Really Surprised!

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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)

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/

I didn't absolutely hate Richie Rich, but for me it wasn't that great either. As usual, there were some good things, but some not so good things as well.THE GOOD THINGS: 1) Macaulay Culkin, personally I think he is better an actor than people give him credit for. He is one of the main reasons why I love the first two Home Alone movies so much. Here, he gives a very spirited lead performance, admittedly not as cute as he was when he was starring in underrated gems like Uncle Buck, but he shows once again what a talented actor he was.2) Jonathan Hyde as the butler comes very close to stealing the show, a very funny and sly performance. Also Edward Hermann and Christine Ebersole give humorous performances, while John Larroquette plays the villain of the piece more than adequately.3) The scenery is quite impressive, captured well by the breezy cinematography. The Biltmore estate was gorgeous.4) The soundtrack was decent, nice background music especially.5) I liked the moral the film taught; All the money in the world can't make you happy, thinking about it that is true.THE NOT SO GOOD THINGS: 1) While I liked the moral of the film, the story itself is predictable and somewhat contrived. it probably doesn't help you have seen it all before.2) The script is quite weak in general. Don't get me wrong there were some good spots like "Oh my god I look like Michael Jackson!" but the jokes are admittedly very silly and juvenile, and the scripting does fall in the danger of becoming clichéd.3) The pacing. Now I don't mind films that move fast. I do have more of a problem if the pacing is TOO fast, despite the feel good nature of the film, and its valiant attempt to rise above superficial material, the film feels a little too rushed, the ending particularly felt skimmed over.4) The characters feel rather stereotypical. Maybe that is an unfair complaint as it probably couldn't be avoided, but I couldn't help thinking yeah I recognise that type of character.Overall, definitely not a bad film, worth watching at least once, but I personally didn't find it that great. 5/10 Bethany Cox

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?