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75If you're in the mood for razor-sharp satire, this is the most refreshingly outrageous movie of the season.
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75The spectacle is nothing short of refreshing.
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70Death to Smoochy is often very funny, but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of DeVito's misanthropic vision.
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67It's good -- no, great -- to see Williams as a mean rat bastard.
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63Plays like a long TV sketch, but with an array of characters, themes, subplots and situations just clever enough to keep it moving, and to give cover to its underlying cynicism.
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63In general, parodies may not rely overmuch on plot, but they need more in this department than Death to Smoochy possesses.
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60Resnick has crafted an ambitious, if extremely uneven, character study.
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50A dark comedy that blows up like an exploding cigar, leaving nothing much behind but smoke, noise and a bad taste.
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50So off-the-wall that it may well ultimately acquire the cult status of Resnick's earlier Chris Elliot vehicle, "Cabin Boy."
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50Smoochy, like the cuddly character, tries to be loved and ends on an unrealistically upbeat note. But it's in better, wittier form just being vicious and biting.
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50The script boasts some tart TV-insider humor, but the film has not a trace of humanity or empathy.
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50Sporadically funny, twisted for sure, it risks becoming as repetitive and shrill as the kinds of programs it satirizes.
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50DeVito definitely has a gift for absurd black humor that kicks in here and there, but Adam Resnick's script is slavishly mean-spirited.
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50Starts 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 clever, if protracted, finish.
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50Pushes its dark, smart, clever, cynical, satirical, nasty, provocative and sarcastic instincts to the point of heavily diminished returns -- to the point where the very amusing premise just isn't funny anymore.
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40A broad, braying yuk fest that revels in coarse jokes, lacks the courage of its own cynicism (things keep wavering into sentimentality) and refuses to develop its own premise.
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40This black-comic assault on family entertainment is going to set a lot of teeth on edge -- If only his (De Vito's) material were better this time.
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38Death to Smoochy? Yes, please.
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38Williams, going full throttle as the desperate deposed kiddie icon Rainbow Ralph, is, well, simply exhausting.
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33Tells a moldy-oldie, not-nearly-as-nasty-as-it-thinks-it-is joke. Over and over again.
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30A misfire of spectacular proportions.
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30All noise with very little fun, and almost no restraint.
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30An aggressive black comedy that seeks to satisfy a bloodlust already quelled many times over.
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30It's so over the top, the top isn't even visible in the rear-view mirror.
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25To call Death to Smoochy satire -- or parody, burlesque, or even lampoon -- would be too generous. The moviemakers merely glide on the thin ice of yesterday's cynicism.
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20It is impossible to say whether the premise or its execution is more fatal in "Death to Smoochy." One would expect something greater out of the talents assembled.
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20There are a few laughs, but I'm not sure that a comedy is supposed to make you recoil, which is what "Smoochy" does.
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20DiVito turns actors like Robin Williams, Edward Norton, and Catherine Keener into nothing less horrific than giant Danny DeVitos.
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12To make a film this awful, you have to have enormous ambition and confidence, and dream big dreams.
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It's hard to pinpoint where things go wrong.
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