And I personally really like Death to Smoochie. While I'll freely admit that certain roles by both actors are considered universally bad (please get me started on Cheaper by the Dozen, especially in comparison to the true story on which it's theoretically based), I think the real issue is that, well, Robin Williams's tastes don't align with yours. Or mine. Or anyone's but Robin Williams's, naturally.
However, I do consider Robin Williams to be one of the great underrated actors of our era, Oscar notwithstanding. Let's face it, most people think of him as the Genie from Aladdin, right? Or Adrian Cronauer, forgetting the dramatic elements of that role. (Robots was cute, but no real stretch for the man.) They forget that Dead Poets Society was very much a dramatic role with funny bits, as opposed to Good Morning, Vietnam, which was a funny role with dramatic bits.
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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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