History Film / Clifford

* CompanionCube: Stephen

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Martin gives a blistering one to Clifford after [[spoiler: rescuing him from the Larry the Scary Rex ride]].

-->'''Martin Daniels''': ''(pushes Clifford away as he tries to hug him)'' ''NO!'' ''''NO!'''' Clifford, don't... I don't want to hug you. I can't imagine ''anyone'' ever wanting to hug you!

-->'''Martin Daniels''': You really are sorry? You know ''sorrow'' is a ''human'' emotion, and as we know, you are ''NOT'' a human boy. You're just, this... this '''destructive''' thing and eventually everyone just gets to ''hate'' you!

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Martin gives a blistering one to Clifford after [[spoiler: rescuing him from the Larry the Scary Rex ride]].

'''Martin Daniels''': (pushes Clifford away as he tries to hug him) ''NO!'' ''''NO!'''' Clifford, don't... I don't want to hug you. I can't imagine ''anyone'' ever wanting to hug you!
'''Clifford Daniels''': But I really am sorry...
'''Martin Daniels''': You really are sorry? You know ''sorrow'' is a ''human'' emotion, and as we know, you are ''NOT'' a human boy. You're just, this... this '''destructive''' thing and eventually everyone just gets to ''hate'' you!

* EverythingSBetterWithDinosaurs: Dinosaur World, a park full of animatronic dinos.

Not to be confuse with [[CliffordTheBigRedDog the large red dog of the same name]].

* DodgyToupee: Lampshaded with Gerald Ellis and Clifford somehow notices it when they first meet. Also, said toupee gets tossed from a moving vehicle after Sarah supposedly ripped it off by pushing him away. Prior to Martin doing his presentation, he notices his boss with a toupee with a ponytail.

* TimeShiftedActor: Averted.

** When Clifford first met Mr. Ellis, he says "My that's the bestest looking wig I've ever seen!"

** The hairstyles of the attendees of that party Clifford was throwing.

The movie was a critical flop, with critics pointing out that it was [[DudeNotFunny hardly amusing]]. As Creator/RogerEbert put it, little Clifford is beyond your standard UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: "mean, vindictive, spiteful and cruel. So hateful that if a real little boy had played him, the movie would be like ''Film/TheOmen'' filtered through ''Film/TheGoodSon''." Several of the attempts at humor were disturbing instead. In one throwaway scene, Sarah is sexually assaulted by Martin's boss. If it was [[BlackComedyRape meant to be funny]], few laughed at it.

While not a ''CreatorKiller'' in itself, the film contributed to the financial problems of nearly-bankrupt Orion Productions. Orion had had three major box office hits in the 1990s: ''DancesWithWolves'', ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' and the first ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' adaptation. The first two failed to cover the debt Orion had acquired because of a long string of 1980s box office bombs. The third film hardly helped the company, as Orion foolishly sold part of the distribution rights to Creator/{{Paramount}}. By 1994, many of Orion's most prominent executives, directors and actors had left the studio. After a few years operating as a ghost of itself, the company was sold to MetroGoldwynMayer in 1998. Today, most of its productions between 1978-1982 belong to the [[WarnerBros Time Warner Company]], most of its productions between 1982 and 1998 belong to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

* DinnerWithTheBoss: While Martin is in San Francisco, he notices Sarah having a romantic dinner of sorts with their boss Gerald Ellis, which looks to be a little...romantic.

* TheEighties: The hairstyles of the attendees of that party Clifford was throwing and in the scene where Clifford eats breakfast, the Pepsi can had the pre-1992 logo given the fact that this movie was actually filmed in 1990.

The movie was a critical flop, with critics pointing out that it was [[DudeNotFunny hardly amusing]]. As RogerEbert put it, little Clifford is beyond your standard UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: "mean, vindictive, spiteful and cruel. So hateful that if a real little boy had played him, the movie would be like ''TheOmen'' filtered through ''TheGoodSon''." Several of the attempts at humor were disturbing instead. In one throwaway scene, Sarah is sexually assaulted by Martin's boss. If it was [[BlackComedyRape meant to be funny]], few laughed at it.

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: In an initial show of affection for his nephew, stages for Sarah's eyes, Martin calls him "Clinton." Said nephew has to remind him that the name is "Clifford."

* TimeShiftedActor: Averted '''hard'''.

While not a ''CreatorKiller'' in itself, the film contributed to the financial problems of nearly-bankrupt Orion Productions. Orion had had three major box office hits in the 1990s: ''DancesWithWolves'', ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs'' and the first ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' adaptation. The first two failed to cover the debt Orion had acquired because of a long string of 1980s box office bombs. The third film hardly helped the company, as Orion foolishly sold part of the distribution rights to {{Paramount}}. By 1994, many of Orion's most prominent executives, directors and actors had left the studio. After a few years operating as a ghost of itself, the company was sold to MetroGoldwynMayer in 1998. Today, most of its productions between 1978-1982 belong to the [[WarnerBros Time Warner Company]], most of its productions between 1982 and 1998 belong to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

* TimeShiftedActor: Averted '''hard'''.