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Summary: Death to Smoochy really really ...
Review: This was easily for me the most dissapointing and embarrassing movie I have ever seen. I saw the commercials. I saw an interview with Danny Devito when he said, "Death to Smoochy is a mix of Barney and Pulp Fiction," and you bet I kicked myself ... when I bought it. I truly believed I was going to see that mix and was very interested. Not only the statement that Danny Devito made, but also the great cast of Edward Norton and Robin Williams. These are probably one of the best actors of today, but what this movie made me realize is that great actors don't always make great descisions. To begin with, the main character, Edward Norton's character, was the most annoying main character I've seen in a movie. He wasn't so annoying that it made him funny, he was so annoying that he was.....well, annoying. The writers tried to make the annoyingness into laughter, but it just didn't work. I probably only laughed once in the movie and it was when Robin Williams sang a corny song. There were two things I remember clearly about what I didn't like also. I had hope that at least SOMETHING cool would happen in this boring movie. Like Edward Norton with a gun in his hand. I said to myself, "Ok, maybe it starts to get cool here." But before I knew it, Edward Norton's character says, Why am I doing this, this isn't right. Every single part I felt that it would start to be cool, something really stupid happens. The other clear memory I have about the movie is how embarrassed I was to take my girlfriend to a movie I had chosen and recommended. I was so embarrassed, I don't think I chose a movie after several other movie dates. So, if you think you are going to see a clever, funny and very dark humored movie with Death to Smoochy, are you in for a surprise. The most unfunny, embarrassing, and dissapointing movie in my life... well, except, of course, for Pamela and Tommy Lee's video.
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Summary: Aren't satires supposed to be smart?
Review: well, this one wasn't - i think the satire angle was played up more because the script was dumb, the plot was dumb, and the acting is dumb - hey let's make it a satire! Overall an embarassing effort all around.
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Summary: They could've done better than this!
Review: I rented this movie and for some reason I bought the piece of called Death to Smoochy! I watched it and started noticing how bad it was! What a mistake to buy this! ... Okay, let me tell you why I gave this 2 stars: Robin Williams was the only character I liked. Danny Devito and Jon Stewart are okay. As for the others, let's just say they did terribly. The guy who played the rhino was stupid and should have been killed, but of course, he becomes the main character once the girl goes to bed with him. The Irish mob would have been cool if they were also trying to kill Smoochy but they help him throughout the movie(who ..wants to help a a guy who dresses like a purple rhino for kids anyway?). If this movie didn't have all the bad language in it, it would have gotten a PG rating or even a G rating! Death to Smoochy is suppose to make fun of children's shows but all it does is support it. If someone is going to make another movie about the dark side of children's shows, it should be all of these: 1. Bad Language
2. Lots of violence
3. Dark humor
4. Robin William should star in it. He did a good job of playing the enraged Rainbow Randolph. (Okay, maybe not!)
5. A disturbing story telling that underneath those barney inspired costumes lies a sick, evil person with intent of harming children(After all, we're talking about a movie that makes fun of children's programs, right?) Death To Smoochy only had two of the listed requirements, bad language and Robin Williams. And a LITTLE bit of violence. If any directors out there are planning to make a children's shows parody with the above requirements, I'll be looking forward to it. Right now we're stuck with Death To Smoochy.
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Summary: missed big time
Review: I get what they were trying to do... the kiddy entertainment biz is filled with foul mouthed, violent and moblike people. Although parts of this movie are funny on their own, as a whole they missed by a long shot. Someone should have been brave enough to go back to the original shoot footage to edit in the connecting pieces... such a waste of the superior talent of Robin Williams, Edward Norton and Jon Stewart!
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Summary: SEIGE HEIL SMOOCHY!!!
Review: This movie was one of the better comedies I have seen this year. It is totally different than anything you will see anytime soon though. Robin Williams play Rainbow Randolph, a once beloved kids TV star. However he loses everything he is set up by the FBI in taking a suitcase full of money in exchange for letting certain children on his show. Edward Norton takes the role of Sheldon Mopes, aka Smoochy. He takes the country by storm when he is granted his own childrens television series on a NY childrens network, coincidentally in Rainbow Randolph's old time slot. As time passes by, though, not every one is falling in love with the rhino, as not only Rainbow Randolph wants him dead, but so does Smoochy's corrupt agent Danny DeVito. The plot twists range from an ex-boxer with the intelligence of a 5 year old playing Smoochy's cousin Moochy, to Smoochy performing at a Nazi rally. Seige heil Smoochy!!! Something totally different, a bit heavy on the language but Robin Williams carries it perfectly.
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Summary: Profanity isn't a substitute for humor
Review: The show had potential, but the writers seemed to be paid by the profane word. The jokes are weak, there is a total lack of parody, despite the potential from Pee-Wee Herman, and some others. This movie makes Cadillac Man and The Best of Times look good and they were BOMBS.
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Summary: Good actors, good idea, hideous execution
Review: Twenty bucks for this flick was a crime
'Cause honey, this ain't worth a dime
But just to be fair
I really don't care:
I just wish they'd refund me my time
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Summary: Boring and only mildly funny, 2 and a half stars
Review: "Death To Smoochy" is a murder comedy that has some decent preformances from both Edward Norton and Robin Williams, but failed to really keep my attention or interest. I only found it amusing during a few parts of the film. Most of the funnier parts I found were on the Additional Scenes segment of the DVD. Plus, the film wasn't as morbid as I had been lead to believe. The only thing really giving this movie its R rating was the bad language in the movie, not really the themes surrounding the movie. The whole "death" to Smoochy part of the movie really wasn't presented that well. I also found a lot of the characters in the film irritating and annoying and Catherine Keener just can't really play [an evil/cruel woman]. Her acting seemed more like faking when it came to the character she was trying to portray. Overall, the movie kind of dragged on and the climax to the movie wasn't really that exciting or interesting. I don't recommend it.
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Summary: This movie [is weak].
Review: ... It's not funny. Wastes Robin William's talent. Also, I wonder how the actors said all of those four letter words in front of all of the kids in the movie? The only storyline I enjoyed was the Irish mafia. ...
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Summary: the dark side of kiddie TV is excellent!!
Review: Robin Williams is great as "Rainbow Randolph", a kiddie entertainer who is caught by the FBI for taking kickbacks. His replacement is Smoochy, a large pink rhino played by an honest, cheerful guy named Sheldon who just wants to make kids happy. Randolph plans to take out a hit on the popular Smoochy, who has turned him into a has-been within a New York minute. Williams is hysterical as the obsessed, diabolical man who ironically works with kids. I laughed out loud several times watching him plot (and fail at) implementing various schemes to bring down Smoochy. The plot to plant an obscene-looking cookie for Smoochy to give to a child on live TV is both grotesque and ingenious. Ed Norton shines with his "gee whiz!" demeanor as he dances around in a rhino outfit. As Randolph yells to God in the middle of Times Square, after he has again been shoved aside for Smoochy, "What does it all MEAN?" What does it all mean, indeed? Just how crass it is to make money off kids, and the tripe we produce as entertainment (including some rather comical ice capades.) How the most innocent-seeming of industries is rife with jealousy, politics and greed. That it can all be the basis for a black comedy.
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