Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robin Williams starred in the underappreciated Death To Smoochy (Warner Bros./Film4) Odds are, Danny DeVito’s black comedy Death ...

“Death to Smoochy” starts out as such a deliciously savage satire of TV kiddie shows that it’s a shame it swerves out of control and over the top, sliding into tedium before pulling together for a ...

If you've been sleeping on Death to Smoochybecause of its 42% Rotten Tomatoes score, we're here to tell you to get over it and watch the movie. Maybe it's a truly "love it or hate it" cinematic ...

A bilious comedy set in the deceptively cheery world of children's TV, "Death to Smoochy" pushes its dark, smart, clever, cynical, satirical, nasty, provocative and sarcastic instincts to the point of ...

All the ingredients for a nasty dark comedy are present. But "Death To Smoochy" is a major letdown. While it never becomes a debacle, by the end it's nothing more than a squandered opportunity. All ...

DEATH TO SMOOCHY: Starring Robin Williams, Edward Norton and Catherine Keener. Directed by Danny DeVito. (R. 110 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "Death to Smoochy" is the Robin Williams movie for ...

Ed Norton makes the argument that Sheldon Mopes, from Death to Smoochy is quite similar to his Oscar-nominated character, Pete Seeger, from A Complete Unknown. Alix Earle says she's been on Lexapro ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Death to Smoochy is not about killing Barney the purple dinosaur. However, it is about killing A ...

You can feel desperation buzzing around Danny DeVito’s “Death to Smoochy” like flies around a corpse, and there are few things less funny than desperate comedy. It’s as if DeVito set out to make a ...

Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by squeaky-clean Smoochy, a puffy fuchsia rhinoceros.

In July 1991, I was the typical nine-year-old, perfectly content with my games of tag and peanut butter sandwiches, but the highlight of my childhood was always the cornucopia of quality-and not so ...