There Goes The Neighborhood (film) - Critical Reaction

Critical Reaction

"There Goes the Neighborhood" was never a commercial success. In fact, according to movie stats website www.the-numbers.com, the total US box office gross was a mere $11,000. This may account for its release in foreign territories under a different title, though this would have had to have been slightly changed in the UK at least as the word "Neighborhood" is spelt in British English with a "u" - "Neighbourhood", the former is the American English spelling. It was competing with a number of other high profile films at the same time - Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs" had been released only a week earlier on the 23rd October 1992, Steven Seagal action flick "Under Siege", had been released on 9 October, with Disney family film "The Mighty Ducks" having been released on the 2nd. November 1992 would be no less busy film-wise, with "Passenger 57", "Aladdin", "Malcolm X", "The Bodyguard" and "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" all going on general release during the month. It is perhaps not surprising therefore that "There Goes the Neighborhood" came and went from US cinemas quite quickly.

As of 1 December 2007, some 349 individual users of the IMDB website had given this film a weighted average vote of 5.2. Of those reviewers who expressed a general opinion on the film, most are in broad agreement that although it has some funny moments, the assembled cast is capable of better things, though co-star Hector Elizondo is usually singled out in particular for special praise with some of the funniest lines in the movie.