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/

Yes, I am not a member of his fan club and for the most part I hate nearly everything he was in. My favorite scene with him is the one in "The Good Son" involving the cliff. I had a nice laugh with that one. Here there is no such scene and the film might as well be called "Home Alone 3: this time the kids rich!" as it has almost the same premise. Granted the parents did not really leave him, but rather got into an airplane crash, but it is essentially the same as that brat is in this one too. So the story is the kid is lonely and tries to make friends, parents disappear after a plane crash, some dude is trying to get all the money for himself and there is no robot like there was in the original cartoon still trying to debate if that is a bad or good thing. All I know is that the film for the most part is cringe worthy, but as I have said I can not stand Macualay at all so I am going to tend to be against anything he is in. I did not like "Uncle Buck", "Home Alone" or any of the movies he has been in. Except for said scene, ah yes plunge to your death you spoiled sack of...ahem, the only reason I give this movie a two is that there was a joke in it that actually got me to laughing involving this laser or something blowing a chunk out of a stone statue. Other than that, barf.

In 1994, Macaulay Culkin stared in 3 films: 'Richie Rich', 'The Pagemaster' and 'Getting even with dad', none of them particularly interesting. The movies themselves did poorly at cinemas and in critical terms.In 1994, Macaulay Culkin was 13/14 years old. He was in his early adolescence, so he was growing. A difficult phase for him. Ridiculously, people began to ignore him because of that - either that or they simply thought his cuteness was disappearing and gave him little value for that. But he always proved to be a terrific actor. True, there were many, many great child actors but he was one of them for sure. Sure, his cuteness took him far, but it was his talent that made him a legend.After playing a completely different role in the 1993 film 'The Good Son' (where he played a psychopath that could very well disguise that nature thanks to his angelical looks, a wolf in sheep's clothe), he returned to the roles of 'good guys' in all of his 1994 films.'Richie Rich' is not much of a film, but perhaps it's a little more interesting than 'The Pagemaster'. It's not a bad movie, but it's a somewhat complex film for me to give a fair rating. It has good moments but also very stupid moments, particularly from the 2nd half on (in my opinion, where the movie is at its weakest).Macaulay Culkin plays the title character. Richie Rich is rich (like his name suggests), lives in a fancy mansion surrounded by comfort and luxury and can even count with a chauffeur that takes him in his majestic and elegant Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud whenever it's necessary. But Richie realizes that there is one thing that money can't buy: happiness. He feels the lack of friends and possibly bored with his tedious life. He just wants to be like the other kids.About the things I found funny in this film, a good example of that is the line «Oh my God, I look like Michael Jackson!» by Richie's mother. Come to think of it... that's not untrue - lol. I'm surprised they put this line in the film because Macaulay Culkin stars in it and considering the friendship he had with the eccentric singer... Other funny details are, for example, the cute dog that has dollar signs instead of spots and appropriately named Dollar, and the scene when Richie doesn't wanna wake up but stares at his personal trainer when he realizes what a beauty she is (she is portrayed by the supermodel Claudia Schiffer).Macaulay Culkin had everything to be a great name of the cinema. And he was, for a few years, mostly thanks to the success of the first two 'Home Alone' films. He was talented, charismatic and good-looking. Too bad he trashed his life later, but I believe he turned out to be like this because of his personal problems.