- Don't talk to me like that, because I'm not your puppet
- Since when? Now get your spongy pink ass out there and dance for the cameras.

A couple of friends took offense to my slandering of Death to Smoochy a few weeks ago. Of course, I had to admit I'd never actually seen it, I was just calling it crap by reputation. But my friends persevered, and their recommendations caused me to rent a copy.

This is certainly a quircky movie, and has lots of odd little laughs stashed around. The whole childrens show with mafia tie-ins concept is certainly a first. I give them lots of credit for going a long way out on a limb for this one, but unfortunately the limb ends up breaking. If only they'd kept this in the realm of working, it would have been an instant cult classic.

After seeing it I still stand by my earlier statement that this is a wonderful example of a bunch of talented people making a really bad movie. Look at it, you have Robin Williams, Ed Norton (this is perhaps the only bad movie he's ever done), Danny DeVito, and Jon Stewart. Of course they came up with lots of good funny moments, but they just couldn't put together a good movie this time.

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