Mild-mannered dirt-poor hill-dweller Jed Clampett strikes it rich when oil is discovered on his property. At cousin Pearl's insistence, he moves his family to Beverly Hills to better enjoy his newfound wealth.
Four writers worked on the script, and they all should hang their heads in shame.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
13 May 2008
fresh:
It'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.
– Todd McCarthy,
Variety,
13 May 2008
fresh:
You'll hate yourself for enjoying this, but enjoy it you will.
– Janet Maslin,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004
rotten:
Tomlin finds the humor and the heart in these hillbillies. The rest is just crude oil.
– Peter Travers,
Rolling Stone,
12 May 2001
rotten:
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.