Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

MartinHafer 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.

The_Film_Cricket 'Clifford' is like a bad dream. I'm not saying that to be cute, I mean there are moments in this movie that look, feel and play-out like they came right out of a nightmare. Part of the reason begins with Martin Short who plays a 10-year old brat, who doesn't look, talk, act or dress like any little boy that I have ever seen.The movie begins far in the future as Short plays an elderly man working in a home for unruly kids. He begins spinning his yarn to a rebellious kid about his own days as a little monster. Then we flash back to the present as makes life a living hell for his Uncle Martin (Charles Groden) Uncle Martin takes charge of little Clifford to show his fiancée that he likes children. Clifford wants to go to Los Angeles to a Dinosaur Amusement Park but Uncle Martin is too busy. So that brings about a series of endless, cruel gags that little Clifford plays on Grodin and everyone else. They are cruel jokes and gags involving hairpieces, face-lifts, strokes, bomb-threats etc.There are moments in this movie that are simply baffling. There is a scene in which Grodin's boss tries to sexually assault the fiancée in a scene that has no purpose and was (for me) disturbing.Getting back to Martin Short. I don't know what the thinking was here. Short wears a little red suit and a mop of red hair. He looks and acts like a dwarf on uppers. His dialogue consists of annoying little phrases like 'You're the bestest uncle in the whole world' I don't mind Martin Short, I liked him in films like 'Father of the Bride' and 'Innerspace' and I loved his SNL character Ed Grimley but here he is trapped in a character that is unhappy, ungainly, mean-spirited and embarrassing.The ending has Martin finally taking Clifford to that amusement park. He sets the kid on an run-away roller-coaster with bad special effects and cinematography that would be right at home in a George Romero movie. The payoff doesn't happen; the movie sets up this pointless scene then tries to justify it by ending with sentiment.What shocked me most was the closing scene, which goes back to the future with Short as the old man and closes with a smarmy piece of dialogue that would have us believe that what we have just witnessed was tender and sweet.I chose 'Clifford' as the worst film of the decade mostly because for days afterwards I was depressed. I think of the 90 minutes of my life that are now gone forever. Precious minutes that could have been used to further the course of my life in a positive way were wasted watching jokes about a hairpiece. I think I'm going to go cry now.

elshikh4 The movies of the genius troublemaker kid, or let's say the anti-Disney child, lived their own era during the first half of the 1990s. Starting with the massive success of (Home Alone - 1990) and (Problem Child - 1990). Then Hollywood's followers (Problem Child 2 - 1991), (Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - 1992), to suddenly recall an old TV series from the 1950s end to remake it in (Dennis the Menace - 1993). Before the decline of the matter into TV ones like (Problem Child 3 Junior in Love - 1995), there was another last flick : (Clifford) which was produced during the peak in 1991, but Orion's bankruptcy delayed the release.Unlike the Problem Child filthy movies, (Clifford) is nice fun. Choosing (Martin Short) as the title role was bold unpredictable move; it could've ruined the whole thing but on the contrary it didn't. He portrayed the devil in devilish way, making a smart irony, attracting more audience as he is more than hiring a kid in the first place; noticing that this opinion comes from one who's not originally one of his fans. (Charles Grodin) looked great as the wronged one (read : us in the events). The screenplay is wonderfully entertaining for both kids and grown-ups, yet I didn't understand how (Clifford) blew up the design by a cassette tape?, or why exactly (Grodin)'s character forgave him at the end?. But still small laughable movie with some witty moments and effluent pace. Maybe not explosive as some used to, maybe not filthy as some may like, but sure it's fast 90 minutes that leaves you longing for more.P.S : there is one clever point this movie made, that the super naughty kid could be the seed of ideal man someday.

hildegrl89 Clifford is one of the most hilarious movies I've ever seen. I think It's under rated and ashame that many people have not even heard of it, let alone seen it. The comedy in this movie is unlike any other. Though the ending of the movie is not really funny, the first hour makes it worth watching. Without Clifford, my life would not be the same. In fact, it would be incomplete. I hope everyone will experience the joy of watching Clifford. It is true that some people may find this movie stupid; however, i beg to differ. Martin Short is a genius in this movie. To not laugh during this movie would be a difficult and I dare say impossible task. I love Clifford with all of my heart!