Clifford the Big Red Dog was born in a series of children’s books, the first of which was published in 1963. In the decades since, the adventures of the scarlet canine mascot-hero have been spun in…
was born in a series of children’s books, the first of which was published in 1963. In the decades since, the adventures of the scarlet canine mascot-hero have been spun into three popular PBS Kids TV series, a live musical, video games, and the 2004 animated feature “Clifford’s Really Big Movie,” which was adapted from one of the TV series .
If anything, the movie’s Clifford, who is every inch a genuine dog, is less overtly goofy than the PBS version. But have no fear: The movie, directed by Walt Becker , more than makes up for that restraint with its aggressively giddy tone of over-the-top wholesome vandalism — a tone born in the comedies of the 1980s that has never really gone away. Come to think of it, the tone has been around for longer than that.
In “Clifford,” the central character, Emily Elizabeth, is played by Darby Camp as a winsomely freckled, likably sincere sixth grader trying to cope with the wealthier mean-girl students in her elite Harlem private school; they call her “Food Stamp.
Emily finds Clifford, who starts off as an ordinary-size puppy, when she and Casey wander into a storybook rescue shelter run by Mr. Bridwell . Clifford winds up stowing away in her backpack, and a few days later she wakes up with his face hovering right over her; he is now, magically, as big as her bedroom.
Is there a smirky annoying villain cut from the satirical cloth of today’s headlines? Of course there is. His name is Tieran , and he’s a greedy control-freak tech entrepreneur who is trying to grow and market genetically modified oversize food; he spies Clifford, sees a gold mine , and bogusly claims that the dog escaped from his laboratory.
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