
Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills, when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife, there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready to make a fast buck.... (Full plot summary below)
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Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills, when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife, there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready to make a fast buck.
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| Boston GlobeJay CarrThere's just enough plot to keep things moving but never too much that it gets in the way of the basic fish-out-of-water gagfest. The Beverly Hillbillies' greatest achievement is its inspired casting. |
| Los Angeles TimesPeter RainerYou can feel your IQ plummeting while watching The Beverly Hillbillies but since you lose 10,000 brain cells a day anyway, why not have a few laughs? |
| The New York TimesJanet MaslinIt is by no means the dopiest thing on the big screen. |
| The Seattle TimesJeff ShannonIt’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. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonBut despite the overall thinness, there's a great spirit afoot. It's a TV-cultural guilty pleasure to see this charming, dust-covered series from the 1960s gussied up and ready to go. Which is why it will work better back on your TV screen. |
| Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenDon'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. |
| PajibaJeremy C. FoxDespite a few good actors (Lily Tomlin, Chloris Leachman) and a director with some good work under her belt, it's as bad as you'd expect, possibly worse. |
| USA TodaySusan WloszczynaMy advice is to wait and see this version of The Beverly Hillbillies the same way that you've seen all that's gone before -- on the small screen. And let's hope that when the closing song chimes in with the familiar "Y'all come back now, hear?", it's not a reference to a sequel. |
| Film4Daniel EtheringtonAn endearing revival for TV's favourite hicks. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksThe Beverly Hillbillies is stupid to the max. |