Ri¢hie Ri¢h (1994)

Sadly Over-hyped

Did you people see the same film I saw?

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

It was one of my favourite family films of the 90s. I watched it several times, and still couldn't get bored of it. I mainly watched it because it was starring Culkin, and I'm a huge fan of him at Home Alone. Richie Rich is one of his few good movies, and it's really a good movie for the family if you ask me. I don't understand the criticism it gets because there's nothing much wrong with the movie. The plot is very simply to understand.

A rich young boy finds his family targeted in an inside job and must use his cunning to save them. Richie Rich is a bland and boring 90's film that doesn't know if it wants to be funny or dramatic and at times it even wishes that it was a Home Alone 3. The perfomances for the most part were alright i'll give them that but that still isn't enough for to keep audiences care for the leading character or the movie in general. (5/10)

I don't really remember watching this movie, except extremely vague memory's, the only part I remembered was when the nose fell of the head and looked like Michael jackson lol! This movie came out the year I was born, so maybe my parents bought the VHS tape and I came across them watching it. But I watched it recently and the memories came flooding back. As a kid, I didn't think it was half bad, I mean I enjoyed it, and laughed at some of their cheesy jokes, lol! But obviously today as an adult, of course it isn't very good, it cliché and bland, but hey it was a kids movie, so i won't rate it to harshly, so I'll give it a 7, but even as a kid I didn't really love it, I guess I was into more. Serious stuff like watching gargoyles, lol! I do feel bad for Mac though, this was obviously a last ditch effort to cash in on his youth, and it failed. He just so weird now, I mean I'm not judging I'm sure he's a great guy, but I always thought he was always pretty emasculate and pretty boy looking, and I guess that is one aspect that hasn't changed about him, I mean he still looks and sounds and acts very boyish, even,I at 19 look much older, but I wish him good health and fortune.

Inspired by the popular Harvey comics comes this above average kids flick from writers Tom S. Parker and Jim Jennewein (original story by Neil Tolkin) which sees our hero "Richie Rich" having to thwart an attempt to assume control of the family fortune. The plot is hardly inspiring, yet the cast make do with it to keep young viewers reasonably entertained.The cast are hardly riveting themselves, and all do better than the precocious Culkin. Evil John Larroquette as the greedy Van Dough and butler Jonathan Hyde do well, while Edward Herrmann and Christine Ebersole play Richard and Regina Rich. Daniel Petrie's direction saves the film as he keeps proceedings bouncing along nicely.Tuesday, September 30, 1997 - T.V.