Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

GamerTab That was an excellent one.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

chetburnett9 Much like it's sequel in the near future, this Richie Rich movie isn't for the faint of heart. The final cut of the movie isn't nearly what director, Donald Petrie, wanted this to be. In the director's cut, Richie goes all the way in the make out session scene with the old fat woman, but in the final, he just HUGS HER!?! It destroys the whole meaning of the scene. When Richie makes out with the old lady, and puts his tongue all the way up her nostril, and she screams, your touching my brain, it brings realism to the scene. When in the final, theatrical cut, he just hugs and then she kicks him in the shin. If this movie had been left the way Donald Petrie wanted it to be, it would've been a ten out of ten masterpiece. Yet, I find it sort of insulting. Yes, director John Murlowski would go on to make a more interesting and exciting Richie Rich movies, but this is not a good opener. That's not to say that the film is bad. There are many good qualities of the film. The scene where the mom and the dad lick the family dog on Richie's back was left untouched, and was excellent, but right after that scene, they cut to Richie beating his butler with a baseball bat, when in the director's cut, he is beating the butler with a stick covered in maggots, and all of the maggots crawl in his mouth, and eat his insides. I had to search through about a billion websites before I could find the director's cut, and that makes me mad. 7/10/

gcd70 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.

robb4964 I gave this movie a 7 on a scale of 1-10 because I took into consideration it is a kids movie and should be judged as such. When this movie came out I was 13 and of course I enjoyed it much more then as opposed to now but having watched it as a child and as an adult I do remember how much I enjoyed the film as a kid. From the harsh grade of a 4.4 average I assume people where comparing this to complex movies with great plots. Kids should not be subjected to nothing but adult theme. So when you grade the movie remember what audience it was desighned for.As a child I would have gave this movie a 7. Would you drive a metro and act as if it should perform like a porsche?

bradleyadita While 1994 was a great year to be Green Day or The Offspring, this was not so for the young Macaulay Culkin and his fans. As a 14 year old playing the younger 12 year "richest kid in the world", Culkin and his management must have realized quickly that he could not stay a child actor forever. Richie Rich, therefore became Culkin's last major project until his return to film as a 23-year-old young adult in 2003's Party Monster.In "Rich", no actor is in top form. The laughs were too few and too far between, especially for a family comedy. The post-Jurassic Park CGI "robot bee" may have even been a hindrance rather than a creative flourish. None of the characters were developed beyond the simple caricatures we'd expect and further stripped of comedic potential. By the time the antagonist breaks into the vault, anyone over the age of 17 probably knew what was inside; that is if they hadn't already stopped paying attention and fallen asleep.Had the film starred another adolescent lead, we may have been forgiving, but the overall quality of this venture paled in comparison with the Culkin we knew from Uncle Buck, the Home Alone pictures, My Girl, and even his brief appearance in Michael Jackson's 9 minute "Black or White" rampage. Being that it was filmed in and around the Chicagoland area, and that this reviewer is a sucker for anything local, this reviewer feels generous giving Richie Rich 4 out of 10 IMDb stars.