- Starring
- Jay Scherick, David Ronn, Blaise Hemingway
- Director
- Walt Becker
- Rating
- PG
- Genre
- Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
- Release date
- Nov 10, 2021
- Where to watch
- Netflix, Paramount+
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In Clifford The Big Red Dog, middle schooler Emily Elizabeth discovers a small red puppy who magically grows into a gigantic dog. As Clifford’s size attracts the attention of a genetics company aiming to supersize animals, Emily and her fun-loving but clueless Uncle Casey must protect Clifford. They embark on a thrilling adventure across New York City, learning valuable lessons about love and acceptance along the way.
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I only vaguely remember watching this movie.
The original picture books about Clifford the Big Red Dog had simple, straight-forward stories about a girl adopting a bright red puppy who was the runt of the litter, wishing he’d grow big and strong as she cared for him and doted on him, and getting her wish in a rather outrageous and whimsical way because her love and her wish caused him to grow until Clifford was taller than a house. It didn’t need to be anything more.
The movie version is hard for me to remember or connect to because it felt like I was watching the plot of three completely different movies stitched together in a tonally incoherent way that had little or nothing to do with the original book other than the presence of a bright red dog named Clifford who grows to a comically large size and his girl named Emily. It didn’t know whether it was meant to be a fairy tale that evoked a sense of wonder, a movie about a broken family adapting the best they could, or an irreverent comedy with inept bad guys. I’d rather have one good movie than three or four once-better movies cut up and stitched together in a way that doesn’t make much sense.
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