Charming and harmless. Nap while your kid enjoys.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

So, how big is Clifford's Really Big Movie? Maybe too big for a toddler's britches.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 25, 2004

Some children might find Clifford's tale on the tame side, but at least as many parents will be happily surprised by the warm and cuddly tone.

| Apr 30, 2004

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 30, 2004

Clifford's Really Big Movie is easily consumed and disposed of entertainment for the small fry...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 28, 2004

The animation has cheap-and-fast written all over it. It's so chintzy, the characters look as if they've come straight from a box of Colorforms.

| Apr 26, 2004

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 23, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: B | Apr 23, 2004

When clapping broke out close to the end of Clifford's Really Big Movie -- the clapping of little hands, I might add, and not big ones -- it felt as spontaneous and as heartfelt an expression of youthful joy as I have heard in a long time.

| Apr 23, 2004

A slightly distended version of the television program, here voiced by some of the best actors in the animation business, including the late, great John Ritter in the title role.

| Apr 23, 2004

Modest in the best sense of the word, this traditional animated film adheres closely to the gentle, easygoing tone of the hugely popular PBS series.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2004

The messages are honest and not slathered. The characters are kind, amusing and, by now, quite familiar (author Norman Birdwell created Clifford and friends some 40 years ago).

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 23, 2004

Despite the movie's rather unoriginal story -- that age-old plot about running off to the join the circus -- at least the filmmakers have created something which, though a little bland, is never crass or vulgar.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2004

It's not dreadful, just dull.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 23, 2004

Though not exactly a gripping experience for adults, parents have reason to be grateful for a movie that has been so carefully tailored to preschool to first-grade sensibilities.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 22, 2004

Should delight most four-year-olds and won't torture parents (much) in the process.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 22, 2004

Unlike television cartoons that sell their souls to make the leap to the big screen, this animated G-rated film is faithful to Norman Bridwell's beloved book series about the big red dog.

| Original Score: B | Apr 22, 2004

Trades in easygoing humor to peddle its message of bigheartedness.

Full Review | Apr 22, 2004

The limited animation style looks static on the big screen and the movie is too long for its age group even at 75 minutes. (It was too long for my age group, too.)

Full Review | Original Score: C | Apr 22, 2004