Its not worthless but it is surely weird, with 15% more direction you could really have something here

| Apr 24, 2024

This movie almost could have been great, the bones of a cult classic are there but I still love it.

| Apr 24, 2024

Kids don't want to see an adult parodying a kid (they don't get the joke) but I laughed like a freak.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 29, 2024

There's Short's ability to milk moments for everything they're worth, giving the part his all, and such enthusiasm supports the endeavor through some incredibly iffy ideas.

| Original Score: B | Sep 21, 2020

The kid is obnoxious from start to finish, and the way he fantasizes about his uncle's girlfriend (Mary Steenburgen) is tasteless.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 28, 2018

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.

| Dec 28, 2018

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.

| Dec 28, 2018

Short's bizarre casting is the only reason for Clifford to exist. Aside from that, this is an unimaginative, ill-begotten comedy about a bad little boy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 28, 2018

Hamstrung by a script that is neither funny nor fanciful enough, Clifford just sits on the screen, as flat as last week's seltzer.

| Dec 28, 2018

Whether he is pretending to be angelic or flashing satanic looks, Short makes Clifford an often riotous comic creation. And Grodin, with his fussy airs, makes a perfect fall guy.

| Dec 28, 2018

Worthless from start to finish, Clifford is a supreme disaster -- a film that neither Short, Grodin nor Steenburgen will be adding to their resumes.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Dec 28, 2018

Witless slapstick with leering, obnoxious man-child.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 28, 2013

A weird movie that could have stood to be weirder still.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 8, 2008

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

| Jan 8, 2008

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?

| Jan 8, 2008

A hellish, horrible experience wasting the talents of all involved.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/5 | Jul 29, 2007

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 3, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2005

One to cross off your CV Marty

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | May 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 3, 2005