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

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

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.

| May 20, 2003

Grodin'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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 1, 2000

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.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Remember when Martin Short was funny?

| Jan 1, 2000

Once you've gotten past the gimmick, the film falls short.

| Original Score: D | Apr 1, 1994