Compared to Sorority Boys ... this is high comedic art.
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03/27/02
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Death to Smoochy (2002)
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Reviews Counted:119
Fresh:50
Rotten:69
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: The talent involved can't save a script that has nowhere to go with its promising premise.
Theatrical Release:Mar 29, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $8,308,230
Synopsis: Robin Williams goes berserk as Rainbow Randolph, the disgraced host of a children's television show, in director Danny DeVito's fast-paced satire, DEATH TO SMOOCHY. Busted by the Feds for accepting... [More]
Starring: Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener, Danny DeVito
Director: Danny DeVito
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Reviews for Death to Smoochy
The cynicism is colossal, the casting superb: Norton may be the only actor alive who could pull off a character like Sherman, without making him either an idiot or a parody.
03/29/02
Top CriticThe punch lines that miss, unfortunately, outnumber the hits by three-to-one. But Death to Smoochy keeps firing until the bitter end.
03/29/02
A twisted collision of "Barney" "The Fisher King" and "Serpico."
04/04/02
There are some laughs in this movie, but Williams' anarchy gets tiresome, the satire is weak.
03/28/02
Weird, vulgar comedy that's definitely an acquired taste.
03/28/02
Collapses under its own meager weight.
03/29/02
Like a can of 2-day old Coke. You can taste it, but there's no fizz.
03/28/02
Top CriticIt is so refreshing to see Robin Williams turn 180 degrees from the string of insultingly innocuous and sappy fiascoes he's been making for the last several years.
03/28/02
This kind of dark comedy requires a delicate, surgical touch. But director Danny DeVito and screenwriter Adam Resnick (remember Cabin Boy?) just pound away.
03/29/02
A rude black comedy about the catalytic effect a holy fool has upon those around him in the cutthroat world of children's television.
03/29/02
... instead go rent "Shakes The Clown", a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great Robin Williams performance.
04/16/02
The sinister inspiration that fuelled DeVito's early work is confused in Death to Smoochy into something both ugly and mindless.
03/28/02
Helmer DeVito...attempts to do too many things in this story about ethics, payola, vice, murder, kids’ TV and revenge.
04/04/02
Throw Smoochy from the train!
03/28/02
DeVito and Resnick revive an old joke with such venomous verve that it feels freshly wicked.
04/09/02
Less funny than it should be and less funny than it thinks it is.
03/28/02
A dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so. The movie is without intent.
04/24/02
In all the annals of the movies, few films have been this odd, inexplicable and unpleasant.
03/29/02
Top CriticThe result is a gaudy bag of stale candy, something from a Halloween that died.
03/29/02
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January 05, 2006:
Jon Stewart to Host the Oscars!
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January 03, 2006:
Vincent Schiavelli Passes at 57
Character actor Vincent Schiavelli, the long-faced veteran of over 150 film and television appearances, died of lung cancer December 26 at home in Sicily. He was 57 years old. More...
February 25, 2002:
It should be noted that when 'black comedies' push the envelope too far, their subsequent box office suffers. Prime recent examples would be: Freddy Got Fingered, Very Bad Things, Whipped, and Jawbreaker. 
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February 06, 2002:
The working environment of the shoot may have been buoyant, but as DeVito points out, the film at times is anything but.
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