10 Movies That Were So Much Better When I Was A Kid

4. Richie Rich - 1994

You remember that kid from Home Alone? What was his name again? Macaulay Culkin I do believe. A name that I cannot spell but my auto-correct knows. Remember when he was a hit in the early 90€™s, performing countless acts of dangerous stunts against villainous adults, thus leading us to follow in his footsteps and eventually getting into mounds of trouble. While Home Alone 1 and 2 were probably his better know films, the Robin to his Batman of films was Richie Rich. Born into a rich family that just happened to have the last name Rich with a dog born with dollar sign patterns on its fur, Richie was pretty much Kevin from Home Alone except with money, a wacky scientific-lab under his mansion and a roller coaster in his backyard. Did I mention he had his own McDonald's in his mansion? Meant to play with pretty much the dream of how every kid imagined life with boat loads of cash, the film followed Richie gain the only thing he did not have: friends. As a kid, the movie was hilarious. Goofy laughs, physical jokes, all silly and outlandish. It made sure to exaggerate every aspect of what life would be if one were actually €œrich€. As I mentioned, think of every way a seven year-old would spend its money. The film was not offensive in anyway. But obviously the comedy that was appealing to my younger mind did not hold up in my more recent years. Discovering this film in a search of nostalgia, hoping to remind myself of what my thoughts used to escape to, I was instead treated to a zany exhibit of the difference between children movies and adult movies. There is a reason they are categorized differently in DVD stores. With a tone that simply plays out the comic-strip world the character was derived from, the characters and gags felt distant now. None of them really held the power of the punch like they used to. But once again, I€™m not to blame the film. Richie Rich was intended to be an absurd and illogical series of events that only make sense in the mind of a child. However, I do appreciate the trip down memory lane.