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NUMBERS
Box Office: $8,308,230
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CONSENSUS
The talent involved can't save a script that has nowhere to go with its promising premise.
CAST & CREW
Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener
Directed by Danny DeVito
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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. more...
MPAA RATING
R, for language and sexual references
RUNTIME
2 hours, 23 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Mar 29, 2002
Video: Sep 17, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Warner Bros.
GENRE
Comedies, Politics, Television, Affairs, Television Personalities, Television Shows
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Death to Smoochy Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
NEWS ARTICLES
LINKS
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Compared to Sorority Boys ... this is high comedic art."
-- Victoria Alexander, FILMSINREVIEW.COM
 "The punch lines that miss, unfortunately, outnumber the hits by three-to-one. But Death to Smoochy keeps firing until the bitter end."
-- Todd Anthony, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"A twisted collision of "Barney" "The Fisher King" and "Serpico.""
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
"There are some laughs in this movie, but Williams' anarchy gets tiresome, the satire is weak."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Collapses under its own meager weight."
-- Bob Aulert, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
"This kind of dark comedy requires a delicate, surgical touch. But director Danny DeVito and screenwriter Adam Resnick (remember Cabin Boy?) just pound away."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"... instead go rent "Shakes The Clown", a much funnier film with a similar theme and an equally great Robin Williams performance."
-- Larry Carroll, COUNTINGDOWN.COM
"Throw Smoochy from the train!"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"What's not to like about a movie with a 'children's' song that includes the line 'My stepdad's not mean, he's just adjusting'?"
-- Rose 'Bams' Cooper, 3BLACKCHICKS REVIEW
"DeVito and Resnick revive an old joke with such venomous verve that it feels freshly wicked."
-- Michael Dequina, MR. BROWN'S MOVIES
"A dark comedy that goes for sick and demented humor simply to do so. The movie is without intent."
-- Mark Dujsik, MARK REVIEWS MOVIES
"The result is a gaudy bag of stale candy, something from a Halloween that died."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"Funny in a sick, twisted sort of way."
-- David Frese, KANSAS CITY STAR
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"Weird, vulgar comedy that's definitely an acquired taste."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"It 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."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"A rude black comedy about the catalytic effect a holy fool has upon those around him in the cutthroat world of children's television."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"The sinister inspiration that fuelled DeVito's early work is confused in Death to Smoochy into something both ugly and mindless."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"Helmer DeVito...attempts to do too many things in this story about ethics, payola, vice, murder, kids’ TV and revenge."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"The film keeps rattling around too much in search of a
zinger that never arrives."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Less funny than it should be and less funny than it thinks it is."
-- Duane Dudek, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"A living testament to the power of the eccentric and the strange. The fact that it isn't very good is almost beside the point."
-- Curtis Edmonds, TXREVIEWS.COM
"Uneven performances and a spotty script add up to a biting satire that has no teeth."
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES
"Instead of a witty expose on the banality and hypocrisy of too much kid-vid, we get an ugly, mean-spirited lashing out by an adult who's apparently been forced by his kids to watch too many Barney videos."
-- Jack Garner, ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE
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ROTTEN 12%
Avg. Rating: 4.2/10 |
"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."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"Like a can of 2-day old Coke. You can taste it, but there's no fizz."
-- James Berardinelli, JAMES BERARDINELLI'S REELVIEWS
"In all the annals of the movies, few films have been this odd, inexplicable and unpleasant."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"Death to Smoochy tells a moldy-oldie, not-nearly -as-nasty -as-it- thinks-it-is joke. Over and over again."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Death to Smoochy is often very funny, but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of DeVito's misanthropic vision."
-- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
"A loud, ugly, irritating movie without any of its satirical salvos hitting a discernible target."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"This is a particularly toxic little bonbon, palatable to only a chosen and very jaundiced few."
-- Ann Hornaday, WASHINGTON POST
"The script boasts some tart TV-insider humor, but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy."
-- Loren King, BOSTON GLOBE
"The comedy Death to Smoochy is a rancorous curiosity: a movie without an apparent audience."
-- Liam Lacey, GLOBE AND MAIL
"In Death to Smoochy, we don't get Williams' usual tear and a smile, just sneers and bile, and the spectacle is nothing short of refreshing."
-- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
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"Much like Robin Williams, Death to Smoochy has already reached its expiration date."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Death to Smoochy" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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