Richie Rich (1994)
6/10
Starring
Macaulay
Culkin
John
Larroquette
Edward
Herrmann
Jonathan
Hyde
Christine
Ebersole
Directed
by Donald Petrie
The
whole film is a nostalgia fest. It is not fantastic, nor will it cut across as
the go-to film for family fun. But as a child in the 90s, watching the film after
twenty-nine years I still loved it, and found the smiles of your youth back
watching Macaulay Culkin again.
The
special effects did their best is what I will say, for something done in 1994,
the bee flight and control looked good.
The
story of the film can be said to be very shallow, things moved from this is the
Rich family here is their son struggling to get along with others, to where are
the Rich parents.
But the
idea of the film is to give you a child like view of what other kids think or
will do when faced up with someone who is richer and well-paced to outshine
them in many ways.
The
film is based off a comic of the same name by Alfred Harvey and Warren Kremer. We
meet the richest man in the world and his family. His son Richie is ultimately
the richest boy in the world. Now Richie does not have any friends, so his butler
Cadbury took him to the park one day, and he got down to play ball with the kids
there and was good at it.
The
Richs were supposed to go on a trip and Cadbury was able to convince them to
let Richie stay behind, because he was lonely. Cadbury then got the kids from
the park to come visit, and they had a magnificent time.
On the
plane trip the Rich parents discover a bomb, they were able to dispose of it, so it will not harm them, but not fast enough that it damaged their plane.
The
couple were pronounced dead. Now Richie has to manage his new life, with the
CFO eager to be in control and his loyal butler Cadbury framed for the
incident.
What I liked
about the film is how Richie managed to overcome these things, by just opening
himself up to be nice to others.
The
film did not try to win any Academy Award with its acting, they were goofy
enough to make you smile and make young people envy such a life.
I think
now this film will fall some rungs than when we saw it, because kids our age
when we saw it, now want to be Taylor Swift and are more exposed to Marvel and
Transformers to be interested in this sort of comedy.
But
when we were young, things like this and Home Alone were the movies to watch on the
regular on Sundays.
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