
In this dark comedy, a mischievous ten-year-old boy named Clifford is sent to his Uncle Martin's for the weekend to get out of his father's hair. It turns out he has a dying obsession to go to Dinosaur World, a theme park near Martin's house and nothing will get in his way to get there.... (Full plot summary below)
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In this dark comedy, a mischievous ten-year-old boy named Clifford is sent to his Uncle Martin's for the weekend to get out of his father's hair. It turns out he has a dying obsession to go to Dinosaur World, a theme park near Martin's house and nothing will get in his way to get there.
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| FulvueDrive-in.comChuck O'LearyOne can't help but laugh at Short's nutty rendition of an unctous little 10-year-old devil, and Grodin's angry reactions are equally funny as his increasingly exasperated uncle. |
| TV GuideTV Guide StaffA weird movie that could have stood to be weirder still. |
| Los Angeles TimesPeter RainerClifford, 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. |
| Austin ChronicleRobert FairesGrodin'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. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksClifford is the worst comedy since Captain Ron or Pure Luck or Cross My Heart... come to think of it, they all starred Martin Short, too. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelThe kid is obnoxious from start to finish, and the way he fantasizes about his uncle's girlfriend (Mary Steenburgen) is tasteless. |
| Common Sense MediaRenee SchonfeldWitless slapstick with leering, obnoxious man-child. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertClifford 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. |
| VarietyVariety StaffOrion serves up another long-on-the-shelf turkey with this gimmicky, poorly conceived comedy. |
| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarClifford 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. |