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Title: Richie Rich's Christmas Wish
Year Of Release: 1998
Review Date: December 31, 2010
Rating: PG
Running Time: 84 minutes
Box Office Gross: N/A
Site Rating: 3 out of 10 stars
Seeking to capitalize on the first Richie Rich movie, starring "Home Alone" actor, Macaulay Culkin, Warner Bros made "Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish." The movie was a "Home Alone" clone, featuring a kid making a wish he was not in his family and things going wrong along that path thereafter.
Richie wishes he was not apart of his family, via a "wishing machine" (as opposed to a washing machine) and it happens. It places him in a terrible predicament, as he is given the opportunity to view the deterioration of his hometown, with him not having born, a la "It's A Wonderful Life."
One moment the film is like "Home Alone" and the next it turns into "Back To The Future" and "It's A Wonderful Life." These are the hallmarks of a screenplay writer devoid of ideas. This movie became a mess very fast. It kept circling one into boredom, rather than being a source of entertainment.
The film was full of slick stunts, gimmickry and gadgetry, but lacked a basic story line of any substantive quality. It turned cheesy at many intervals with items that were corny and not funny.
Title: Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Year Of Release: 1989
Review Date: November 30, 2010
Rating: PG-13
Running time: 97 minutes
Box Office Gross: $106,119,546
Site Rating: 3 out of 10 stars
"Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" is the slapstick 80's comedy about the hapless Griswold family and the things that go wrong for them during the holidays. The head of the family, Clark Griswold, makes the bumbling thieves from the hilarious "Home Alone" movie series look like geniuses, as he is a walking disaster area.
Coincidentally, Home Alone, like "Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" was was written by the late John Hughes. This film isn't very meaningful, as it is quite cheesy, but is watched for its surface laughs, due to the clueless conduct of the Griswold family. It should be a crime to be that oblivious and haphazard.
http://www.celluloidfilmreview.com/lampoons-christmas-vacation.htm
John Hughes
As someone who was a child in the 1980's, I can tell you, director John Hughes' films were everywhere. He passed away today in Manhattan from a heart attack. He was 59. Another Hollywood icon has died.
My favorite John Hughes film is "Home Alone 2" which was made in 1992. Just a few weeks ago, it was broadcast on television again, I watched it with my family and laughed. Good storytelling is timeless. Something that does not really exist in Hollywood anymore.
He also made other notable films I enjoyed such as Dennis the Menace, Curly Sue, 101 Dalmatians, Baby's Day Out and Beethoven.
Other films teenagers remember him for are Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Some Kind of Wonderful.
'80s teen flick director John Hughes dies in NYC
NEW YORK — Writer-director John Hughes, Hollywood's youth impresario of the 1980s and '90s who captured the teen and preteen market with such favorites as "Home Alone," "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," died Thursday, a spokeswoman said. He was 59.
Hughes died of a heart attack during a morning walk in Manhattan, Michelle Bega said. He was in New York to visit family...