Death to Smoochy

Death to Smoochy

Guaranteed to please anyone who thinks Barney is Satan's spawn, Death to Smoochy mines comedy gold by skewering children's television. Adam Resnick's easy-target satire blossoms under the demented influence of director-costar Danny DeVito, who honors his legacy of venom-laced humor with the raucous rivalry of scandalized former kid-show host Rainbow Randolph (Robin Williams) and his squeaky-clean replacement, Sheldon Mopes, a.k.a. Smoochy the Rhino (Edward Norton). Randolph is insanely obsessed with getting his job back, but Smoochy's a smash, and their war for kid-vid supremacy places a jaded "KidNet" producer (Catherine Keener) in the middle of a Rainbow/Rhino smackdown. A few lulls are easily forgiven since much of Death to Smoochy is laugh-out-loud hilarious, with DeVito, Robert Prosky, Jon Stewart, and Harvey Fierstein in choice supporting roles. It's no wonder DeVito's taboo-busting drew fire from family groups and actual kid-show producers; only the humorless would fail to laugh at Smoochy's uncompromised irreverence. --Jeff Shannon

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Production: Warner Bros. Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
38
Rotten Tomatoes:
42%
R
Year:
2002
109
$8,308,230
Website
4,446 Views
Get ready for an unexpected hit.
He's Big, He's Blue, He's Smoochy... and He's got to DIE!
It's the Rhino vs. the Wino... with a little help from the mob

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