Author: Robin Williams

Format: Anamorphic

Release Date: 2002-09-17

Details: Product Description Randolph Smiley (ROBIN WILLIAMS) has it all - as the costumed star of the highest rated kid's show on TV, "Rainbow Randolph" has a Manhattan penthouse, a Times Square billboard featuring his beloved character, cars, boats, horses and all the indulgence that celebrity brings. Until he get's caught by the Feds in an under the table bribe, busted and instantly reviled, Randolph is a star no more. Enter Sheldon Mopes (EDWARD NORTON) and his alter-ego "Smoochy", a puffy, fuscia rhinoceros. Smoochy is the perfect remedy for what ails the networks...Now it's Smoochy who's got the swanky penthouse, the Times Square billboard and the smooth-talking agent (DANNY DEVITO). Sheldon soon learns that children's television is a dangerous world steeped in corruption, back-stabbing and violence with his biggest problem being Rainbow Randolph. Broke and homeless, Randolph seeks revenge on the Rhino that stole his job and his house; he's convinced the foam rubber carpetbagger is the face of evil sent by the devil to destroy him and he will not sleep until Smoochy takes a permanent dirt nap. Amazon.ca A few years after realizing the deliciously perverse War of the Roses, the prolific comedian Danny DeVito throws a new stone into the pond of clean and polished cinema with Death to Smoochy ( Death to Smoochy), a hilarious satire on the world of children's television. After being embroiled in a sordid affair of bribery and drugs, host Rainbow Randolph no longer makes little viewers laugh. The producers replace him with Smoochy, a pink plush rhinoceros man whose sincerity is matched only by good intentions. But will he be able to survive in this environment where crooked impresarios, jealous producers and the Irish mafia reign? To make us discover the dark underside of this childish universe, a priori harmless, Danny DeVito dips his pen into cynicism and visibly enjoys all this ferocity as much as we do. By conscientiously and systematically going beyond the limits, he delivers a completely refreshing achievement. With Robin Williams, in a delectable misuse, as a fallen and vengeful star with flowery language, and Edward Norton, perfect as a false naive, Death to Smoochy is an incisive comedy, sometimes frankly wicked but, above all, totally jubilant. And even if the nice end seems a little lazy and well-meaning, it does not manage to spoil this concentrate of “politically incorrect”. To savor! --Helen Faradji

UPC: 085392330324

EAN: 0085392330324

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedAcceptable