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Death to Smoochy
Garishly dark comedy, if that's imaginable, set in the cutthroat world of children's television. KidNet's star attraction, Rainbow Randolph, is exposed as a "degenerate scumbag," forcing the network to replace him with foursquare Smoochy the Rhino: "He's a bottle of pancake syrup with legs." Danny DeVito directs him to death, along with everyone else, even before Randolph hatches his revenge plot and before Smoochy rankles the money men with his incorruptibility. Overstatement runs wild, but nowhere wilder than Robin Williams. With Edward Norton, Catherine Keener, Jon Stewart, Harvey Fierstein, and DeVito. 2002.
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MPAA Rating: R
