Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Vadim Jean

Writers (WGA):

Martin Short (character)
Martin Short (written by) ...

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

How a legend was born.

Plot:

Culture critic Jiminy Glick gets tied up in a murder case at the Toronto Film Festival.

Plot Keywords:

Sex | Toronto Ontario | Television | Inside Joke | Twins

Cast

Martin Short	...	Jiminy Glick / David Lynch
Jan Hooks	...	Dixie Glick
Linda Cardellini	...	Natalie Coolidge
Janeane Garofalo	...	Dee Dee
John Michael Higgins	...	Andre Devine
Elizabeth Perkins	...	Miranda Coolidge
Larry Joe Campbell	...	Haygood Lewkin
Mo Collins	...	Sharon
DeRay Davis	...	Mario 'FA REAL' Greene
Carlos Jacott	...	Barry King
Corey Pearson	...	Ben DiCarlo
Aries Spears	...	Gunnar 'MC GUN' Jorge
Robert Trebor	...	Jay Schiffer
Gary Anthony Williams	...	Randall Bookerton
Landon Hansen	...	Matthew Glick

MPAA:

Rated R for language and crude sexual content.

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:M | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company:

Gold Circle Films

Trivia:

The film was released shortly after Martin Short's Comedy Central series "Primetime Glick" (2001) was canceled.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Jiminie and Dixie are opening the window to climb out, the window slides down a little. But from the outside shot, its completely open, and then in the next interior shot, its slid down again.

Quotes:

Jiminy Glick: Oprah Winfrey, how do you do what you do so consistantly?
Whoopi Goldberg: I stomp on everyone I can
Jiminy Glick: And you're despised by so many. But not by me.
Whoopi Goldberg: I live for that. And remember to spell my name right. O-P-E-R-A

Movie Connections:

References Sophie's Choice (1982)

Soundtrack:

What Cha Got

Good TV Show... Awful Terrible Horrible Travesty of a Movie...

Jimminy Glick is a funny TV show in my opinion based on the few episodes of it I have seen. But this movie was unbelievably pathetic. The guy playing the foreign boyfriend/producer character was so over the top it was pathetic. Marin Short was okay but Jan Hooks was wasted as his wife. The kids were pointless. The only reason I give this 2 instead of 1 out of 10 are the few kind-of-sort-of funny moments that happen while he is interviewing real celebrities. They seem like genuine improvised funny moments, and the extras at the end of the movie while the credits happen (outtakes from these interviews) were also pretty funny. I think that's the real problem with the movie. The reason the TV show is often so funny is because of these unscripted interviews where he and the celebrities make each other laugh. When you put him in a movie with a script and plot it's not funny, at least this movie isn't funny, maybe if the script or idea for the movie were funny at all.... I just hope there is no sequel.