Jiminy Glick in Lalawood
Metascore
41 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 19
  3. Negative: 6 out of 19
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  1. USA Today
    Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    75
    The improvised dialogue has a no-holds-barred quality that can hit or miss. But when it hits, it can be hysterical.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    70
    While it isn't surprising that improv gods Short and fellow SNL vet Jan Hooks, as Glick's wife, Dixie, are brilliant, who knew that perennial onscreen good girl Elizabeth Perkins, playing here a has-been bitch-diva, could be so brittle and sexy?
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Carina Chocano
    70
    A giddy, gassy piece of lunatic fluff that recounts Jiminy's rise to fame. In interviews, Short has described Glick as a moron with power, and in Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, he takes us back to the early days, when he was merely a moron.
  4. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    67
    In his curdled-butterball way, Jiminy Glick may be the most acidic showbiz send-up since Andy Kaufman's Tony Clifton. This movie, though it has its moments, is a pedestal he didn't need.
  5. Premiere
    Reviewed by: Kevin Allison
    63
    Martin Short is so odd that apparently, neither he nor the film industry know what to do about it. In a way, Jiminy Glick in La La Wood is both a fictional riff on this very fact and hard proof of it.
  6. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: D. W. Smith
    60
    Short does a good job playing Lynch but this whole Lynch thing might have played funnier ten years ago.
  7. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    50
    Director Vadim Jean is lucky that his low-octane comedy is long on Short.
  8. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    50
    One of that film's funniest performers, John Michael Higgins, is on hand as a maniacal European celebrity handler who keeps swearing, "I am no homoist."
  9. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Stephen Cole
    50
    The film has enough laughs to stock a 90-minute entertainment. Unfortunately it throws out enough material to fill five comedies. And most of the jokes die in silence, throwing off a flop-sweat tsunami that carries away Short's best work.
  10. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    50
    Isn't really a satire of Hollywood so much as a chance for Short's wealthy showbiz buddies (Steve Martin, Kurt Russell, Kevin Kline, Whoopi Goldberg) to poke very gentle fun at themselves and stick it to the press.
  11. Dallas Observer
    Reviewed by: Robert Wilonsky
    40
    A tenth of a movie masquerading as a full feature.
  12. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    40
    An intermittently funny free-for-all that tries desperately to flesh out a television sketch into a feature-length movie.
  13. Variety
    Reviewed by: Eddie Cockrell
    40
    Too often depends on salty, adolescent one-liners that provide shock value guffaws but grow cumulatively wearisome.
  14. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    38
    Jiminy Glick needs definition if he's to work as a character. We have to sense a consistent comic personality, and we don't; Short changes gears and redefines the character whenever he needs a laugh.
  15. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    30
    Where else are you going to find an extended riff on the weird, weird world of David Lynch movies, an homage to "The Shining" and flatulence gags in the same place?
  16. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    30
    A film this slipshod needs much more star-power than it's able to muster.
  17. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Darren Reidy
    30
    Give 'em a handicap for making a 20-minute man go 90--still, it's not enough.
  18. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    25
    What Short does not deserve - and neither do we - is a feature-length movie about Jiminy.
  19. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Desson Thomson
    20
    Never was this funny a comedian in this horrible a movie.

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5.2 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 5 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 3
  3. Negative: 1 out of 3
  1. ClaytonL.
    8
    This movie is seriously underrated. Anybody at first glance will think it be a corny movie but Marin Short pulls out some gems. Martin Short is hilarious.… Full Review »
  2. GaryB.
    0
    The TV show is horrible, and I'm pretty sure it's been cancelled, it's barely on in reruns on Comedy Central. Martin Short has only had one funny moment in career, ever since then he's just been annoying the crap out of people. So how was this movie financed? No idea. But I do know that it won't even make back the money it cost to make this idiotic film.… Full Review »
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