Clifford (1994)

Too much of everything

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Clifford (Martin Short) is an obnoxious child who is making his parents' lives a living hell. To get a break, they send him to his uncle (Charles Grodin) to stay for the weekend. There, Clifford torments the uncle...and audiences with his antics."Clifford" is one of those incredibly ill-conceived films that makes you wonder who thought this would be a good idea in the first place. Imagine making a film very much like "Problem Child" but with an adult inexplicably playing the kid and you have "Clifford". Rarely have I hated a film this much and the actors involved with it. The film never is funny but is often cruel and unfunny. I have a hard time seeing how this film has an almost average rating, as there is literally nothing about the movie I liked.

I really, really like Clifford; it's so funny! I probably find it to be a lot funnier than others might whom really didn't like it so much. I watched it as a kid and was fond of it and still am. I love the Clifford character! Clifford is such a mischievously funny brat! Hahaha! I really love Martin Short and he makes the Clifford character so, so funny. C'mon now....Clifford is good. Taking a lighthearted approach to watching Clifford is the only way to watch it. It can really be unsavory and obnoxious if you take it the wrong way. It's a perverse make-believe. Clifford is completely cantankerous as it's nothing but wacky and foolishly silly the whole way through. It's wholly surrounded around its characters. Charles Grodin does a nice and funny job in bumping heads with Clifford. That seems pretty natural for those two, not necessarily in a hateful manner. Mary Steenburgen as Miss Sarah Davis brings a real sweetness to the movie. I think my ongoing crush with Mary Steenburgen started with Clifford. Dabney Coleman very well interacts with Steenburgen's character as he tries to woo her. Richard Kind as Clifford's dad was nice to see. I love Ben Savage in the beginning and end scenes when Clifford is a priest. Those scenes are really good. The Dinosaur World ending has overlying messages to it. Clifford is a deliberately honest story and a good outlet for potentially troublesome boys.

I love Clifford. It's always been one of my favorite comedies. If you don't understand this type of humor, well, I feel sorry for you. I do get it. My sister and I passed our love for this movie to my kids and they love it too. How can people say that Martin Short isn't a ten year old boy?? Duh, he's not! It's a character!!! I guess Mark Hamill isn't a Jedi...or Anthony Hopkins isn't a cannibalistic killer. It's a character, and a damn funny one at that! I feel so strongly about this; that this is the first review I've ever posted on here. I found out that is has to be ten lines or more, so I'm just filling space now.

I just watched this movie on TV and came here to see what other people think about it. I was very much shocked to see that the lead actor Martin Short was 40+ when this movie was made. He is playing a 10 year old brat in this movie and I got to say he has done very well at that. Though he doesn't quite look like a 10 year old but he surely comes close to it. This is a movie about a 10 year old boy, Clifford, who is very mischievous and raises hell everywhere he goes. Sick of his mischiefs, his parents leave him with his Uncle who is a middle-aged man and is trying to convince her fiancée that he likes kids and that's the reason why he agrees to keep Clifford with him. As the movie goes on, Clifford completely destroys his Uncle's life with his pranks because he didn't take him to the local Dinosaur Park. Although the ending wasn't the best but most of the movie is really good. This may not be the best movie you'll ever see but its a nice one to watch with your family. I think kids will really like it. It is really hilarious. I was very surprised to see the IMDb user rating for this movie being a moderate 4.2 and that's why I thought I should stand up for this movie. I think its far better than what the rating suggests.