didn't you? Oh, God, is there no end to your madness? |
| Clifford: | No, a kindly old priest gave it to me, Da. |
| Clifford: | I hope you aren't lying, Uncle Martin; 'cause if you did I'd be so ANGRY, I don't know WHAT I'd do! |