| not dumb enough to be funny, not smart enough to be fun |
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| written by jamkat79 |
March 24, 2004 - 2:42 PM PST |
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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This movie is all the more painful when you consider what it could have been. Danny Devito is going for something darkly comic and affectionately quirky; what he ends up with, however, is mean and senseless, a kooky script colored by poor writing and obvious gags. I have friends who love the movie, but I laughed exactly once.
Maybe a truly comic actor like Adam Sandler could have summoned up the dopey innocence needed to sell the Smoochy character, but Norton (much as I love him as an actor) fails.
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| Kiss this movie off |
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| written by underdog |
October 25, 2002 - 11:07 AM PDT |
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4 out of 5 members found this review helpful
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An almost loveable mess of a movie, this story of warring factions on a children's TV network has some genuinely inspired moments of lunacy and some great lines -- oh, and Catherine Keener, too. But it all adds up to... nothing, with an ending about as satisfying as warm, flat 7-Up. Danny deVito severely overdirects to a dizzying degree, almost as if he wasn't confident enough in the script. (Understandably.) Norton (as a crunchy granola Barney) is pretty funny, and Williams has his moments, but the whole thing gets tiresome pretty quickly -- especially as they add in way too many "mob" characters to keep track of. It's too bad -- it coulda been a contender. |
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