30
Give 'em a handicap for making a 20-minute man go 90--still, it's not enough.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
70
Los Angeles Times by Carina Chocano
A giddy, gassy piece of lunatic fluff that recounts Jiminy's rise to fame. In interviews, Short has described Glick as a moron with power, and in Jiminy Glick in Lalawood, he takes us back to the early days, when he was merely a moron.
70
While it isn't surprising that improv gods Short and fellow SNL vet Jan Hooks, as Glick's wife, Dixie, are brilliant, who knew that perennial onscreen good girl Elizabeth Perkins, playing here a has-been bitch-diva, could be so brittle and sexy?
40
Too often depends on salty, adolescent one-liners that provide shock value guffaws but grow cumulatively wearisome.
30
A film this slipshod needs much more star-power than it's able to muster.
67
Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman
In his curdled-butterball way, Jiminy Glick may be the most acidic showbiz send-up since Andy Kaufman's Tony Clifton. This movie, though it has its moments, is a pedestal he didn't need.
50
Rolling Stone by Peter Travers
Director Vadim Jean is lucky that his low-octane comedy is long on Short.
40
Dallas Observer by Robert Wilonsky
A tenth of a movie masquerading as a full feature.
40
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
An intermittently funny free-for-all that tries desperately to flesh out a television sketch into a feature-length movie.