5/5 Smart House (dvd)
  by Karen
Family movie which is a good movie. You have to watch it if you love disney movies well you sure will love this dvd too.

5/5 Cool movie for the whole family
  by Reviewer
I first saw "Smart house" on the Disney Channel and loved it. I do admit it took me a while to decide if I wanted to record it but I finally did. But I also purchased the DVD from the Disney online store. My mom, brother and I enjoyed it. It might seem boring to some, so I suggest you rented first to see it or wait till it comes on the Disney channel but for me, I loved it. It's so awesome to see the cool features the house has. I just wished they showed more.

2/5 Not as good as claimed
  by Emily Dekelly
As soon as I began playing the VHS tape it began to go fuzzy. This went away by the end of the previews. But this came back multiple times throughout the movie, it would lose tracking, all sound would go and the images would get blurry.

Since it stated that this tape 'played perfectly' I was quite upset. I wrote to the company, they acknowledged that I could return it by placing it back in the original shipping container and writing return to sender on it and placing it in a mailbox. I got a fair response, that place it in the container that way I would not have to pay for shipping back (I am not 100% of what my refund would be, since I paid $3 for shipping and only $1.50 for the tape, I doubt I would get the bulk of my money back.)

I chose to order from this particular company due to them stating that it played well, but that was a lie. I would not listen to their 'condition' reports. I believed I ordered this from Movie Revolution. It was not longer in its original case, and was obviously at a library for some time. It did, however, state that in its description.

5/5 Wish I lived in a house like this!
  by Rebecca (Massachusetts, USA)
SMART HOUSE is a great Disney Channel Original Movie. It is about a thirteen-year-old kid, Ben Cooper (Ryan Merriman) who lives with his single father and younger sister. Ben is sort of a computer brain--he's not a genius, but he goes nuts over computerized stuff. He tries to keep the family well-organized and on track so his father won't start dating other women and make them apart of their family, he thinks they don't need a new mother since their mother died. Anyway, Ben is always entering contests...hoping that someday, he'll win one of the contests and it will help make his family better. Ben enters a contest which the winner receives a brand-new house that is totally computerized--nobody has to do anything, there is a computer that does it all for them. Ben surprisingly wins this contest, and he and his family moves into it. Sarah Barnes (Jessica Steen) is the woman who created this house invention. And when Ben's father starts dating her, Ben gets upset because he thinks that his father will marry Sarah and Ben doesn't want a new mom. Then, when the computerized home, which has a voice called P.A.T. (Katey Sagal), gets out of control, P.A.T. turns into the form of a woman who claims to be the Ben and his sister's mother and tries to take over the house and the family! Ben, his father, his sister, and Sarah Barnes must stop P.A.T. from ruining the house and the Coopers.

This was a very fun movie, and LeVar Burton from "Star Track" fame directs it. Though kind of unrealistic, but who really cares? The acting is great, especially from Ryan Merriman and Katey Sagal. There are lots of great special effects in this movie, and the dialouge is really good. I liked SMART HOUSE a lot and all Disney Channel Original Movies fan should own this one!

4/5 Fun Made for TV Movie
  by (middleburg hts., oh USA)
Yes, the movie concept is highly unlikely. However, we are talking about Disney, and they are willing to stretch a persons imagination. This movie does just that.

Katie Sagal gives an excellent performance as Smart House...well, the disembodied voice of Smart house. Well, Disembodied until towards the end...Watch the movie to see what I mean.

Also, Ryan Merriman (Ben Cooper), gives an superb performance was a very self-disciplined, angry young man. His mother is dead, and he and his sister and father have done well since her passing. Ryan is the one that keeps the family washed, feed and ready for each day. This young Actor [merriman], is such a sight to watch. For a young man of 17, he is a fantastic site to see on the screen. His acting is top rate. He could be pulling in bigger roles. I hope to see more of him in the future.