The Money Pit, a review by Jon
The Money Pit ***
3 out of 5I must have seen this film a dozen times since I was a kid. It's fundamentally a bit rubbish, but at least it's simple; Tom Hanks and Shelley Long buy a mansion on the cheap, thinking they have a good deal, but it disintegrates around them and they need an army of builders to put it back together. But the plot has bigger holes than the house!
I love it though, because it's consistently hilarious and contains a couple of the funniest things I've ever seen in a film (the stairs! The bath!
) and it's so optimistic. It's feel-good slap-stick and should be taken for what it is.
Critics seemed to agree that this was beneath Tom Hanks, but he makes the film (I suppose that was kind of their point). He is so good at this sort of stuff, I wish he'd do more even now. The afore-mentioned bath scene is fantastic simply because how he reacts.
Ok, it's just a bunch of farcical sketches joined together by a poor attempt at a plot, but your sides will feel like they're going to burst!
(From Jon's Random Reviews on August 16th, 2009)
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