Death To Smoochy

I stay far away from anything associated with Robin Williams.

Hmm... What to do? I may run in and out of the theatre shaking and buzzing.

SMOOCHY = YES

perhaps maybe slightly overlong and the plot loses some of its punch along the way... and then there's the whole R. Williams thing to contend with, but he was actually pretty entertaining in this. "I'M GOING ON SAFARI, MOTHERFUCKER!! SSSAAAAAFFFFAAARRRRIII!!!" *approximates elephant trumpet*

even so, completely under-rated almost classic. Also Catherine Keener was pretty yummy.

i fell asleepw hen I saw this in the theatre

it was okay, not as bad as i thought it would be.

I really enjoyed this movie. I think I even paid a retailer good money for a copy of it.

like 1 in 10 of my friends and acquaintances seem to have a long and well-refined monologue on how good this movie is just rattling around their heads waiting for any chance to get out

i've never seen it

I liked this movie when I watched it on the treadmill at the gym a few years ago. Loved Edward Norton.

"What are you, blind? It's a cock! It's not a rocket, you sick fuck! It's a cock! Look. It's a cock and balls! A dick! Chorizo and the huevos! It's a big stiffy! It's a penis! Penis maximus! A willie! A weenie! Mr. Jiggle Daddy! The one-eyed wonder weasel! Don't you see that? It's Jimmy and the twins. Rumple Foreskin. He made this. It's made from dil-dough."

http://defamer.com/assets/resources/2007/06/license-to-wederus.jpg

shouldn't that poster say 'first comeS love... then comeS reverend frank.'? it's kind of bothering me.

From IMDB. "Tagline: First came love... then came Reverend Frank."

I watched Smoochy on TV sometime last year. For a movie that looks so utterly horrible, it was quite OK.

What is that pic trying to prove? That Robin Williams is the vagina?

What it it with that typeface in red and romcoms?

That's the typeface of LOVE, silly.

I wish Norton had released an album of his character's songs.

OTM.

"My Step-Dad's Not Mean, He's Just Adjusting"

jon stewart mentioning this film to every acor guest he has on tds before an audience of millions - kudos.

actor

What it it with that typeface in red and romcoms?

it's Futura Black, and it's not just romcoms.

http://www.impawards.com/1999/posters/eyes_wide_shut_ver2.jpg

http://www.ricksvideo.com/afi100/box_art/AFI_thumbs/th_2001_space_odyssey.gif

kenan that's not RED! also it does not have sharp, thin drop-shadow, which is urgent and key to the romcomness of it all

jon stewart mentioning this film to every acor guest he has on tds before an audience of millions - kudos.

-- Frogman Henry, Monday, June 18, 2007 2:22 PM

well before that, he was always going "I was in 'Big Daddy'!"

or Half Baked

Dude got to make out w/ Gillian Anderson in Playing With Hearts - he should play THAT up!

Seriously, how is a movie this great also this much of a pariah? What is wrong with the world?

#1 in kottke's list of 50 Films You Can Wait to See After You're Dead. I don't get it either, only seen it once but thought it was great. Best of the 2002 Robin Williams Career Reclamation Trilogy (Smoochy > Insomnia > One Hour Photo).

Seriously, whenever I mention how great this movie is, people look at me like I'm high.

For real, I'd understand if it was regarded as middling, and then when I say I love it people would be like, "Well, ok. Maybe I can see that." I have movies like that, too. But almost no one has even seen this movie, and it's regarded as poison or something. Like it will curve your spine and make you talk in a southern accent or something. Christ, people... it's not THAT bad. Actually it's really good!

I can't figure out what nerve it touched with critics that caused the landslide of hate.

Robin Williams was Hillarious. You WIll never look at Barney the same way again!

― Dave Mccormick, Sunday, October 30, 2005 3:27 PM (3 years ago)

I've no idea in what way I looked at him before.

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, October 30, 2005 3:29 PM (3 years ago)

I blame Ebert, I think. Half a star from the big man is pretty damning.

Bring me the head of Ebert!

Eew, you don't want that. Some of it doesn't even work anymore.

(I wish I could take that post back. So mean.)

mainstream crix like their comedies with a coating of faux social relevance (As Good As It Gets, Jerry Maguire, even Apatow)

What's not funny about mean-spiritedness all by itself? The same critics will cut a break to a lot of movies that have the same rough tone -- Ebert loved Bad Santa, for instance, and so do I. Why this movie in particular?

Probably because the cast of Bad Santa had something resembling charisma and no one in this movie did.

also Danny DeVito makes the butt-ugliest movies ever, which actually means i'll check them out for at least 15 minutes to peep the garishness.

i remember just hating this beyond belief when I saw it in a theater but maybe it's better now, years later, on dvd

I can't imagine why it would be

the cast of Bad Santa had something resembling charisma and no one in this movie did

You're just wrong. Catherine Keener does extreme, huffy exacerbation like no one. And Norton was so great toe-ing the line between gleeful and completely retarded. (And just for comparison, the movie also has a character who is completely retarded. But not in that "yay tolerance" Farrelly Brothers way, which I frankly find even more disgusting)

actually I just about to xpost that I just remembered Catherine Keener was alright

b-b-b-but there's no one saying transgressive things like "fuck me santa" in death to smoochy

the movies totally lewd & overblown weirdo comedy expressionism was just such a turnoff for me. so many wacky angles.

devito is consistently crazy with that shit, have you seen hoffa?

ya i was gonna say, he is a very stylistically weird dude

War of the Roses.

yes?

the movie

weird movie, standard example of how a dark ending (the only way it could be darker is if they twitched and rattled) can make money. I remember my parents seeing it and going on and on about how they hated it. There really is no moral to the story.

Must have been just one of my parents -- they'd been divorced for a few years by then. Maybe it was mom and her date? Ugh.

Nowadays, I think it's brilliant.

How do you hold onto someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

i was wondering the same thing

I'm going, I'm going. Jeez. Sometimes I need it in print, is all.

But one more thing...

No I'm joking.

war of the roses is 100% classic imo

war of the roses is really funny. this was not.