{"id":73,"date":"2002-04-27T14:59:22","date_gmt":"2002-04-27T14:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ealasaid.com\/writing\/reviews\/2002\/04\/27\/death-to-smoochy\/"},"modified":"2022-06-11T11:40:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T18:40:49","slug":"death-to-smoochy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/2002\/04\/27\/death-to-smoochy\/","title":{"rendered":"Death to Smoochy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Directed by:<\/b> Danny DeVito<br \/>\n<b>Starring:<\/b> Edward Norton, Robin Williams, Danny DeVito, Catherine Keener<br \/>\n<b>Rated:<\/b> R for profanity, violent humor, sexual situations<br \/>\n<b>Parental Notes:<\/b> This is a film for older teens and adults. It is aimed at adults, and the sexual and violent humor make it inappropriate for younger people.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nDuring his heyday, Barney the purple dinosaur was beloved of children everywhere, and loathed by a large number of older teens and adults. Danny DeVito&#8217;s new film, &#8220;Death to Smoochy&#8221; plays to that old loathing, giving us a kids&#8217; show host who dresses up like a giant purple rhino and becomes the target of the guy he replaced.<br \/>\nSheldon Mopes (Edward Norton) is the eponymous Smoochy. Sweet and na<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directed by: Danny DeVito Starring: Edward Norton, Robin Williams, Danny DeVito, Catherine Keener Rated: R for profanity, violent humor, sexual situations Parental Notes: This is a film for older teens and adults. It is aimed at adults, and the sexual and violent humor make it inappropriate for younger people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2oSX4-1b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1886,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/1886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ealasaid.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}