Children’s television...it’s a cut-throat world.
Fired from his hit kid’s show after a bribery scandal, “Rainbow Randolph” star Randolph Smiley (Robin Williams) finds himself out on the street and replaced by squeaky-clean Sheldon Mopes (Edward Norton), and all-round do-gooder who entertains kids dressed as a loveable purple rhino called Smoochy. Much to Randolph’s anger, The Smoochy Show is a huge hit, but he isn’t about to take it on the chin. He sets out on an unrelenting smear campaign, hoping to drag Smoochy’s name through the mud with a series of increasingly aggressive schemes. But Randolph is only part of the problem.
What with merchandise spin-offs, an on-again off-again romance with network exec Nora (Catherine Keener) and the unwanted attentions of a shifty agent (Danny DeVito) and some Irish gangsters, Sheldon’s honourable intentions are coming under fire from every angle.
Led by a hilarious turn by Robin Williams, and directed by Danny DeVito, Death To Smoochy is a seriously twisted look at the lengths to which some people will go to hold on to fame.