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Jiminy Glick in Lalawood

Starring: Martin Short, Jan Hooks, Elizabeth Perkins, Janeane Garofalo, Gary Anthony Williams

Directed by: Vadim Jean

RS: 2of 4 Stars

2005 MGM Comedy

For supersize laughs, try Martin Short in a fat suit as Jiminy Glick, the talk-show host from hell (actually, it's Butte, Montana). Based on the character Short created for Comedy Central, the film is hit-and-miss, with improvised dialogue and a tacked-on mystery plot with Short doing a dead-on impression of David Lynch. The rest is Jiminy, his wife, Dixie (Jan Hooks), and their sons, Matthew and Modine, visiting the Toronto Film Festival so Jiminy can ask rude questions to stars such as Steve Martin and Kurt Russell, and then fall asleep at their banal answers. Director Vadim Jean is lucky that his low-octane comedy is long on Short.