BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

richspenc Clifford is a dreadful film. The first real problem is taking an almost middle aged man and passing him off as a ten year old. Seriously? Get this, we (the audience) see a 40 year old but the other movie characters see a ten year old. Yeh. Then they angle the camera to make him look a foot shorter than all of the "real" grownups around him. The next major problem is the other characters in the movie. Major annoying over-actors, always yelling everything they say in such a strained, exaggerated, draining way, especially Clifford's dad Richard Kind, Clifford's uncle Charles Grodin, and other characters in the movie. Clifford himself also took part in the exaggerated yelling along with other horrible qualities he had. Richard Kind can't handle his son's behavior anymore and begs his brother Grodin to take him, then when Grodin says yes, Richard shows the utmost relief. It doesn't take too long though for Grodin to feel the same way Richard did. Then there's a big problem with Clifford himself (played by Martin Short). Even if he wasn't playing a boy, he is a creepy freak. He (as Roger Ebert put it) fawns at people like a horny spaniel. Especially Charles Grodin's (Clifford's uncle's) wife. He sings in a loud, embarrassing way in public. Several times (such as screeching "San Francisco, open your Golden gate" at the top of his lungs then yelling in a high pitched feminine voice "ahhhhhhh" while running through the train station with his arms out. Very painful experience watching that). Also, Clifford is maliciously evil and vindictive. He literally shuts off a commercial airplane's engines causing it to quickly drop 10,000 feet nearly crashing (who finds that amusing?). He plots an elaborate scheme to frame Grodin for planting a bomb. He freaks out mischievously several times such as yelling "I want a whole gang of chocolate!" after Grodin says he can't take him to Dinosaur world. He had a freaked obsession with wanting to go to Dinosaur world, which is actually the reason he shut off the plane's engines. You would think him doing that would cause him more than just being thrown off the plane, he should've been locked up, he seriously endanged a couple hundred people's lives. And then there's the way Clifford talks, with the looks on his face, it made me cringe (and that's bad enough without him saying things like "my no-no place" and many other embarrassing things) Then, if that's not all enough, there are some awful jokes thrown in, such as a couple of transvestites showing up right after a character says "I can spot a phony a mile away". Terrible, terrible movie.There was only one moment of the film that wasn't horrible, only one semi amusing moment. Clifford kept saying all throughout the film " bestest looking this" or "bestest looking that" about something or someone. When Clifford was hanging from a ledge during a roller coaster accident, and was asking Grodin to save him, Grodin says "I'm trying to figure what horrors you'll release into the world if I do save you. What if you got your hands on plutonium? (Imitating Clifford) look at me! I made the bestest looking nuclear bomb in the whole world!" That was the one funny moment in a film of every, and I mean every other moment being horrid. Even with that one funny bit, I still only gave this film one star. Without it, I would've given it a zero.

tbills2 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.

funkysmith-686-215484 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.

paramindsoftware This is one of my favorite movies. I am longtime SCTV fan, in fact, it's my favorite show. Still, I think this movie works on a level outside the initial viewing and comparison to usual movies. The character Clifford is the archetypal prankster child that has probably lived in all of us. You can look at it in a Jungian psychological way -- Clifford has the Trickster archetype in full swing. He's also an example of the Fruedian Id without a Superego. When I first watched it, I didn't think it was that great, in fact, you might even say that I can understand why others gave it a lower rating. But when you look at the larger forces at play in the movie, it may become very enjoyable.