Ellie Kemper plays a mother named Pam, and Rob Delaney plays her husband, Jeff. And thanks mostly to Joe Pesci, they provided so many laughs for the audience, that they didn't need a backstory or humanization.īut the script is flipped a little in this reboot. They were just thieves robbing house after house on Kevin's block. In "Home Alone," the movie didn't really establish any backstory for Harry and Marv. Though he lacks the heart of young Macaulay Culkin, "Home Sweet Home Alone" actually takes some of the focus off Max and places it on the would-be burglars. I thought he'd be awful, but honestly, his sass is pretty humorous. Devin Ratray made me chuckle with his two scenes.įor some reason, Kevin has been replaced by a British kid named Max (Archie Yates) in this film, even though it still takes place in Chicago. In fact, Disney even got the actor who played Buzz (Kevin's older brother) in the first two films to reprise his exact role as a police officer in this movie. Just in the first couple of minutes, "Home Sweet Home Alone" establishes it's going to be an equal mix of sass and callbacks to the (good) "Home Alone" movies. Maybe my heart grew three sizes that day. And even though I'll never watch this movie again, I can appreciate parts of it. So how could rebooting the franchise possibly produce anything good? Well, I'm surprised to report that although it's not a great movie, "Home Sweet Home Alone" gave it a solid effort. And the final two are made-for-TV trash that aren't worth the digital ink used to mention their existence on this page. Some of y'all may not know this, but there are actually five "Home Alone" movies. So when I read that Disney was rebooting "Home Alone," you can imagine the skepticism that immediately blanketed my mind. There's just a real staying power for them. I feel like since '90s kids grew up with these movies they'll always be part of the zeitgeist for us. At the top of the list? "Home Alone" and "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York." As I've gotten older, the holidays have come to mean less to me, but even I have a couple of must-watch movies. Hughes and Gosnell went above and beyond.Some people celebrate the 25 days of Christmas with all their favorite holiday films ranging from "Elf" to "Miracle on 34th Street" (pick your version). But the movie's true backbone is arguably the creativity in the traps set for the villains. Linz is the best kid performer in the franchise since Culkin. "Home Alone 3" proves that it's all about putting a spin on the original and casting a great lead. It leads to loads of hilarious hijinks as the three try to get the microchip from the very clever Alex and fail miserably. Linz) is home sick with chickenpox when he gets embroiled in an international incident as four terrorists (Olek Krupa, Rya Kihlstedt, Lenny Von Dohlen, and David Thornton) are trying to get a microchip embedded inside a remote-control car that has ended up in Alex's possession. Even with the director of the first two movies, Chris Columbus, exiting and being replaced by "Never Been Kissed" helmer Raja Gosnell, it's Hughes' attachment that proves vital.Įight-year-old Alex (Alex D. This is a pretty solid sequel, thanks in large part to franchise creator John Hughes who wrote the script. You could make the argument that "Home Alone 3" is so lousy that it led to the franchise taking the made-for-TV plunge as this is the last "Home Alone" to date to be released in theaters. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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