We start part 1 of this week’s theme “Charles Grodin, I love your work!” with the bonkers “Clifford” where 37 year old Martin Short plays a 10 year old problem child. Wow.
-MovieBitches (Avaryl & Andrew)
References In This Episode:
Mean Girls
Pure Luck
The Woman In Red
So I Married An Axe Murderer
Dennis The Menace
Boys Town
The Princess Bride
Problem Child 2
Airplane!
Father of Bride
The Simpsons
Jurassic Park 3
San Fransisco
Spaceballs
Man of La Mancha
American Dreamz
The Notebook
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In general I don't like movies with dogs, but I was just watching this Icelandic movie on criterion channel last night called Godland that came out earlier this year and I think it has some of the best dog acting I've ever seen.
Also clearly I was among those who always thought this movie was about the red dog lol
Boys Town is one of if not my favourite black and white film! That would be such an interesting retro review.
I feel like not enough people know about the Dabney Coleman movie Short Time.
I will not be checking this out but I did get quite a few laughs from the cuts you guys pulled so thank you
Sadly no one wants to go to San Francisco these days and if that's not sad enough I don't remember this movie at all.
camp = strong + wrong
I don't think it's mean it's honest.
Imagine if Steve Martin played Charles Grodin's character…
yeah dont know his name but looking at younger pictures of him, definitely know that face. and looking at his imdb: incredible shrinking woman, great muppet caper, so i married an axe murderer, dave, (i guess beethoven but i dont remember the movie just remember its about a dog)
cant disagree more. "how it should be" uhm no the animated film is how it should be cause THAT IS THE GAME! great animation, fun, funny, cute, colorful, paid homage and respect to the source material. very little to complain about (mostly chris pratt and the lack of luigi)
I'm so old, I first discovered Charles Grodin as a child watching "King Kong" (1976 version). He was also fun to watch when he appeared on Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show" during the 1970s and 1980s. There may be YT clips of some of those appearances.
Great review as always, and great confusion on why this got made, as always. I've been digging through IMDB and other sources just to try and figure out WHY they had an adult play a 10-year old. What was the purpose? I cannot find answers. Help.
Honestly I wished the movie had gone full bonkers, I was kinda expecting and hoping that maybe Clifford is a dog (Clifford the big red dog) and gets turned into a human for a week or maybe he is actually a dinosaur child who got turned into a human adult and that's why he is obsessed with dinosaurs because he wants to be with his kind?
Bit like Airplane meets The Thirteenth Year meets Jurassic Park with some Lynchian elements in there would have been a camp masterpiece.
Andrew looks so done in the thumbnail 😂
Love Charles Grodin who I first learned about from his Letterman interviews of which there are many many hours. Speaking of Letterman regulars, I wouldn’t be mad at a Teri Garr season. Or Chris Elliott week even?
OMGGGGG I LOVE CLIFFORD!!!!!!
I loved Heart and Soul! Can't wait for the review
Umm are you guys doing The Great Muppet Caper??
My childhood introduction to drag: Jethrine from The Beverly Hillbillies
I just love how surreal a lot of these comedies were back then. Just unafraid to go into an entirely different universe, where human beings are basically aliens who look like us.
I mostly remember Charles Grodin from his appearances on David Letterman in the 80s and 90s. They had an ongoing gag where he was super cranky and irate whenever he was on. Sort of like when Paul Rudd goes on Conan and shows clips of Mac and Me.
I'm getting very "Jamie Lee Curtis saying trauma" vibes from the dinosaur pronunciation.
PLEASE retro review So I Married An Axe Murderer <3 I love that movie, everyone on the planet needs to know about "Woman! Whoa, man! Woooooooman!"
If you two haven't seen Seems Like Old Times you have to check it out! Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase reunite in another romcom with Charles Grodin!! I consider it a spiritual successor to Foul Play.
Oh my god PLEASE do So I Married An Axe Murderer!
Clifford is one of my favorite comedies!
I LOVE Avaryl's pants!!
My high school teacher wrote the original script to this movie and I remember talking to him about it. So I can offer some vague insights into what it was. Here's my memory: He said he was really proud of the original script. After Problem Child became a huge hit, Orion (I think) bought his script and made it to capitalize on the success. He wrote for SCTV alongside the director and Marty (he called Martin Short Marty). So someone got the idea it'd be funny to have Martin Short play a child, and they started rewriting the whole thing around that premise. And I think Martin Short started injecting a bunch of stuff in he thought would be funny… My teacher was pretty disappointed because he thought the original script was one of the stronger things he'd written. So yeah all the stuff with the house on the cliff etc, were as you said, probably remnants of the original script. I wish I knew more.
Look at me like a real human boy!! ❤❤
watched it last night. i was not prepared for how insane this movie is
Halloween (1978?) retro review?