REVIEW: Marty, Life is Short

Jennifer Green
May 8
1 min read

If you didn't already love Martin Short, you're going to after this loving profile, directed by longtime friend Lawrence Kasdan. Marty, Life is Short offers a close-up view of the actor's joy-infused and celebrity-filled life.

Marty has loved and been loved by a big, happy family and a wide group of lifelong friends (the fact that those friends include figures like Eugene Levy, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielbergand so on doesn't diminish their genuine mutual affection).

It's also a story about the contemporary history of comedy, particularly the troupe that came out of Canada's Second City and '70s and '80s-era Saturday Night Live, with Short as a through-line.

His life mottos could serve anyone well—ideas like tragedy happens, and it's up to each person how we choose to handle it, or not to live with regrets. He's said to "maintain the merry theme of life," and the home videos and clips certainly show a lot of merriness.

Marty is "good at life," a friend concludes. What a lovely way to be remembered, especially while still living that good life.