It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

I was interested right up until they bought the house. I then spent the rest of the movie waiting for the house to fall apart.

Great comedy with Walter (Tom Hanks) and Anna (Shelly Long) buying a big house in the country just to find out all is not what seems. After being kicked out of Anna's ex boyfriend Max's (Alexander Goudonov) apartment because Max has come back from being out of town, Walter and Anna have nowhere to go. I, for one, am surprised that a woman's ex would allow her to stay there with her new boyfriend while he is not there, but Max is also Anna's symphony conductor and she plays the violin in the symphony. Walter is a lawyer who happens to have connections with major celebrities such as a rock band who the band leader says he likes Walter better than his family, a spoiled child star, and a transvestite acting group who wants to use Merryl Streep as the name of their act. With the jobs Walter and Anna have, and the people they know, you would think that they have problems that wouldn't amount to a hill of beans. But Walter still complains when they're kicked out of Max's apartment about how broke they are. But the whole first part of the film is done with humor and wit. And they have an amazingly quick and easy time finding this big, nice looking house and the money to buy it. But it's when they move in when their problems really begin. And that's when the really funny parts of the film happen. The staircase collapses, the kitchen goes all haywire, the front door falls off it's hinges, a bathtub falls through the floor, and the water from their pipes looks like there was a nearby bust in a major sewer line. Not just these events, but Walter and Anne's reactions is what helps make these scenes so funny. Then there's the workmen and they're funny characters too. The carpenter thinks that every time a woman calls a carpenter, she's looking for the "ol hammer and nail". The plumber demands a drink of scotch and a five thousand dollar check, then leaves refusing to even glance at the plumbing. (Look out for the gag at both of them driving away to the same part of the same song) Then the work crew, who looks more like a biker and hot wheels gang, just further tear up their house to shreds and won't repair anything until Walter sees the permit man, who he himself is a rather difficult person. This movie really is one of a kind, a real feel good movie. Then there's the humorous character of Max the symphony conductor, who is so wry and conceded, in a pretty funny way. I've actually only ever seen Alexander Godonov in one other film before, and that's the brief Amish scene in the awful movie " North". And interestingly enough, that brief Amish scene was about the only good scene in that entire horrible film. Anyway, there's even more good scenes in "The money pit" I haven't written here, but you'll have to see the film to see them.

One of the things that makes this movie so enjoyable is that millions of Americans can easily empathize and draw upon their own experiences with the travails of fixing up a dilapidated house. The plot is a familiar one and follows in the footsteps (which usually collapse) of such classic films as "George Washington Slept Here," "The Egg and I" and "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House."Shelley Long and Tom Hanks seem evenly matched as the tormented couple who suffer almost every wacky indignity and calamity imaginable. Tom Hanks has a flair for physical comedy, which he rarely got the chance to exploit in his later films. Unfortunately, except for Philip Bosco and Maureen Stapleton, the supporting players in "The Money Pit" are not in the same league as the actors who added so much flavor to films in the old studio days.Indeed, as a classic movie buff, I find today's crop of character actors pallid in comparison with their counterparts of more than 50 years ago.Who can forget Percy Kilbride and Hattie McDaniel as Mr. Kimber and Hester the maid in "George Washington," and Harry Shannon As Mr. Tesander, the well digger, in "Blandings"? Don't forget Donald MacBride and the coupling of Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride as Ma and Pa Kettle in "The Egg." We'll never see the likes of them again.Still, "The Money Pit" is all good fun and very entertaining.

Walter Fielding (Tom Hanks) and Anna Crowley (Shelley Long) are a New York couple who has to search for a new place after her wild ex-husband the Maestro Max Beissart comes home. They find a grand mansion at a very low price. The lonely old woman at the house con them with a wild story that force them to buy blindly. Only when they move in, things fall apart.This was probably the height of Shelley Long's popularity. Tom Hanks is as lovable as ever. There are great pratfalls and great physical humor. It should be so much better than it actually is.Both her character and her acting don't lend itself to be likable. The role needs to be more sweet and cute. She's neither of those things. Their constant bickering and her constant complaining really makes it hard to root for these guys. The good part is the funny physical stuff. Those hold up great after all these years.