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Death to Smoochy ** (2002, Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener) – Classic Movie Review 1785

Robin Williams stars as horrible children’s TV show host Rainbow Randolph, who is sacked for bribery and corruption and wants revenge on his replacement, a meek folk singer called Sheldon Mopes (Edward Norton) who dresses […]

Oct, 28

Popeye **** (1980, Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall) – Classic Movie Review 1595

Robin Williams makes his star movie début in director Robert Altman’s ludicrously underrated, under-patronised and undervalued 1980 live-action version of the E C Segar cartoon. Williams and Shelley Duvall are just perfect as the spinach-eating […]

Aug, 26

Robots *** (2005, voices of Robin Williams, Halle Berry, Ewan McGregor, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks) – Classic Movie Review 1587

Directors Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldanha, the makers of Ice Age (2002), come up with another dazzlingly inventive and witty CGI animation in 2005. Robin Williams voices the nutty robot Fender, who, with cute Cappy […]

Aug, 24

Nine Months *** (1995, Hugh Grant, Julianne Moore) – Classic Movie Review 1575

Writer-director Chris Columbus’s interesting if uneasy 1995 comedy is based on the 1994 French hit Neuf Mois, written by Patrick Braoudé. Hugh Grant stars as Samuel Faulkner, a commitment-phobic man who fears that his idyllic […]

Aug, 22

Fathers’ Day ** (Robin Williams, Billy Crystal) – Classic Movie Review 1571

Robin Williams and Billy Crystal star together for the first time in director Ivan Reitman’s wobbly, forgettable 1997 comedy based on a French movie – Les Compères by Francis Veber – that is amusing and enjoyable […]

Aug, 20

Being Human ** (1994, Robin Williams, John Turturro, Kelly Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 1570

With the best will in the world, writer-director Bill Forsyth’s 1994 offbeat epic fantasy comedy drama just can’t be judged an unqualified success, though it’s a highly ambitious and intelligent project. Robin Williams teams with the Scottish director […]

Aug, 19

Flubber ** (1997, Robin Williams, Marcia Gay Harden, Christopher McDonald, Clancy Brown, Ted Levine, Wil Wheaton, Edie McClurg) – Classic Movie Review 1552

Director Les Mayfield’s harmless and innocuous 1997 family comedy Flubber is fun for kids, though adults may find it tedious at times and that a little bit of it goes a long way. Just when […]

Aug, 16

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