Clifford

Clifford (1994)

  • 9% of critics liked it
    (23 reviews)

  • 61% of users liked it
    (8,704 ratings)

Versatile Canadian comedian Martin Short plays a 10-year old boy in this comedy aimed at younger audiences. The tale is told in flashback to another little boy. Clifford is a manipulative brat. Clifford really wants to visit Dinosaur World in Los Angeles. Clifford wants to go so badly that he… More

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PG,
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Genres
Comedy, Kids & Family
In Theaters
Apr 1, 1994 Wide
MGM

Critic Reviews

  • Variety Staff, Variety

    Orion serves up another long-on-the-shelf turkey with this gimmicky, poorly conceived comedy.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    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?

  • Caryn James, New York Times

    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.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    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.

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    Remember when Martin Short was funny?

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Jeff "


    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… More

  • Lucas M


    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.

  • James A


    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.

  • Curtis L


    This was back when Martin Short was kinda funny, and didn't make me want to rip his larynx out. It was pretty good if I can recall, like how he makes their plane crash land so they can go to Dinosaur land.

  • Lafe F


    A hilarious black comedy where Martin Short plays "Clifford", one of the naughtiest boys in the world. It's hilarious, seeing him acting like a freaky child; I love the demented look he gets on his face when he's scheming his next prank. He does many bad things… More

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