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Title: Might have been fun
Review: Robin Williams is a comic genius, and the scenes with him on screen are worth watching (too bad he doesn't have more screen time). And Harvey Fierstein is always entertaining. Danny Woodburn does a great job as the chief "little person" on the Smoochy show. The comic premise of the movie sounded promising, but it's weighed down by a leaden script, with a silly and unfunny gangster subplot and an utterly unbelievable romantic plot thrown in. The film generates maybe half a dozen chuckles in all. The DVD includes a commentary by director Danny deVito which is largely devoted to telling how much fun the movie was to make. Too bad it's not much fun to watch.
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