'Smoochy,' like Barney, lacks bite
Film
When purple rhinoceros Smoochy, a.k.a. kids' television show host Sheldon Mopes (an interminably cheerful Ed Norton) has his first encounter with the seedy underbelly of network television, he laments to his agent, "What kind of world are we living in?" His agent Burke (actor-director Danny DeVito) bitingly responds, "The real one."
But this is not the world that DeVito's latest film depicts. "Death to Smoochy" is mostly a head trip of zany, overdone characters living in a bizarre fairy-tale world. If anything, it is the real world filtered through the lens of a Smoochy fan after...
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