good back-story, and good acting

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

I like Martin Short. I like everything about him. I think he's a great singer and entertainer, he's smart, he's lovable, and he's apparently very funny because he's always cracking up the cast and behind camera crew. He and his style appeal to me, and I just like him.But this movie just isn't funny. And Glick isn't funny. Short tries to carry Glick with the same funny speech patterns that carried Ed Grimley...(in low voice) "I'm as doomed as doomed could be, ya' know." Grimley and Glick use similar speech patterns. But that's not enough to carry this character or this movie.Short says in the DVD commentary that they improvised most scenes with no or very little script, though his commentary partner calls him on that and disagrees with him and insists there was a script. Now that's funny. But anyway, as the Beatles learned when filming "Magical Mystery Tour," hoping that people will be naturally funny and interesting doesn't work. You have to put some hard work and long hours into a polished script to get anything worth shooting. This movie (if there really was no script) again affirms that truth.This movie features a lot of vulgar material and I think that was a big mistake. The larger plot and story and comedy style would have appealed to young people and families and Short sacrificed that entire viewing audience for the coarse material and it really doesn't add anything. I guess Short felt an R rating was what was needed at this point in his career.Very little in this movie works. The boyfriend/manager character was the only one that was funny, yes he was over the top but at least he was actually somewhat funny. Glick is best when Hollywood celebrity Short shows through the character while giving a good natured ribbing to Hollywood giants like Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, and Kurt Russel (Hanks does not appear in this movie but Glick has interviewed him elsewhere to great results). The interviews that Glick does with Martin and Russel, and especially the deleted outtake footage of those interviews are the only thing that works in this movie.The production and story were much bigger than what I expected. The plot explanation at the end is pretty good, creative, outlandish, unexpected, and funny. There's a part that was scripted. The movie has good production values, but what it needed was a script that actually contained some jokes.

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.

Martin Short is somewhat of an acquired taste. His form of comedy contains traits described as exaggeratedly precocious, infinitely preposterous, and pseudo-intellectual. For most comedians, this combination would be so volatile as to render the comedy itself, moot. Short, however, pulls it off. He shines as the star, but only to those few who can appreciate his particular "flavor" of comedy.This movie, Jiminy Glick, on the surface seems superficial and fun, and if that's all you got out of it, then go on your blissful way and tell your friends about this wonderfully funny, FUN movie. But in many deeper ways, the niche audience seems rather ambiguous in that not everyone cares about the goings on in Hollywood, its stars, the key players, and the inner workings of the "industry." Such is the subject of this film.Glick is one of those unfortunate men who missed out on their calling in life to be gay, married a schizophrenic, fathered carbon copies of himself, and remained in the relationship although it was doomed to be life in Hell. He catapults from Hollywood obscurity into the limelight by sleeping through a wretched movie and then glamorizing it in his review. It may be scary, but I can actually see that scenario working out this way, in life.I really enjoyed the movie, and Short's dual role. I bought this mainly for Steve Martin, but ended up loving it for Short's performance. If you liked Clifford, The Jerk, or Superstar, you should also give this one a shot. Don't miss the lovely outtakes which run as the credits begin to roll. Kurt Russell in tears of laughter was a thing to behold.It rates a 7.3/10 from...the Fiend :.

If Jiminy Glick was interviewing Martin Short after seeing this movie, it might go something like this:JG: "Bobby Short…,why did you change your name from Martin?" MS:"No…Bobby Short is someone else. A singer actually. African American. " JG: "That was going to be my next question. Were you inspired by Jacko to bleach your skin? Do you feel white is the new black?"MS: "I'm not Bobby Short. I'm Martin Short. I was born Martin Short." JG:(A patronizing pat on Martin's knee) "Work it out on your own time, dear. Now, about this movie of yours---I JUST LOVED IT. 'Jiminy Glick…' searching his memory—-looks down at his cheat-sheet-—'In LaLaWood!' It's sad and funny. Bittersweet, without much substance and a threadbare story who's sole purpose is to hang little bits of comic business with a few interviews thrown in. Not a very good movie, BUT I LOVED IT! Bobby, thanks for being yewww."MS: "It's Martin. You know, I've always wanted to put Jiminy Glick in a feature—"JG:"No time, dear. We have to move on."