‘An emotional rollercoaster of a man spinning wildly out of control’ … Robin Williams as the villainous children’s TV host Randolph Smiley AKA ‘Rainbow Randolph’ in 2002’s Death to Smoochy. ‘An emotional rollercoaster of a man spinning wildly out of control’ … Robin Williams as the villainous children’s TV host Randolph Smiley AKA ‘Rainbow Randolph’ in 2002’s Death to Smoochy.
is the gleefully twisted 2002 film Death to Smoochy, a blacker-than-black satire of the children’s TV industry that’s never received proper kudos. Time to correct the record: I’ve seen this devilishly sassy and laugh-out-loud film a handful of times and always look forward to another rewatch., and screenwriter, Adam Resnick, take what should be a scrupulously moral and clean industry and apply awfully adult concepts to it, injecting subplots involving revenge and organised crime while commenting on rampant corporatisation and the prioritisation of dollars over ethic