O Natal do Riquinho

Richie Rich'$ Christmas Wish

You would think that being bitten by a radioactive $100 bill would be the basis of an affluent comic book character.

However, the only power the world's richest kid in this family-comedy possesses is that of financial persuasion.

After his envious cousin Reggie Van Dough (Jake Richardson) sabotages Richie Rich (David Gallagher) and his butler Cadbury's (Keene Curtis) sleigh, and slanders him around town, Richie uses a wish machine - cooked up by one of his scientists - to wish he'd never been born.

Trapped in a world where Reggie is now the richest and meanest kid in the world, Richie races to obtain the dinosaur fossil that will fuel this alternate realities disengaged wishing machine.

With a story that borrows heavily from superior seasonal fare and a cast of no names replacing the noteworthy originals, Richie Rich'$ Christmas Wish is bankrupt.

As for my Christmas wish: no Christmas until December 1. (Red Light)

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Is it not weird not one person of colour is in this movie not Asian not black not Indian. They even replaced the black friend for a red head kid. Hmmm.

Richie Rich (David Gallagher) is the richest kid in the world. Professor Keenbean (Eugene Levy) has created a wishing machine from a dinosaur's wish bone. Of course, it goes badly. His wish is that he was never born. His bratty cousin Reggie Van Dough is the new richest kid in the world.

The fun of Richie Rich is his many gadgets and endless riches. I'm not saying that he's actually fun. Whatever fun is the ridiculous riches. The most fun in this one happens with the familiar faces who pop up. On a side note, Reggie looks a bit like Millie Bobby Brown. Otherwise, this is a not so fun straight-to-video.

This was a cute movie. I watched it with my family a couple Christmas's ago and thought it was good. It tries to teach lessons about giving and selflessness, but they are still subtle enough to children that they will be intrigued by it.

The down side, I think, it how obviously fake some of the special effects are. But hey, it was made in 1998. You can't criticize it too much for that.

I don't think it will ever be as big as "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", but it is a nice movie to watch with family to get you into the Christmas season.

This spin-off movie to the 1994 Macaulay Culkin movie has the exact same plot to the 1946 classic film "It's a Wonderful Life" in which Richie Rich (played by David Gallagher of Television's 7th Heaven) is the George Bailey character and Reggie Van Dough (played by Jake Richardson of Fudge and Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves) is the Mr. Potter character. the story is awkward and ridiculous, the characters are okay since they were based off the Comic Book series by Harvey Entertainment who brought us Casper the Friendly Ghost and Baby Huey and even Eugene Levy plays a good role as Professor Keanbean and even Martin Mull and Lesley Ann Warren play a very good role as Richie Rich's parents and the last role of Keene Curtis as Cadbury before his death in 2002. so on and all this cheesy family christmas movie produced by the company that brought us Power Rangers is not to great and recommend seeing "It's a Wonderful Life".