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14 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Time Out LondonTime Out LondonYou can see it coming, but it still has the delicious anticipation of the slow burn. And it all gets much worse. Director Richard Benjamin has the rare gift of knowing just where the funnybone lies, a certain taste for Keaton-esque slapstick, and a very fine comic performer in Hanks.
- It’s not high art or sophisticated humor, but there are just enough clever turns in its physical comedy and insight into relationships to give it a bit of cult status.
- 63Miami HeraldBill CosfordMiami HeraldBill CosfordIts situation and its sight gags are marvelous, recalling the best of Spielberg's 1941. But like that movie, The Money Pit is disconnected; pieces seem missing, and subplots seem to have been abandoned in a rush. [28 Mar 1986, p.D5]
- 60The New York TimesVincent CanbyThe New York TimesVincent CanbyIf you can imagine a remake of Steven Spielberg's Poltergeist in which the spirits of the dead have been shoved aside by equally loud, unruly plumbers and carpenters, you'll have some idea of The Money Pit.
- 60Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasThe Money Pit grows increasingly mechanical, both in its content and in the resolution of its plot, as the effects start overwhelming this essentially modest little romantic comedy.
- 50Washington PostPaul AttanasioWashington PostPaul AttanasioThe Money Pit is Richard Benjamin's attempt to make a '30s comedy through the lens of Steven Spielberg -- there are contraptions and "smart" dialogue and, unfortunately, nothing to hold them together. [28 Mar 1986, p.D2]
- 40EmpireIan NathanEmpireIan NathanThis has some very, very funny bits...interspersed with a very slight film.
- 40TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineWhile there is some imagination behind the destruction of the title abode, the film quickly grows into a tired repetition of one long joke.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA movie that contains one funny scene and 91 minutes of running time to kill.
- 25Chicago TribuneGene SiskelChicago TribuneGene SiskelThe Money Pit, a miserable ripoff of the old Cary Grant comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, has nothing to do with such nuances of the human experience. Instead, it is an action comedy that regularly throws its actors around and through pieces of plywood, into and out of windows.