My personal belief is that it got caught up in a lot of anti-whatever the fuck that movie was on about sentiment that was going on around movies and television post-9/11. Death to Smoochy is way too dark and I think people assumed it would more broad than it was. But I was like 13 when that movie came out and so I missed all the context around it. It's been a long time since I watched it but it was comfort food in high school and college in a way that always annoyed me how often that movie shows up on awful flops and not funny comedies type lists.

I know this isn't what this thread is, but I just want everyone that thinks I'm wrong to admit THEY are wrong, lol. One of Norton's best performances point blank and a perfect role for Robin Williams. Jon Stewart might've been a little better in The Faculty just because that movie is stupid enough for him as an actor but I think he rightly makes fun of his role in Smoochy most because DeVito understood how valueless he was as an actor better than anyone and played it up.


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