The scene where Ritchie calls his dad about getting a zit wasnt necessarily supposed to be a joke. It was meant to signify Ritchie's loneliness and calling his dad with a superfluous problem as an excuse to have contact with someone
those kids are stuidly unrealistic. when I was a kid everyone wanted to hang out with the rich kid. they had the best stuff, had the best birthday parties etc.
@@sgtjohnson All kids are shallow, only in movies they can be "Oh so very proud while being poor to hang out with the rich kid". In reality they'd be glad to hang out with Richie, even if despising him secretly.
Oh come on. Most kids wanted to have a McDonald's in front of their door, where they could eat every day. That is, until they grow up and realize that McDonald's food is shit.
They probably get better pay than actual McDonald's employees and rarely have to work. And the kid is so rich, he can afford it. Does not sound like a bad job. :-D
"Because you never known when the world needs robotic bees!" And then bees started to die due to unknown reasons and people are desperate to fix the situation so that ecosystem does not collapse due to lack of pollination. We could use that robobee right now...
Funnily enough, bees are not indigenous to the Americas. It's amazing how well they integrated with the native environment to the point where their removal causes more harm than good.
15:40 It's obvious the writers and director have never seen somebody get shot in a bullet proof vest before, because that is not the reaction that kid would have in reality. The reaction would be, kid falls backward screaming bloody murder from the intense pain coursing through his chest. Oh, and bullet proof vests aren't designed to take that much punishment. Six point blank rounds are going to do damage. The mental and physical trauma alone may have killed the kid if not the actual bullets. 16:33 Wait, the guy only gets community service for attempted murder... on a child!!! What... The... Fuck
The kid has ROBOBEES and you're complaining about the unrealistic bullet-proof vest? Maybe it has some advanced ballistic impact gel like that the US troops have in their helmets, but 10 times better, my God, ROBO BEES, dude.
Well, it's not a true bullet-proof vest; the explanation the movie gives is that the spray (which Richie uses on his outfit while going up to face Laraquette) makes anything it's sprayed on impervious. Yeah, it's not realistic, but really, you look at all of the inventions, and MOST of them are impossible, so...
What the previous guy said, A bulletproof vest is essentially just a vest with a metal plate underneath it. The spray Richie uses conversely turns every last bit of fabric he's wearing virtually indestructible.
Mel Gibson got basically that for attempted murder if his ex-fiancé. Hell they threw out the 4 felonies(mandatory 30years total), and slapped him with a misdemeanour. So, if you ever try to kill someone, tell them you want the Gibson special, and I’m sore you’ll get the same treatment took
Sounds about right, there was an heir to the Du Pont family who was caught, and admitted to, raping a 3 year old and received probation due to being rich. literally, that was why he never received any jail time, because "his family status and wealth would make him a target in prison, which would constitute cruel and unusual punishment".
He isn't always right. He called James and the Giant Peach ridiculous, which meant nothing because it's James and the Giant Peach; it's supposed to be ridiculous. Although he did bring up a few good points like when Ms Spider said the others treated her like an outcast, even though what we saw was the exact opposite. People also harped on his review of the first Matrix movie. Personally, I thought the movie was okay. I also don't agree with his review of The Temple of Doom. He didn't like the movie because he thought it was "too dark" but I thought it raised the stakes and added a layer that the original, while also good, didn't have.The point is that critics are just like everybody else. They have their viewpoints, opinions, loves, and hates. Although, in this case, I have to agree. Richie Rich isn't a good movie.
What do you know about other people childhood? I barely remember that movie at all, and I would be sad if this movie was the only thing worth remembering from my younger days...
I like how the message is that friends are the one thing you can’t buy-except he kinda does. Richies friends become friends with him because he has fancy stuff like a rollercoaster and before he managed to coax them to his house where all his stuff was they thought he was lame.
As John said, yeah he takes every shot like hes the Terminator, I don't care how expensive those fencing lessons are, they will not turn you into Rambo at freaking 14!
@@Kitsurubariyeah Jonathan Hyde is great. He actually wasn't the first choice to play Cadbury. John Cleese offered the part but turned it down. Tim Allen was considered to play Richies dad but declined.
In Macaulay Culkin's defense, Richie Rich came out in 1994- the same year he chose to take a break from acting and just 3 years before he would take his parents to court and sue for emancipation when he officially retired from being a child star following extensively (mentally, physically and verbally) abusive behavior by his father, failed actor Kit Culkin after his parents filed for divorce. His own failed career is why he pushed Macaulay, Keiran, Shane, and Rory into the acting field and then would live vicariously through their sucess- especially Macaulay who was an absolute rising star in the 90s. In fact, you can blame several of Macaulay's bad roles on Kit who acted as his son's manager. He insisted his son take roles like "The Good Son", even threatening to pull him from Home Alone 2 if he didn't do it. Not saying that makes this performance any better, but it's important to remember he was going through a hell of a lot during this film.
People are probably wondering why there even was a Richie Rich movie. But here's a harsh truth: there have been more Richie Rich comic book titles than titles for any other comic book character. More than Superman. More than Batman. More than any superhero. Richie Rich has probably starred in more comic books than probably any other character.
I happened to be the target demographic when the movie came out and I thought it was an original idea. Turns out that the only reason my mother took me to the movie is because she read the comic books and was curious about her own nostalgia. I will say though, I did enjoy the movie at the time, and if I watched it again, I probably still would. Also, my mother enjoyed it as well. To her, it did hold up to her memories.
Huh, I just now got the feeling 'Hey, I want to check up that Richie Rich review again, it's been a while' turns out it's been exactly 10 years to the day.
For all the jokes NC makes about McCulley Culken (I can't spell his name for the life of me) I honestly find his performances charming in a way, even outside of the first two Home Alone movies save for The Good Son, but even in that he manages to make such a psychotic child character hilariously, cartoonishly, and unrepentantly evil. Apart from all of that, I do have a lot of respect for the guy and he has come out the other side of a rough life and conquered his demons with addiction, which is something I think deserves to be positively recognized more often than it seems to be. When it comes to most of his movies, for me at least, he manages to at least put some life into what would otherwise ring rather hollow were he not in them.
The sad thing is that Macaulay actually didn't want to do "The Good Son" but rather his dad, who acted as his manager at the time, demanded he take the role or he would pull him from Home Alone 2. In fact, Macaulay would actually retired between '94 (when RR came out) and '97 when he sued his parents for emancipation. Poor kid went through hell
@@brideofcthulhu347 That's so sad but I can't say I'm surprised. A lot of child stars go through hellish stuff like that, especially back in Culkin's day, which if you ask me when that happens it's nothing but exploitative on the part of the parents that do this. I'm not sure if it happens as much anymore, but back then it was more common. I don't say this to trivialize Culkin's suffering, but to point out how sad it is that this kind of thing used to fly a lot more easily at that time when this should never happen to child stars.
feathero3 Yeah, maybe they could've even had Jonathan Hyde, who played Cadbury, play Alfred in the DC Cinematic Universe and just have Jeremy Irons, who played Alfred in the DCCU, be Lex Luthor in "BvS: DOJ" instead of Jesse Eisenberg. Edit: No offense to Jesse Eisenberg, but he was completely miscast as Luthor.
There's this one joke in the movie thats meant for "adults". Honestly I found it amusing. The John Larroquette character is on this weird two person workout machine with a woman. John is bobbing up and down and the woman is going back and forth. Then she groans and says "it's so hard". Yeah.
You know, Golden Dunsparce- Bees actually try try not to sting because they know they'll die if they do. Now wasps, THOSE are the guys you should be worrying about. They still should do that though, I see where you're coming from...
Actually, ONLY honey bees die from stinging you. Wasps, bumble bees, etc. don't die because they have smooth stingers, and lancelets can retract their barbs in their stingers. A honey bee has an arrow-shaped stinger (like a dunsparce lmao). When a honey bee stings you, only its stinger and venom sacs get yanked out. It dies from the rupture in its abdomen, but not from its guts getting yanked out! o_o;
Yeah he's a great actor. He's great in other stuff like Jumanji,Anaconda,and the Mummy as the egyptologist who reads the Egyptian message on the chest.
I think I am losing my grasp on sanity lol I been binge watching Nostalgia Critic and Cinema Snob episodes up until three in the morning every night last few weeks lol
I love how the comment section is made up of 1) whiny British people who clearly can't take an obvious joke 2) "We really need those robobees now!" 3) "Wasn't there a cartoon of this? " and finally 4)"Why are you reuploading old Critic reviews? " see for yourself. That is *_ALL_* you see in the comments!
***** the point is that the comment section is mostly made up of the same things....that's how you personally feel? Coincidentally so does 80% of the comment section! What's so wrong with that?
I think this along with The Good Son, Getting Even With Dad and The Pagemaster did to Macaulay Culkin what Two Of A Kind, Moment By Moment, Staying Alive and Perfect did to John Travolta.
I always liked this movie as a kid, and this review did not do a good job of convincing me that it was actually bad. It is overly simplistic, but meh. It's a kid's movie.
Where's Irona? She was my favorite character from the cartoon. Im the only person my age who even knows who Richie Rich is. Its fun being a lover of obscure old cartoons
@@podyjr101 there actually was a wealthy politician (i want to say a senator) who claimed that he wasnt a silverspoon trust fund baby, he started his own company with a "small loan of a million dollars" which was the equivelence of $20-30 million today. This was done before Trump, i want to say it was a minor contreversy in the 90s and the man was mocked for it since he basically turned a $20mil interest free loan, a million dollar education, and all his father contacts into a $100mil business over the coarse of 30-40 years.
There is one movie where the "hero" crashes and burns his own dreams: Fitzcarraldo with Klaus Kinski. Pretty old and niché, but there is a widely known movie :)
I loved this movie as a kid, I had such *a huge crush on him,* McCauley Culkin was like a modernized fairy tale prince here. 😐 Sigh... He went through a lot growing up. It's really heart breaking to think about, so I try not to.
I crave for alot of things in this movie like having my own McDonald's. The fact that professor Keanbean is so overweight and gets all that McDonald's is sickening. Even if he just had one cheeseburger...not a good a idea.
Something not mention on the review is that between the Comic Strip and the live action film was cartoon series. Richie Rich had previously had been adapted as a cartoon on Saturday morning TV from 1980-1984 (first as part of the “The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show” from ‘80-‘82 and then “The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show” from ‘82-‘84. It was revived in syndication in 1996 for 13 episodes. It was just after the Cartoon revival that the live action film debuted. In the first cartoon version, Richie was always seen waring sweater with a big C on it (as apposed to the tuxedo seen in the original comic strip) and his age was said to be about 12 yo. In the 1996 revival of the cartoon he was dressed in a tuxedo as in the comic strip,
That CGI Robo bee still looks 100x better than the dumb CGI they come out with today. Why was CGI better back when computers were way weaker? Oh yeah, money, budgets, and talent.
Really?? He looked exactly like his Cadbury character in Jumanji with the black suit and everything. He plays two characters. One being Allen's father and Van Pelt.
I remember this movie mostly because thanks to it as a kid in the mid 90's I acknowledged the term 'e-mail'. Never heard of something like that before.
In czech republic this was literally marketed as the third home alone. I literally just now found out, that it is a completely different movie.. Thanks once again Critic :)
Culkin was smart. Child stars have a short shelf life, so he took whatever work he could before he stopped being cute and Hollywood was no longer interested. Whether the movie made money or not, he got paid up front. Home Alone and My Girl were the only good movies he was in, that I can recall
When the Box Office Returns came in for Richie Rich, Culkin was 14 years old. He had been riding off of Home Alone for exactly 4 years, he knew he wasn't the Cute little Kevin Macallister anymore, he was now a Rich Teenage New Yorker who had earned his keep as a Child Actor, Macaulay knew he was hitting puberty, that his testicles were dropping and that he had reached Adolescence, Mac wasn't Just Smart, He was INCREDIBLY wise when in December 1994 he flat out told his Mom Patricia and Dad Kit that he did not want to do these films anymore and that he wanted to grow up and be a Normal High Schooler. He Had DOZENS offers and turned them ALL down. Culkin had LARGE Advancement Checks, he Knew his Family were Financially secured. Macualay Carson Culkin (Born Tuesday August 26,1980 in Manhattan,NY) is probably the LUCKIEST Child Star in the World, instead of being hit with the Child Star curse, he turned out a-Ok. Now married to Anne Boonchuy, has Two little sons of his own and is a Regular at RedLetterMedia, This little Virgo is STILL the Ham and Charming Manhattan Kid who played a Chicago Child Prodigy who Defended his Family's Mansion from Two Bumbling Burglars After they accidentally left him home for Christmas. He just got older.
@@Tornado1994 He will ride off Home Alone for the rest of his life because the movie became a holiday institution. Home Alone is now on the same plane as It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th St, the Grinch, and any other holiday movie you can think of.
I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid, but damn, the only whing I remember was that it was advertised in my country as a part of the Home Alone series.
+CuttingPointTheatre Yes, for real. In Slovakia and Czech republic (and maybe some other countries as well) the distributors tried to milk as much money as they could by renaming the movie to "Home Alone and the Rich One" (the name makes no sense in Slovak/Czech either) since everyone was familiar with Home Alone but not with Richie Rich. A lot of people still think this movie is a part of the Home Alone franchise.
15:46 To answer this question, it's because it's easier to shoot the body instead of the head. The is head smaller and if you hit the body you can usually hit a vital organ.
'where's the money?'
'in banks where else?'
that's....a really good point
+EVO6reviews Well...yeah. What kinda idiot puts all his money in a single vault? One burglary and you're broke.
+Nintendotron64 Hell, even Scrooge McDuck doesn't keep his entire fortune in his Money Bin, just the money he earned by himself.
+EVO6reviews what are you talking about? the moment I put my money into the bank, it disappears!
+EVO6reviews Where's my money Denny?
+EVO6reviews The most logical moment in this movie. I honestly like that part.
The scene where Ritchie calls his dad about getting a zit wasnt necessarily supposed to be a joke. It was meant to signify Ritchie's loneliness and calling his dad with a superfluous problem as an excuse to have contact with someone
Yeah NC isn’t always the best at analyzing films.
Actually, if that robo bee can pollinate stuff 100 times better than normal bees, then it is quite useful in agricultural field.
Not to mention the most expensive bees in the agricultural field.
@@aaronstevenson4136 Yeah but if it can pollinate like he says it can it's worth the price.
And it would be an excellent substitute since bees are sadly going extinct
Not really, it was remote controlled lmfao
@@kamengamer5372 soooooo...never
those kids are stuidly unrealistic. when I was a kid everyone wanted to hang out with the rich kid. they had the best stuff, had the best birthday parties etc.
August West Had all the game systems, had a trampoline, and a pool
eh it depends
some kids would resent you for being rich
@@SufferingSuccotash also a rich kid could just suck major ass as a personality
@@sgtjohnson All kids are shallow, only in movies they can be "Oh so very proud while being poor to hang out with the rich kid". In reality they'd be glad to hang out with Richie, even if despising him secretly.
They're part of the "I'm gonna talk shit about something cool because I don't have it" crowd
Yup, because when I think of rich people food I think of McDonald's.
Oh come on.
Most kids wanted to have a McDonald's in front of their door, where they could eat every day.
That is, until they grow up and realize that McDonald's food is shit.
WJZAV But logistically how would it work? Do they have an entire staff just sitting there the entire time waiting for when the kid feels like eating?
They probably get better pay than actual McDonald's employees and rarely have to work. And the kid is so rich, he can afford it. Does not sound like a bad job. :-D
Doesn't Donald Trump eat McDonald's daily? lol
freddy gutierrez, plese not here
"Because you never known when the world needs robotic bees!"
And then bees started to die due to unknown reasons and people are desperate to fix the situation so that ecosystem does not collapse due to lack of pollination. We could use that robobee right now...
Funnily enough, bees are not indigenous to the Americas. It's amazing how well they integrated with the native environment to the point where their removal causes more harm than good.
Sibericus That's because they didn't compete with anything and the side effect from them (pollination) was beneficial to everyone.
+Sibericus They are. Honeybees were brought by Europeans, but they're not the only kind of bee.
+Mandemon1990 Doesn't make it any less interesting.
+Marosario I was talking about their impact on the ecosystem.
Sibericus (About your response to Mandemon1990 ) It makes it more interesting
We actually do kind of need robo bees now
+Artemis Sharp Send them out to take down the africanized bees lol
Swagbito Uchiha Oh no I meant because our actual bees are dying.
Artemis Sharp
True. But I just like the idea of using mechabees to take down actual bees.
But yeah. These would _bee_ nice to have.
Swagbito Uchiha did u just
Artemis Sharp
*Has a big shit-eating grin*
15:40 It's obvious the writers and director have never seen somebody get shot in a bullet proof vest before, because that is not the reaction that kid would have in reality. The reaction would be, kid falls backward screaming bloody murder from the intense pain coursing through his chest. Oh, and bullet proof vests aren't designed to take that much punishment. Six point blank rounds are going to do damage. The mental and physical trauma alone may have killed the kid if not the actual bullets.
16:33 Wait, the guy only gets community service for attempted murder... on a child!!! What... The... Fuck
The kid has ROBOBEES and you're complaining about the unrealistic bullet-proof vest? Maybe it has some advanced ballistic impact gel like that the US troops have in their helmets, but 10 times better, my God, ROBO BEES, dude.
Well, it's not a true bullet-proof vest; the explanation the movie gives is that the spray (which Richie uses on his outfit while going up to face Laraquette) makes anything it's sprayed on impervious. Yeah, it's not realistic, but really, you look at all of the inventions, and MOST of them are impossible, so...
I have to agree with those two, the movie never has given any compromise to be realistic
What the previous guy said, A bulletproof vest is essentially just a vest with a metal plate underneath it. The spray Richie uses conversely turns every last bit of fabric he's wearing virtually indestructible.
@@thefanwithoutaface8105 It's hell on the dry-cleaning bill!
Holy shit. That CG-face looks worse than Jimmy Neutron Happy Family Happy Hour.
Can't believe I just said that.
The pizza is aggressive!
Ohiska Just another day in the life of Jimmy Nutron.
If this had been made in the 80s, it would have starred Michael J Fox.
Interestingly enough, Hanna Barbera actually produced a Richie Rich cartoon in the 1980s. They even paired it with Scooby Doo and Scrappy-Doo.
If this were made in the 50's, it would have starred Donald Trump.
As a 12 year old?
@@sgtjohnson Since canonically speaking the Richie Rich in the comic strip was ten years old, yes.
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Wait a minute, he tried to kill people and got community service?
yeah, totally unrealistic, especially since he tried to kill RICH people.
Well, he is rich.
ThingsStuffington Yeah, that's true, I guess the richness cancels out the punishment and just becomes community service
Mel Gibson got basically that for attempted murder if his ex-fiancé. Hell they threw out the 4 felonies(mandatory 30years total), and slapped him with a misdemeanour.
So, if you ever try to kill someone, tell them you want the Gibson special, and I’m sore you’ll get the same treatment took
Sounds about right, there was an heir to the Du Pont family who was caught, and admitted to, raping a 3 year old and received probation due to being rich. literally, that was why he never received any jail time, because "his family status and wealth would make him a target in prison, which would constitute cruel and unusual punishment".
I actually liked this movie, anyone else feel at times Doug spits on your childhood but in a comedic way?
Yeah but even though we then realise it's a bad film, we still enjoy it cos it was memorable :D
Yeah, it's almost like he's trying to... criticize your nostalgia.
Yeah, but I respect his opinions, and he's funny. Most of the time.
He isn't always right. He called James and the Giant Peach ridiculous, which meant nothing because it's James and the Giant Peach; it's supposed to be ridiculous. Although he did bring up a few good points like when Ms Spider said the others treated her like an outcast, even though what we saw was the exact opposite.
People also harped on his review of the first Matrix movie. Personally, I thought the movie was okay. I also don't agree with his review of The Temple of Doom. He didn't like the movie because he thought it was "too dark" but I thought it raised the stakes and added a layer that the original, while also good, didn't have.The point is that critics are just like everybody else. They have their viewpoints, opinions, loves, and hates.
Although, in this case, I have to agree. Richie Rich isn't a good movie.
What do you know about other people childhood? I barely remember that movie at all, and I would be sad if this movie was the only thing worth remembering from my younger days...
I like how the message is that friends are the one thing you can’t buy-except he kinda does. Richies friends become friends with him because he has fancy stuff like a rollercoaster and before he managed to coax them to his house where all his stuff was they thought he was lame.
Is anyone going to address the fact that the bad guy shot Richie Rich nine times with a revolver without reloading?
No?
...okay:(
My ruger can hold up to ten rounds so it isnt that out of place
Perhaps it was a 9 shot revolver?
As John said, yeah he takes every shot like hes the Terminator, I don't care how expensive those fencing lessons are, they will not turn you into Rambo at freaking 14!
How did he not think to shot him in the head?
sinfulgokussj He went to the school that taught Storm Trooper's to shoot
I love the "Shoot. Shoot them now, please." Line. Absolutely love it's delivery.
The sound of defeat in his voice is priceless
Funniest line: Oh my God my nose. I look like Michael Jackson.
So funny
A little boy got the title of "sexiest man alive"...?
FBI, OPEN UP!
I would rage whenever i see this because i couldn't even get called cute by my mom
I’m Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC. Why don’t you take a seat?
Still better than the orange man having that AND TIME man of the year
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Actually, with the death of so many bees, we might actually benefit from robotic bees.
Suika being the sensible one?
Truly 'tis the end times.
Not really, it was remote controlled lmfao
I liked Cadbury. A really cool butler with several skills. He made a good narrator when the script called for him to do that, too!
Well duh, the butler is the best part in everything.
He’s also the dad/Van Pelt from Jumanji.
Like, Critic made fun of British Butlers but like
Lemme show you Alfred Pennyworth, sometime :D
Yep. Definitely the coolest character in this underwhelming if inoffensive movie.
@@Kitsurubariyeah Jonathan Hyde is great. He actually wasn't the first choice to play Cadbury. John Cleese offered the part but turned it down. Tim Allen was considered to play Richies dad but declined.
In Macaulay Culkin's defense, Richie Rich came out in 1994- the same year he chose to take a break from acting and just 3 years before he would take his parents to court and sue for emancipation when he officially retired from being a child star following extensively (mentally, physically and verbally) abusive behavior by his father, failed actor Kit Culkin after his parents filed for divorce.
His own failed career is why he pushed Macaulay, Keiran, Shane, and Rory into the acting field and then would live vicariously through their sucess- especially Macaulay who was an absolute rising star in the 90s. In fact, you can blame several of Macaulay's bad roles on Kit who acted as his son's manager. He insisted his son take roles like "The Good Son", even threatening to pull him from Home Alone 2 if he didn't do it.
Not saying that makes this performance any better, but it's important to remember he was going through a hell of a lot during this film.
Mac had more Resentment towards Kit, and not their Mother Patricia.
People are probably wondering why there even was a Richie Rich movie. But here's a harsh truth: there have been more Richie Rich comic book titles than titles for any other comic book character. More than Superman. More than Batman. More than any superhero. Richie Rich has probably starred in more comic books than probably any other character.
It really is a stunning amount of content for one comic character. I read quite a few of them myself way back when.
And yet literally no one under 40 knows or cares about him. Literally no one. At least kids have heard of Dennis the Menace and Desperate Dan.
I happened to be the target demographic when the movie came out and I thought it was an original idea. Turns out that the only reason my mother took me to the movie is because she read the comic books and was curious about her own nostalgia. I will say though, I did enjoy the movie at the time, and if I watched it again, I probably still would. Also, my mother enjoyed it as well. To her, it did hold up to her memories.
@@ChaleeRenee really cause this movie feels so 90s
@@ChaleeRenee odd cause this movie screams 90s with the slang the characters the look.
11:00 well, that movie now exists in the form of "The Disaster Artist"
To be fair, that movie was an ironic success story
Huh, I just now got the feeling 'Hey, I want to check up that Richie Rich review again, it's been a while'
turns out it's been exactly 10 years to the day.
Fun Fact: The mansion in the film is the Biltmore house, which is 30 minutes from my house.
Fun Fact: I don't give a fuck.
killerphoenix115 I was just saying it because they didn't shoot it at a studio, which they could've easily done.
Well I was just saying I don't give a fuck.
+Griffin Dumeer Thank you for that fun fact. :)
Orchid The Kaiju Pony you're welcome. :)
For all the jokes NC makes about McCulley Culken (I can't spell his name for the life of me) I honestly find his performances charming in a way, even outside of the first two Home Alone movies save for The Good Son, but even in that he manages to make such a psychotic child character hilariously, cartoonishly, and unrepentantly evil.
Apart from all of that, I do have a lot of respect for the guy and he has come out the other side of a rough life and conquered his demons with addiction, which is something I think deserves to be positively recognized more often than it seems to be. When it comes to most of his movies, for me at least, he manages to at least put some life into what would otherwise ring rather hollow were he not in them.
Yea he was a charismatic actor very talented
@@oooh19 I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees it. :)
The sad thing is that Macaulay actually didn't want to do "The Good Son" but rather his dad, who acted as his manager at the time, demanded he take the role or he would pull him from Home Alone 2. In fact, Macaulay would actually retired between '94 (when RR came out) and '97 when he sued his parents for emancipation. Poor kid went through hell
@@brideofcthulhu347 That's so sad but I can't say I'm surprised. A lot of child stars go through hellish stuff like that, especially back in Culkin's day, which if you ask me when that happens it's nothing but exploitative on the part of the parents that do this.
I'm not sure if it happens as much anymore, but back then it was more common. I don't say this to trivialize Culkin's suffering, but to point out how sad it is that this kind of thing used to fly a lot more easily at that time when this should never happen to child stars.
If his parents would really died he would have become Batman one day
He even had someone making gadgets for him and a kind, caring butler.
feathero3 Yeah, maybe they could've even had Jonathan Hyde, who played Cadbury, play Alfred in the DC Cinematic Universe and just have Jeremy Irons, who played Alfred in the DCCU, be Lex Luthor in "BvS: DOJ" instead of Jesse Eisenberg. Edit: No offense to Jesse Eisenberg, but he was completely miscast as Luthor.
If that happened... God help the world... hed be the worst batman to date... but then again theres Clooney and worst of all ... Ben Affleck...
@@zSpirall MARTHAAAAA.
Seriously, what were WB thinking?
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My Inventions!
Mayan Vengeance!
Mighty Pensions!
Ma's Infections!
Marty's Steak House!
CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
"Oh my god my nose, I look like Michael Jackson!" Richie:"Mom!"
I remember this movie with quite some fondness to be honest.
The one thing I did like about this movie was Jonathan Hyde as Cadbury, he's a criminally underrated actor.
Especially him somehow kicking that prisoner's butt offscreen and slamming his head into a toilet.
Considering Honey Bees are going extinct, a Robo bee would actually be amazing
+Cheerio Puff (CAPTAIN BEAR) thank you
CAPTAIN BEAR Imma bee Imma bee bee bee bee
Robo-bee the movie coming soon to a theater near you
No not the bees
There's this one joke in the movie thats meant for "adults". Honestly I found it amusing. The John Larroquette character is on this weird two person workout machine with a woman. John is bobbing up and down and the woman is going back and forth. Then she groans and says "it's so hard". Yeah.
14:26 I think he shouts "MY INVENTIONS!" Still a stupid scene that can only be made funny through Critic getting confounded by its idiocy.
sounds like he is saying "inventons"
@@SicMuzik I think it's liverwurst.
If not raw meat, definitely some sort of cookie dough.
"He realized there was something money couldn't buy him..." "Rosebud"
that was probably the most creative thing you have done
Getting Even with Dad: Only seen parts of that movie.
The Pagemaster: That movie was my childhood.
The Good Son: Uggh.
With bees dying left and right now RoboBee is actually a surprisingly practical invention.
+Alex-Zander Browne Should prob make it unable to sting so we can get only the good things about bees and none of the bad XD
You know, Golden Dunsparce- Bees actually try try not to sting because they know they'll die if they do.
Now wasps, THOSE are the guys you should be worrying about.
They still should do that though, I see where you're coming from...
when a bee stings, the stinger is pulled out, along with a trail of guts connected to it, killing the bee.
Actually, ONLY honey bees die from stinging you. Wasps, bumble bees, etc. don't die because they have smooth stingers, and lancelets can retract their barbs in their stingers. A honey bee has an arrow-shaped stinger (like a dunsparce lmao). When a honey bee stings you, only its stinger and venom sacs get yanked out. It dies from the rupture in its abdomen, but not from its guts getting yanked out! o_o;
+TheGoldenDunsparce bumble bees don't die from stinging you hu didn't know that?
How long before Macaulay gets his revenge on Nostalgia Critic?
He needs to team up with Mara Wilson
Culkin has been a guest host on RedLetterMedia which is basically a much better take on critiquing older movies.
And God said bring Me one of every stereotype. And Noah said, No!
Jonathan Hyde is just awesome :)
That was enough for me.
Most underrated actor in Hollywood.
Yeah he's a great actor. He's great in other stuff like Jumanji,Anaconda,and the Mummy as the egyptologist who reads the Egyptian message on the chest.
@16:09, richie was two bullets away from becoming the batman.
"My wife can't conceive, thanks for that salt in the wound!" Had me fucking dying.
And also, we need that robo-bee nowadays.
3:42
Oh no, they dragged Agent 47 into this!
Atlas56
Now that I think about, the fashion guy contract looks like an adult richie rich
You would be great at Cinemasins.
Smeeshie2001 holy shit that all I see now
It's actually the legend 27
Atlas No, he’s here to assassinate Macaulay
I think I am losing my grasp on sanity lol
I been binge watching Nostalgia Critic and Cinema Snob episodes up until three in the morning every night last few weeks lol
I love how the comment section is made up of
1) whiny British people who clearly can't take an obvious joke
2) "We really need those robobees now!"
3) "Wasn't there a cartoon of this? "
and finally
4)"Why are you reuploading old Critic reviews? "
see for yourself. That is *_ALL_* you see in the comments!
Yeah, I know, I noticed that too!
Lmao
I was actually going to comment that I want to see a review of the christmas movie
***** the point is that the comment section is mostly made up of the same things....that's how you personally feel? Coincidentally so does 80% of the comment section! What's so wrong with that?
***** ooohh sorry. It's much more difficult oo tell emotions online
My favorite line ever .”’the president needs another lone’ haha doesn’t that just date this movie......! Actually this kinda makes it timeless”
Macaulay Culkin didn't "choose" these movies. His severely abusive father forced him to do them against his will.
I WILL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT PAGEMASTER IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE BEST CHILDREN'S MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!!!
I will have you know your wrong
Mr Internet says WROOONG!!!
Well, this comment caught my attention, gee, I wonder why.....
... is it bad to say i actually liked Pagemaster and this movie? i know they're bad now, but...there's still this nostalgia feeling when i see them.
Nothing wrong with that as long as you know what's wrong
true, very true.
Pagemaster is pure imagination fuel.
and that animation~ like an actual book came to life.
At least your still acknowledging its flaws, so your not blind to theme.
9:50
Bill Cosby: "Oh My GoOdNeSs, A gReNaDe!"
14:30 he said "My Inventions!!"
I know. I already I just heard from the first time
On another note does anyone know when something else happened on his show?
Michael McShane is funny as professor Keanbean. He also has a cameo as doctor Swanson in Office Space.
I love how he was mad about the Economy being dead back then..
Good old days, when Corona was just a beer...
I legit take 2008 all over again over the recession we are in right now.
I think this along with The Good Son, Getting Even With Dad and The Pagemaster did to Macaulay Culkin what Two Of A Kind, Moment By Moment, Staying Alive and Perfect did to John Travolta.
That Cosby joke "REALLY AGE GOOD"
2:31 Clearly you haven't heard of the SAS...They're the British uncles that taught the US Navy SEALs how to fight.
Its a joke!
Yeah - you’re still not known for your athletic abilities dude. Only your bad teeth
I always liked this movie as a kid, and this review did not do a good job of convincing me that it was actually bad. It is overly simplistic, but meh. It's a kid's movie.
Where's Irona? She was my favorite character from the cartoon. Im the only person my age who even knows who Richie Rich is. Its fun being a lover of obscure old cartoons
prettyinpink903 Translation: LOOK AT ME!!! IM SPECIAL!!!
She's in the new one.
You're thinking of the reboot.
This is the...original.
I got to say. Regardless if I like a film or not. Nostalgia Critic is super funny. You should be a comedian. I died laughing so hard.
9:50 I'm sure a lot of people nowadays would like this time stamp...
3:10 a small loan of a million dollars?
Drage I grab them by the pussy.
NC: Donald!
I was just about to say 3:08 to 3:21... wow... did he predict the future
I’ll give you that and a 50% discount
@@podyjr101 there actually was a wealthy politician (i want to say a senator) who claimed that he wasnt a silverspoon trust fund baby, he started his own company with a "small loan of a million dollars" which was the equivelence of $20-30 million today. This was done before Trump, i want to say it was a minor contreversy in the 90s and the man was mocked for it since he basically turned a $20mil interest free loan, a million dollar education, and all his father contacts into a $100mil business over the coarse of 30-40 years.
13:22 this is a really great fight, glad I'm facing towards it
There is one movie where the "hero" crashes and burns his own dreams: Fitzcarraldo with Klaus Kinski. Pretty old and niché, but there is a widely known movie :)
Y'know, they still use that mansion in different films.
Seriously, look at the end of the first X-Men, you can see the RR symbol.
"Oh my goodness! A grenade!" Lost it at that part 😂
This joke aged great 😂
I loved this movie as a kid, I had such *a huge crush on him,* McCauley Culkin was like a modernized fairy tale prince here. 😐 Sigh... He went through a lot growing up. It's really heart breaking to think about, so I try not to.
3:55 Coincidently, the bees are actually dying quite rapidly.
World saving robots if not for them being killers
When this movie came out in 94, the comic stores were still selling Richie rich, Casper, Archie, etc
This movie was Mack's Sendoff. He was basically riding off into the sunset.
@@Tornado1994until Party Monster and Saved!
@@randalgraves6979 That's Right! We didn't see him again publicly for almost 10 years!
Richie Rich is still an awesome movie to this day! One of my favorite childhood movies ever!
Same
When i was a kid i used to love this movie. Even got it on VHS
Same
I remember that Simpsons episode where bart said Casper was the ghost of Ritchie rich.
Lol Casper is the ghost of Devon Sawa...atleast in the 1995 film with Christini Ricci and Bill Pullman.
Hilariously, the Cadbury actor was in Titanic and Crimson Peak. So he has a few badass points under his belt.
Yeah that's Jonathan Hyde. He's great in this movie and other stuff like Jumanji,Anaconda,and the Mummy.
This movie does make me crave for chocolate milkshakes.
I crave for alot of things in this movie like having my own McDonald's. The fact that professor Keanbean is so overweight and gets all that McDonald's is sickening. Even if he just had one cheeseburger...not a good a idea.
WHY DID NETFLIX MAKE A SHOW OUT OF THIS
Why... Why would they do this?!
+Daniel Audéoud it was a cartoon in the 60s or 70s and this movie is based off that
Huh?
+thomasmageeporter/GamingGutter yeah I used to watch that show. It was a cool show.
Infinatis cause it is awesome and they love ( money) their lovely viewers
If only the rest of this film was as good as the “in banks, where else?” and “shoot them now please” lines
Wasn't the fat scientist in this movie also Friar Tuck in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves?
Eeeeeeyep
hes mike mcshane yeah
Something not mention on the review is that between the Comic Strip and the live action film was cartoon series. Richie Rich had previously had been adapted as a cartoon on Saturday morning TV from 1980-1984 (first as part of the “The Richie Rich/Scooby-Doo Show” from ‘80-‘82 and then “The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show” from ‘82-‘84. It was revived in syndication in 1996 for 13 episodes. It was just after the Cartoon revival that the live action film debuted. In the first cartoon version, Richie was always seen waring sweater with a big C on it (as apposed to the tuxedo seen in the original comic strip) and his age was said to be about 12 yo. In the 1996 revival of the cartoon he was dressed in a tuxedo as in the comic strip,
The question is how well the movie and that show follow the source material
I love how he has no reaction to being shot multiple times despite the massive bruising he undoubtedly got
10:55 underrated moment right there
That CGI Robo bee still looks 100x better than the dumb CGI they come out with today. Why was CGI better back when computers were way weaker? Oh yeah, money, budgets, and talent.
That Bill Cosby joke started off as aging really poorly. Then he threw a grenade at it, and suddenly, it's timeless.
How did I just realize that Cadbury is the dad from Jumanji
Really?? He looked exactly like his Cadbury character in Jumanji with the black suit and everything. He plays two characters. One being Allen's father and Van Pelt.
@@bryanrizzo9377 yep that's why I asked how
Wasn't really a hero but I liked John Larroquette in The 10th kingdom, and he wasn't the villain.
Noah & God, starring the cast of Silence Of The Lambs for some reason.
i always liked the Butler, i'd want a guy like that watching over my kids.
"touch him again, and YOU'LL need protection." DAMN STRAIGHT!
I remember this movie mostly because thanks to it as a kid in the mid 90's I acknowledged the term 'e-mail'. Never heard of something like that before.
In czech republic this was literally marketed as the third home alone. I literally just now found out, that it is a completely different movie.. Thanks once again Critic :)
International marketing can be weird
Anybody else notice that this video was posted while Richie Rich was playing on ABC family?
+Kaitlynn Rose Who's watching TV on Sundays?
+victoria martines I am ✋🏻
15:36 HE’S GOT A SWORD!!
Funny thing is Poor E. Book is actually his cousin... that's even in the comic strip
Damn, I just realized Edward Herrmann who plays Richie Rich's father died four years ago.
I miss pudding pops. That shit was delicious.
9:14 Dat ain't no house, its whole hood.
14:17 You'd think she would've called... THE POLICE.
Ba-dum-tishhh
NC: when is the world going to need a robobee?
2021: hello, welcome to the future
Culkin was smart. Child stars have a short shelf life, so he took whatever work he could before he stopped being cute and Hollywood was no longer interested. Whether the movie made money or not, he got paid up front. Home Alone and My Girl were the only good movies he was in, that I can recall
the good son and richie rich too imo
When the Box Office Returns came in for Richie Rich, Culkin was 14 years old. He had been riding off of Home Alone for exactly 4 years, he knew he wasn't the Cute little Kevin Macallister anymore, he was now a Rich Teenage New Yorker who had earned his keep as a Child Actor, Macaulay knew he was hitting puberty, that his testicles were dropping and that he had reached Adolescence, Mac wasn't Just Smart, He was INCREDIBLY wise when in December 1994 he flat out told his Mom Patricia and Dad Kit that he did not want to do these films anymore and that he wanted to grow up and be a Normal High Schooler. He Had DOZENS offers and turned them ALL down. Culkin had LARGE Advancement Checks, he Knew his Family were Financially secured.
Macualay Carson Culkin (Born Tuesday August 26,1980 in Manhattan,NY) is probably the LUCKIEST Child Star in the World, instead of being hit with the Child Star curse, he turned out a-Ok. Now married to Anne Boonchuy, has Two little sons of his own and is a Regular at RedLetterMedia, This little Virgo is STILL the Ham and Charming Manhattan Kid who played a Chicago Child Prodigy who Defended his Family's Mansion from Two Bumbling Burglars After they accidentally left him home for Christmas. He just got older.
@@Tornado1994 He will ride off Home Alone for the rest of his life because the movie became a holiday institution. Home Alone is now on the same plane as It’s a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th St, the Grinch, and any other holiday movie you can think of.
I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid, but damn, the only whing I remember was that it was advertised in my country as a part of the Home Alone series.
***** Yeah, here it was called "Home Alone and Rich"
+CuttingPointTheatre
Yes, for real. In Slovakia and Czech republic (and maybe some other countries as well) the distributors tried to milk as much money as they could by renaming the movie to "Home Alone and the Rich One" (the name makes no sense in Slovak/Czech either) since everyone was familiar with Home Alone but not with Richie Rich. A lot of people still think this movie is a part of the Home Alone franchise.
15:45 Aim for the head! Seriously, it's the only thing that is open.
Thanos: You should've aimed for the head.
"Why can't we have something to help us SMELL better?"
....... Deodorant?
Something to improve our sense of smell, not the smell of our bodies.
@@j.b.9260 I believe that was what the locals call ‘a joke’? I might be mispronouncing that I’ll have to get back to you.
15:46 To answer this question, it's because it's easier to shoot the body instead of the head. The is head smaller and if you hit the body you can usually hit a vital organ.
9:55 that joke aged well
Uhhhhhh
Wait Ben Stine was in this movie?