An endearing revival for TV's favourite hicks.
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05/13/08
The Beverly Hillbillies (1993)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:7
Rotten:20
Average Rating:3.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A family of country bumpkins strikes oil in their backyard and moves from the backwoods of Arkansas to the mean streets of Beverly Hills. There they have to contend with a serious culture clash,... [More]
Starring: Diedrich Bader, Dabney Coleman, Erika Eleniak-Goglia, Cloris Leachman
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Reviews for The Beverly Hillbillies
Top CriticWith films like these, it's a wonder studios still think it's a good idea to regurgitate the past.
05/13/08
Top CriticDirector Spheeris should be ashamed of herself.
06/24/06
Top CriticDon't get me wrong. This is not cerebral humor. It's just that there were a lot of different paths this movie spin-off could have taken and the low road is not one of them.
01/01/00
Perhaps the clearest evidence of the dearth of original ideas in Hollywood is the constant need to regurgitate old, worn-out television series.
01/01/00
Imagine the dumbest half-hour sitcom you've ever seen, spin it out to 93 minutes by making it even more thin and shallow, and you have this movie. It's appalling. It's not even really a good version of whatever it was that made the TV series appealing.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe Beverly Hillbillies is stupid to the max.
01/01/00
You'll hate yourself for enjoying this, but enjoy it you will.
08/30/04
Top CriticIt's thin stuff, but the ingratiating naivete of the characters and the aw-shucks friendliness of the cast are disarming, and it becomes easy to just let this go down as a country tune with some moonshine on the side.
05/13/08
Top CriticIt's fitting that The Beverly Hillbillies is based on a popular sitcom, given that the film feels perfectly suited to the small screen.
12/19/04
For nostalgia, watch the series in syndicated reruns for free; for the kids, just give them a good book. They'll thank you for it later.
01/01/00
Four writers worked on the script, and they all should hang their heads in shame.
05/13/08
Like the old show, the movie glides by quickly and pleasantly. If it's nothing fancy, it's mighty sweet.
01/01/00
Tomlin finds the humor and the heart in these hillbillies. The rest is just crude oil.
05/12/01
This big-screen expansion boasts one of the richest comic ensembles in recent memory, working well under Penelope Spheeris... About all that's missing is a point.
05/13/08
Top CriticEee-hah! But Granny madeover?
10/30/04
Was this really necessary?
02/16/03
Unbearable.
09/07/05
You knew it would be awful and it surely did not disappoint. The few stray chuckles seem to arrive by accident.
07/26/02
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