I feel like part of the reason we don't mind seeing the burglars in Home Alone get messed up is that they would absolutely kill Kevin when given the chance. Like, they're set up as pretty evil people (to an almost absurd degree), and based on their reactions throughout the movie (especially at the end when they do catch Kevin), you get the sense that the kid's life is 100% in danger if his traps don't work. But these poor parents trying to save their house? You cannot convince me they are any sort of threat, so the comical level of violence that gets thrown at them is just horrific instead of darkly funny karma. You also need cartoonish characters if you're going to be subjecting them to cartoonish levels of violence, and this movie completely fails in that regard.
@@ddjsoyenby Meanwhile the McKenzies (the antagonists) don't actually want to go through with it and don't want anyone to get hurt, so with the fact that they're are also struggling financially and do it only to support their kids, it's messed up.
Exactly, one of the burglars at the end just wants to cut Kevin's fingers and burn him and just he's an absolute piece of shit But I can't in all honesty see this struggling family whose going to lose everything get beat up by this brat
But like, at the same time if the struggling couple just knocked on their door and told the mom she probably would’ve made the kid give the doll back. And if the kid was just home alone they could threaten to call the police, either scaring the obnoxious child into giving the doll back or just ruining his whole family’s trip bc it’s negligent to leave a child alone like that. There’s so many alternatives that the movie just seems fake either way.
@@rachelmichele7697 there's something called suspension fo disbelief. we can do that for them deciding to rob the place, but the breaker is the violence doesn't equal the crime or people doing the "crime". also all you mention is the same for the first movie but people still love the first movie. know why? they were able to make it entertaining enough and hit the more important aspects so you would be able to suspend your disbelief. a lot of that movie was also unrealistic or unbelievable, but in a way, they still tried to reasonably explain certain things, and distract from others and the overall product was enjoyable. the main aspect of this movie is violence against bad people. but that is what's wrong so of course the whole movie just feels wrong.
The original Home Alone worked so well because the buildup was executed PERFECTLY. The robbers were shown as goofballs who share one braincell and have comically absurd reactions to walking into Kevin's traps, but they're also portrayed as sinister criminals who take pleasure in ransacking and trashing people's houses, which makes it SO satisfying to watch them get outwitted by a child. This movie completely fails in that because no one wants to see individuals who clearly don't have malicious intentions get beat up by a spoiled rich kid.
@@gagne6928 Well they were trying to actually kill him, plus that guy is built like a bunker. What would normally kill a normal person he walked off like it was a headache. If someone was trying to kill me then I wouldn't hold back either.
having recently rewatched it, the movie is a classic because it gives a satisfying emotional arc to follow that leads into the goofy climax. kevin is a helpless idiot who sincerely thinks he is responsible for his family being gone, and tries to step up to take care of himself and his house in their stead. there are reasons given for why he can't call the cops right away, and it shows his family making every effort to get home to him. the burglars are inflicting suffering on themselves by refusing to leave this house, instead of being forced to stay by financial hardship. and in the end, kevin gets caught because he IS just a kid, and, his traps are more annoying than effective. he needs the help of the old man he bonded with, and his mom, and the rest of the family. this new movie feels like the execs and writers behind it haven't seen the original in years and were like "what was home alone about again? traps and stuff right?", and made this sadistic soulless nightmare.
I also think it's worse because in the original home alone, the burglars reactions were cartoonish so you never felt that bad for them but their reactions in this movie was just how a person would react irl. it's like if in the coyote and roadrunner cartoon, when the road runner squishes the coyote they show his funeral and his orphaned children sobbing, it's not fun when they make it even close to realistic
@@strangeactuallylegume ever since I was a child, I always rooted for Kevin’s side when it came to his family, because every argument was them being genuinely unfair to him as the second youngest.
The thing is, in the first Home Alone movie, Kevin didn't actually win on his own. The wet bandits actually caught him, and he would have been finished if the neighbor hadn't shone up to rescue him. At no point in this film does the couple turn the tables on Max. They just flail pathetically the whole time.
Also they get actually physically bruised in this but in the original they show no sign of damage as they go on so it seems disgusting as this kid pushes these 2 to the brink of death
@@ProjectLethargic I think you need to watch the original again. Marv gets a blowtorch to his head and is bald with a burnt hat and Harry has a limp for the rest of the movie from a nail in the foot and that's just two things. The only real difference is that the damage is a little more cartoony looking in the original.
The fact that we like Kevin is because he was introduced as a lonely child who has been left alone for Christmas by his family. He was funny, likeable and had real reactions a child would of someone breaking into their house.
Yep, and even when he acted like a brat, it was still in a believable "this is an 8 year old" type of way. Max on the other hand straight up tries to steal from kids in need, and nothing in the movie ever humanized him enough to make up for that.
Kevin was not only lonely, but he was bullied pretty heavily by his other family members, even adults. It's really easy for kids and adults alike to sympathize with being unheard and disliked. This kid in the remake is so spoiled that he actively avoids his family as opposed to Kevin wanting to fit in but not. It deletes the kid's character arc which makes him into a brat and extremely flat as a character, which is why I think a lot of people are calling him scary. There is no motivation and no reason for the audience to sympathize or like him.
Plus had endearing moments like ordering the pizza but being too scared to use his kid voice or the running around aimlessly because you have so much to do and don't even know where to start becsuse you're an energetic little kid. Max is just a miserable, misanthropic 80 year old in the body of an annoying kid
True, and while some may argue that the moral lesson in the ending of Home Alone 2 felt quite off, it's still wholesome to see Kevin donating to the toy store and selflessly saying the kids in the hospital deserved it more since he'd just spend the money on candy. Not to mention, Kevin set all the traps in his uncle's vacant house all for the sake of preventing the wet bandits from robbing the toy store, which in a way shows that Kevin sees the toy store and the kids in the hospital as important as his own house and family.
the part where the mom lays down and sobs was just heartbreaking all they were trying to do was save their family without hurting anyone and this little prick came around and starting setting them on fire
This movie feels like watching a court recording of a homeless person stealing bread from a shop, and the whole audience is laughing at the fact that he’s going prison.
Just to drive home (no pun intended) how the people that make these movies still live in a bubble even after all the shit that happened in the last few years.
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I think it's also worth mentioning that in the first movie, the robbers are bringing it on themselves because they could totally leave at any time. Nothing is keeping them there, so the suffering they go through is totally their fault. But if they establish that this family is going through financial troubles, and are about to lose their house, and they have good reason to believe that they're recovering their own stolen property that would let them keep their house; yeah no, they kinda can't just leave. It adds a greater weight of emotion to that scene where the lady breaks down in tears after being set on fire, it tells the audience that she feels trapped and has no other options; that those are tears brought on by months of stress culminating in maybe the worst night of her life. That isn't funny unless you're a psychopath.
@@fellowship9253 thank you for writing this, I agree with you. And before she cries and she's running with her shoes on fire there's goofy music in the background??? Like, how is this funny ? How can anyone find this funny ? This woman is having a breakdown because she feels trapped in an awful situation and has been for months ,it's getting worse because the doll that they could sell is missing and the shitty kid who they think stole it isn't cooperating with them.
Hi, id suffered a psychipathic personality disorder for years now, this shit isnt funny at all for me or for anyone. (Sorry for my English, not My Main languaje)
I really like Ellie Kemper's character in The Office and relate to her a lot, so seeing someone who I somewhat associate myself with break down like that really hurts me.
The reason WHY we rooted for Kevin against the Wet Bandits was because the Wet Bandits were actually awful people. Harry and Marv were actual robbers and we even see them scoping out the houses to hit to make as much money as possible. Heck, in the second movie Harry was about to KILL Kevin, and they would of probably done the same to him if they caught him in the first movie! Can't have any witnessess ratting them off. We also rooted for Kevin because while he was a bit of a jerk at times, he's no where as bad as his family. And he also had moments where he could be sympathetic to others like the old man and the homeless woman, and that allowed us to fear for him when these dangerous people were about to enter his home. We shouldn't be cheering for the robbers to kill a little kid and take everything he and his family owns. Honestly, the McKenzie's should of SUED Max's family for all the damage Max did to them!
@@TheDoctorShun Yes, to be fair, they were still commiting a crime, but they had no intention to harm Max, and they only broke into the house because they thought Max stole the doll (that was their property in the first place) that would of saved their home, and they had no options left. What Max did to them _could_ be clasified as self-defence in a court of law, but what he did to those two could of injured them for life or even kill them. And as far as the couple knew, Max was in the wrong for stealing, so I guess both sides are at fault.
@@TheDoctorShun that pool ball gun and the setting them on fire were clearly lethal traps that in a court of law would be classified as lethal weapons. You cannot use lethal force on a trespasser unless you truly feel your life is at stake, and in the movie, Max was clearly not in fear for his life, so yeah, it would actually be a pretty easy case if they had the camera footage. Also illegal to booby trap your house
it only worked when the burglars were comically evil. now they're making them seem like well-meaning but desperate people, and the kid is some sadist that loves to torture poor people.
Overly sympathetic villains has been the most annoying fad in recent stories. I’m not saying sympathetic villains are always bad, far from it, but it feels like every single villain recently has had some tragic background that attempts to justify heinous actions. Red Dead Redemption 2 was kidnof refreshing, having multiple greedy, selfish, evil villains.
This movie is actually about Hollywood finally admitting that they don't like poor people "Yes, we will torture this struggling family using cartoony sounds and slapstick comedy, and we are not going to apologize for it."
IKR LMAOAO adn they were only breaking into the house to try and get back the one thing that could keep their family from losing their home ???????????????
this movie would work so well as an actual horror film that's just "this psycho child saw Home Alone and wanted to torture folks just like that" so he actually and intentionally stole the doll to lure them into his Saw traps
A thing I noticed is. Even when this is a year old. Kevin's traps were always barriers to prevent them from getting IN. The hot doorknob, and ice? To discourage them from entering. It was always keeping them away until they got way farther into the house
Exactly. The more extreme traps the Wet Bandits endure (like the paintcans, the tripwire and the toys at the stairway) when they actually get into the house were simply last resorts if they actually managed to get further into the home. Kevin's main priority when it came to the traps was to not let them in or drive them away from coming in (the ice, the doorknob, the ornaments and the flamethrower)
He even tried to deter them with his scene faking an entire family in the house. Like, hurting them wasn’t his original plan, he had to do his traps as a sort of last resort when they still plan to break in
Remember in home alone when Kevin said he didn’t want toys and just wanted his parents? Remember in the second one when his motivation was to stop the robbers from stealing charity money and saying “you can’t mess with kids on Christmas” But nah, let’s have Max steal gifts for poor kids at a church. What a wonderful protagonist. Sure, Kevin was a bratty kid but he developed and tried to help others in both movies.
i totally agree. most people forget that kevin believes that he has wished away his family and doesnt know that they just forgot him in home alone 1, so him wishing for his family back seems a lot more impactful and shows his development a lot better.
I barely saw the other home alones but the ones prior to the one covered in the video had the same concept of Home Alone 1, correct? Where'd they go wrong? Edit: I went to Google to see the plots of Home 3 - 5, they are different but the kid is trying to do something good.
@@180fJC i only saw up to the 3rd one and to be honest I like it. The kid stays home alone because of chicken pox & his mom has to go to work but I forget why the robbers break into his house
This movie feels like movie executives saw the last 3 home alone flop and concluded that the problem wasn't that they were boring, rather that the villains didn't have a sad origin story.
The 3rd I think was pretty decent. I appreciated that it wasn't a kid being literally forgotten for days, it's just a kid doing kid things during school hours because he has chickenpox. The reason for his family's absence made perfect sense, as did how he came into possession of the chip and the robbers' reason to steal it from him. I also think them having 4 robbers instead of 2 opened up a lot of opportunities for them creatively. All in all, the 3rd wasn't bad and I'll die on the hill that it was good. First 2 need no introduction and the rest is abysmal at best.
I feel like the fact that more people have fallen onto hard times financially these past few years due to the pandemic and inflation and such makes this even more fucked up. The people who made this had to have known this and yet they did it anyway.
This was my exact thought too!! Like who was the target audience ?? The kids who grew up watching the originals are now adults (most likely millenials) who are struggling along with everyone else they know because of the pandemic. I can’t think of one person who would enjoy it
As for the nerf gun trap, the pain is severe. I once had a friend who shoved tiny pins into his nerf darts and shot me twice, and the fact that Pam was shot so many times was terrible
@@katharineball585 to be fair it was more my idea, we wanted to see how bad it was and we were big idiots. I also stood still and was like “SHOOT ME”, so yeah
@@cokeandcheese.6617 I get it but I don't know why people are acting like this movie is so much different than the original LOL. Kevin McAllister was also a rich kid. He was also a shit head. We just thought it was funny. And we don't have to go too deep into this but marv and harry.... Yeah they were thieves and they were jerks. But I mean wha t does that come from? It comes from poor people needing. Unless it's organized crime theft is usually done out of necessity. I know this wasn't entirely the case for Marv and Harry but either way lol Kevin McAlister was a rich kid and they were poor criminals. He could have just called the cops. but then I guess that would mean the movie would only be 20 mins long. Lol. His traps were pretty gruesome as well. If we wanted to REALLY pick it a part like we are here. Most criminals come from underprivileged communities and have experienced some type of trauma or multiple trauma in their lives, statistically speaking. Definitely doesn't give Marv and Harry and excuse to be assholes and rob every rich person they come across. But I feel the dynamic is similar. Different in a lot of ways but overall kind of similar. I know people aren't going to agree with this. And I agree that this version is a lot more uncomfortable because the couple aren't criminals and I think we can all relate to them. I guess all I'm saying is the dynamic is the same in the first movie. Either way. They're just movies. And to be honest I think the only reason why this is getting a bad reaction is because we're older now and we can pick apart these things and look a little deeper. But honestly like my kids wouldn't know a difference. They would be excited with either one. They got the job done.
+ Eliana Zuniga How was the first one and this movie exactly alike? Well okay I get that the kids are both rich and alone, but Kevin wasn’t a bad kid. He was just tired of always getting picked on and living in a house with a lot of people. He also never stole anything and he was really nice to most people. In the first one he helped a man get over his fear of calling his daughter, and in the second one he made a new best friend (with a woman that scared him a bit at first) and gave her a Christmas gift. And Kevin DID call the cops. But they didn’t believe him because he was just a kid and they couldn’t find the criminals. In this one the kid is spoiled, annoying, a lier, and just mean. Sure in the first one the criminals were poor but they were still bad. In this one they just wanted a doll. They didn’t want to cause any harm, they just wanted money to feed their kids. And I _kinda_ agree with people not liking this just because they’re all grown up now and aren’t use to this, but even if this was the first one I watched, I would still hate it and wouldn’t be able to even finish it with how cringe it is. (But that’s just my opinion)
the producers behind this really asked “hey, is anybody going to horrifically torture these struggling poor people?” and then didn’t wait for an answer
The dumb thing is that their parents forgot their only child. In the original the parents had a shit ton on children to keep track of, so their attention was divided amongst many children and its conceivable how one could slip your mind. But even with a ton of relatives over, if you have 1 child you are not going to forget that one child. I feel like this is stating the obvious but... this movie exists.
im glad it was ultimately a happy ending for the family but this movie genuinely pissed me off. The scene of the mom crying almost made ME cry- this poor mom is just trying to feed her kids and keep her house and she's going through all of this shit for them, she probably felt so hopeless
The original Home Alone was good because even though they had a bunch of “scary” traps, the robbers, who were comical antagonists we were all rooting against, had equally comical, unrealistic reactions. They would just scream or something. I forwarded my way through this movie because their reactions felt so much realer and I felt really bad for them.
The other thing is "the wet bandits" could have left at any time. They could have given up and fled. Their suffering was entirely motivated by a selfish greed that caused them to continue to pursue, eventually with the goal of hurting Kevin. Here? If they don't literally walk through this deathtrap they lose everything. It's a literal home alone Squid Game.
That’s exactly it. The director/actors knew how to turn scary situations into comedic gold by overplaying the reactions, sound effects and camera angles. Like bringing a looney tunes short to life. This movie just has wide angles and muted sound effects, which leave little to the imagination. It doesn’t look cartoonish, it looks genuinely painful, and in context that’s a bad thing. When Saw came out, people joked that it was Home Alone played straight. Almost twenty years later, Home Alone is Saw played for laughs. Realistic isn’t always better.
yeah the part where she was just crying in the snow hit me hard, she’s just trying to support her family and this rich spoiled brat is torturing her for something that she didn’t even want to do
@@magnumbeefus it was probably because he overheard them and thought they were trying to kidnap and sell him. he probably assumed that they were lying when they said they dont mean harm.
@@magnumbeefus he saw them talking to the police men, and thought his mom would go in jail for leaving him home alone the misunderstandings are dumb af
@@morgan0__o forgot about that at time of writing. Honestly though that's the only reasonable thing imo. A stupud kid thinking that his mom would go to jail for child neglect is pretty reasonable for someone that age. I think what i was getting at is the fact that he was so desperate he would literally rather hospitalize these innocent people than call the cops. What kinda insane bullshitery is that? Kid definitely kills hamsters on his spare time lmao.
My brain wasn't functioning for a second and I read this while a Harry Potter ad was playing before the video so I was sitting here trying to figure out how Voldemort was a "genuinely good person". Lmfao
In the original, Kevin is a bit of a brat, but you understand where he's coming from because his family was usually mean to him. In this version, Kevin is a complete brat to his family, and you end up hating him more than the antagonists. Did Harry and Marv write this movie?
Right? He was one of six children and his older brother was a dick. So was his uncle. So he was sometimes bratty. Like him wishing they'd all disappear or shoving Buzz and knocking over glasses of milk made a ton of since.
The movie was written before the pandemic, it was also shot a few months before the pandemic but also during the pandemic by the end of 2020. Why do I know that? Well it's because I worked on it lol
@@elliot2758 I only worked there during the pandemic, wasn’t really allowed on set and the protocols were strict, saw the actors and Archie Yates aka Max and his family were really nice, nicer than the character lol
@@shawnfournier19 Did any of you think that maybe this movie goes a little too far with how the premise is "rich kid tortures poor people"? Sorry for being rude, this was just depressing to watch
God, can you imagine the board room meeting for this movie? “Now, listen. We all know that the last… two… three Home Alone movies were huge flops. But I’ve got an idea that’ll knock your socks off: what if, the movie is about a struggling middle-class family being tortured by a rich British child?” “Yeah, sure.” “Why not?” “What could go wrong?”
@@ratgobblerwhy are you being snarky about it? If you didn't care, you wouldn't have taken the time to specify what class the characters had. Everyone makes mistakes. Chill
As someone with younger siblings, I can confidently say this movie isn't even appealing to CHILDREN. My brother and sister were complaining the entire time about how boring and cardboard it was, and how annoying Max was. Even other eleven year olds don't like this spoiled rich kid.
Even though the Mcalisters were obviously rich, they at least made Kevin relatable. He was the scrappy underdog who was being unfairly treated by his family and he tried to do the right thing to protect his home and get his family back while also facing his fears. I also think the casting of Joe Pessci as one of the main villains also worked to their benefit due to his history of playing the bad guy in adult movies.
ikr, my brother is ten and watched it with his other ten-year-old friends (all of them act like theyre eight too tbh) and they hated it; my brother just came home complaining about how bad it was
Part of what made the original one feel better, even though there were some graphic moments, was the fact that the Wet Bandits were actually out to steal from Kevin's house. They were designed to be unpleasant, legitimate thieves, so that we would root for Kevin, and laugh at their pain. They were definitely going to hurt Kevin if they got the chance, and they probably would've in the first movie, if it wasn't for the neighbor showing up. Not to mention, a lot of their reactions were overly comical, not realistic at all. This one just feels horrible, because the parents weren't trying to harm anyone or steal, they were just a poor family who were trying to get back something they thought Max had stolen. The realistic reactions to getting hurt, coupled with their already troubled lives, and the fact that they showed the mother CRYING... I can't watch this one. It hurts to watch.
@@br_uh8604 And in the second movie they tried to kill him again (in the park) but luckily the gun was clogged with a sticky substance and the Pigeon Lady helped Kevin escape
Exactly. Like, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia has a lot of awful things happen to its protagonists, but it's funny because they're terrible people who deserve the worst life has to offer. Painful slapstick inflicted upon characters we care about and want to win isn't funny, it's upsetting. Give us a reason to laugh at their pain, not sympathize with their plight.
When you remake the same movie 6 TIMES, its not the same. I only watched the first one and this looks like someone tried to copy it but failed miserably. Its not even the same kid anymore. What were they even thinking?
I watched this movie almost exactly one year ago today(literally tomorrow is one year) and after I watched this movie and I got sick for 3 straight weeks. I got a Covid and flu test and I was negative for both. Almost a year later this video pops up in my recommended. I watch the first 10 seconds of this video and I see that you also got sick after watching it. So now I think that have to call this movie a disease.
The worst part of the crying in the show scene is how accurate the crying is. You can hear the slight stutter as they try to cry even though they aren’t breathing enough to, she also kinda chokes for a second on their spit because they’re laying down, which I can say is very accurate. Why did they have to do this.
I went to the comments during the ad before the video so by time the video started I was already expecting some things, and seeing the crying it’s like holy shite you’re right that’s so sad
Another reason why Ellie Kemper is too good to be a main role in this movie Also, she plays such sweet characters, Erin from The Office, Kimmy Schmidt, it's hard to watch a little kid beat the shit out of her, not like Joe Pesci lol
"This is gonna be even funnier cuz they probably don't have health insurance" You pretty much nailed it, Danny, that's exactly what the writers were thinking
The writers were like, “You know what would REALLY be a cool remake? Having the kid set up Saw traps on innocent, struggling people. That’ll do numbers baby.”
@@MrMac6375 ...no, they didn't. a little brat stole something insanely expensive from them and they were trying to get it back so that they could feed their family. the torture max put them through was pretty much completely undeserved... don't know what your thinking process is.
There's a major plothole that was never addressed, and it's kind of necessary for any home alone movie to work. It's a reason for the police to be absent. In Home Alone, the power lines broke the night before the Mcalisters left, and the telephone cables were broken until the story was almost over. This is important to have so the kid doesnt come off as either stupid or demented for making traps to torture a couple of burglars rather than alert the cops. Knowing Max, hes probably so deranged, he probably wouldn't call the police if given the chance.
If i remember correctly there is a scene in hone alone where the police check the house if anyone is home but kevin is too scared to open the door or something like that
I think that's why 1) they specify that they don't have a landline, and 2) his internet access is cut off. Since he's a kid, he doesn't have a cell phone, and he can't contact anyone from the computer either.
Nit to mention, in the original, the cops didn't help they showed up and didn't do anything. The burglars originally disguised themselves as cops too, furthering his distrust in them. He stole a toothbrush in panic mode and he's 7 he's probably afraid of the consequences too. Even with working phones, he didn't have a reason to trust the police.
If this movie was really going for realism (which seems to be the case with the struggling family and their realistic reactions to all the torment they endure), Max would have called the cops and they simply wouldn't have taken him seriously. Maybe they'd tell him to call back when he's in actual danger or something. This is something real police have said to reports of domestic violence and stalking reports on numerous occasions, so yeah. Would definitely sour the mood of a family comedy and all, but having a rich kid put a poor couple through Saw-level torture traps already achieves that.
My griefs with this are as follows (forgive me for beating a dead horse at this point): The Mackenzies are good people who are trying to provide for their two children and take back what’s theirs, even though Max didn’t have the doll. That’s what the intent was, to make things even and help their own family. HOLY SHIT THE SPECIAL EFFECTS AND TRAPS. They physically hurt to even think of, as soon as Danny mentioned the nerf gun with push pins I had to pause the video to freak out. It was so disgusting to even picture, especially with the special effects. In the first Home Alone, we don’t see the Wet Bandits’ true reactions AFTER the traps. Even in the moment, their responses are comical because they aren’t realistic. Harry, when he burns his head, holds it for an unrealistic amount of time and sticks his head in the snow. That, especially for kids, is funny because clearly nobody would just stand under a flame thrower for 10 seconds and throw their head into a pile of snow. In this new movie we see them CRY and have REALISTIC reactions, and it feels too real, especially when these people taking the hits don’t deserve them. Harry and Marv were cartoon supervillain level evil, they deserved what was coming to them… mostly. I still can’t watch the part with the nail tbh (or the bricks in the second movie). The rich parents had one child in this movie. Max. In the original(s) Kevin is the youngest of a giant family who is isolated for bad behavior, and when the rest of the family gets frazzled, they forget to bring him back from his punishment because they’re too busy focusing on the fact that they’re late. In this one, the parents… forget their one son. Finally, it’s Ellie Kemper. Ellie Kemper! I could never root against her, even if her character was unspeakably evil. *TL;DR:* I don’t like this movie because the robbers aren’t mean, the SE and reactions feel too real, the traps are sadistic, the parents had no realistic reason to forget Max, and Ellie Kemper is too sweet to be rooted against.
This is a kid friendly version of Saw. Some crazy maniac convinced he's in the moral right puts people through terrible traps just because their life isn't perfect.
@@BurnTheTeddy at this point i feel like that’s actually the purpose of the movie. there’s no way this is just some fun family movie, and there’s definitely some social commentary. i refuse to believe that they would depict burglars as struggling parents who desperately need money competing with a rich kid who is automatically ready to defend himself and constantly has a better position if it was a funny family movie. i feel crazy for saying that, but it genuinely seems super strange that they would script it the way they did if they weren’t trying to say something
My friends younger sister legit CRIED when watching the movie. She didn't like the idea of some poor people getting tortured. Quote on quote "They didn't do anything! He stole from them!"
atleast that shows you that shes a good or atleast decent person cause had she enjoyed seeing them get into traps and stuff would just feel wrong atleast to me
The movie is awful, and the family obviously didnt deserve that, but "they didnt do anything"? Really? You cant just break into someone's house because you merely suspect that they stole something from you. The kid is even worse than them, but to say they did nothing wrong is kind of ridiculous.
@@perperperpen funny coz cops definitely can. Sure they're not cops, but cops are just civilians. They're not soldiers. If they can do it why can't we?
@@christopherreichle6670 that is the most ridiculous argument. A cop is a civilian that is paid to fight crime. They arent "just" civilians. Its their job and they are trained to do it. "Why cant we?" Because you arent trained to be a police officer lmfao. If a police officer is "just a civilian" then why dont you "just" get a job as a police officer and then you'll be allowed to enter people's homes, which is a weird desire in the first place. Secondly, the police wouldnt even be allowed to enter their home in this case. They would need a warrant, which i doubt they could get because the only evidence against the kid is that the doll happened to go missing after he left.
People give Kevin a lot of flak for his traps, but I think Max is actual psycho here. He endlessly (and needlesly) tortures poor people, exploits charity for his own amusment and laughs all the way. He's pratically creating his own Squid Game here
They showed her desperately trying to shield her eyes and protect herself from a *POV*... That's just... You don't do horror POV if you don't want people to sympathise deeply!
The first home alone were funny, the burglars were stupid, they would indeed do horrible things if they could, and it was just funny to see them getting smacked in the head with a bowling ball or something. But this movie is just demented and scary
fr, like those traps are low key horrifying but not in a comedic way, and I had genuine sympathy for the parents being subjected to all the traps because like...wtf.
One of the reasons I hate Max is because of the fact that he basically tortures the parents who is rich and spoilt whilst Kevin was just an ordinary kid in a large house with lots of family around him for his entire life, being mentally abused and told he is worthless, which eventually leads to him being quite psychotic but in the end he realises that actually he does appreciate his family. On the other hand Max is not in any danger (The Wet Bandits had the intentions of killing Kevin) and is more the antagonist than the protagonist. In the end Max is just a sick,spoiled brat who has been raised wrongly sp he doesn’t really care for anyone but himself whereas Kevin was just hurt and scared and abused, finally getting to let his anger out on someone.
Kevin being so good at taking care of himself (we dont really see that with Max) implies that Kevin often has to do that for himself already because no kid is just suddenly good at that stuff. And not only does Kevin appreciate his family more, his family respects him a lot more. They realize he's more mature than they thought.
12:14 He acts like Jigsaw from "Saw". "Well hello, no-income struggling parents of a family. You're desperate with moral reservations about robbing my house... You know who doesn't have reservations? My house."
at least saw only really did it to criminals and murderers and etc but these ''antagonists'' are just struggling middle class parents trying to get something max stole from them
This movie doesn’t even feel like a funny Home Alone Movie, it feels like just the writers made a movie for rich people to laugh at how much the working class is struggling to be finically stable. It’s just some unenjoyable horror fest that makes fun of families who are struggling to put food on the table. Not to mention they do it in a very comedic fashion to try and paint it as a funny thing.
Honestly. Which is such a dumb decision, considering that (especially with the pandemic) the vast majority of the audience will emphasise much better with the “villains” than with Max. Like, even if they’re not poor themselves, it’s just easier to emphasise/sympathise with them
That Nerf trap was pretty bad, but the most grotesque trap in Home Alone history is from the first Home Alone. Kevin elaborately puts tar on all the stairs in the basement, so one of the bandits is forced to take off his shoes and socks. Then, once he is barefoot, Kevin has a 4 inch nail pointing straight up to puncture his foot. How does a little kid even come up with that concept? There's so many steps to it
Don’t forget the ones in the second movie which would have realistically killed someone like…immediately. Kevin drops bricks on Marv’s head from a two/three story building multiple times, Marv gets electrocuted, a shelf falls on Marv and Harry’s head gets set on fire, they both get hit in the chest by a heavy ass weight that throws them so far back they fall down through the floor AGAIN. They probably had…so many broken bones. And probably inner bleeding.
@@circusclown1503 In Kevin's defense, they were literally trying to kill him so his traps getting deadlier make sense. But yeah a lot of traps from this movie are just lifted from the originals.
Given the IMDb synopsis for this movie is “A married couple tries to steal back a family heirloom from a troublesome child” makes me believe that yes we ARE supposed to root for the “robbers”. And Danny, don’t feel to bad for Mikey Day because he and Streeter Seidell are two SNL writers who wrote this abomination.
Yes if they are the good guys is explains a lot. Like why the kid is so bad and tries to take toys from poorer kids. But the. Shouldn’t he have some thing happen? I haven:t finished the video yet
Streeter Seidell?? As in Streeter Piefell?? (Jake and Amir fans know whats up) I’m so disappointed that he could write a movie like this and NOT see how weird it is. The genuine plight of the “burglars” and the completely unsympathetic cocky rich kid make the film feel so morally morbid! Totally bizarre!
To quote thee Kevin Mcalister: "You don't steal from kids on Christmas." (Literally the entire plot of the second movie. And that's exactly what Max was doing....Disgusting...
holy shit that scene where he steals from church is like,,, genuinely disturbing lol like ik kids don't always have a good understanding of what other people are going thru but the fact that he's THAT RICH and felt totally fine stealing toys from poor children.... like damn
i feel bad for this kid who’s gonna have this dark spot of a film on his resume forever….too bad his parents didn’t say anything about how damning the plot/script is
As a 42 year old with 3 kiddos I’m glad I watch these vids on occasion. No way in hell I’d let my children watch this movie (except when they’re old enough to watch a double feature of this and Die Hard). Probably wouldn’t have thought about it otherwise.
Die Hard is less mean-spirited and kid friendly I would say, even down to maybe a 12-year-old could enjoy. Because the morals aren’t upside down and warped like this trash.
This movie would be actually harder for me to watch than any horror movie out there. I know people say that a lot for certain non-horror movies but I really mean this. I would have actually lost my mind if I watched this. It's straight up demented and sadistic. This video was enough to make me mad, let alone seeing the actual movie.
i agree. i think the supposed naiveness of the whole thing. an horror movie KNOWS what it is about, but this is just pretending to be some innocent comedy for kids.
Yeah. I'm enraged just watching these clips. How was this idea made into a movie?! People are struggling now more than ever due to the pandemic and I'm supposed laugh watching poor ppl getting absolutely demolished by some snobby brat?!?? No thank you!!
same! honestly couldn’t watch it. i almost cried in up when he hit the construction worker, could not watch a movie that’s the 2-hour equivalent of that except the main character is a TOTAL dick with no justification for his actions
What really makes the first two Home Alone movies so good is that the audience roots for Kevin. Kevin is a good kid who risked his life to defend charity money. Max tried to steal from charity.
I didn't grow up watching Home Alone, and I'd never really felt like it once I was an adult. Watching an entire movie about a kid setting up elaborate traps didn't sound all that interesting to me. But I finally watched the film this year, and you know what? It ended up being a lot better than I expected it to be. I think the mistake that Home Alone rip-offs (and bad sequels) make is focusing all on making painful, unrealistic traps, when really that was only a small part of the original movie. There was a lot of heart in there too, watching Kevin have to take care of himself and learn to appreciate the people he had. I think the smaller character interactions, like he had with his neighbor, other random adults, and his mom's struggle to get back to him, add a lot to the story, and you can feel that human element missing when other movies take them away. When he finally does set up all the traps in the original, it's like the culmination of his arc, now that Kevin both is more capable and cares about his family home and protecting it (I also think the traps were more grounded than I think I expected, which I think made it more fun to watch). It makes the goofy slapstick climax have some meaning behind it, and I think that's what the newer ones are probably missing. And of course, as plenty of people pointed out, it's a lot easier to get behind watching a kid beat up dangerous cartoon bad guys than a struggling family who wants to save their home. Kinda hard to root for that.
The majority of Home Alone is spent getting the audience to like Kevin and hate the Wet Bandits, in preparation for the robbery scene, which as you said is a small part of the movie. Based on this video, the new one does exactly the opposite for some reason
Honestly I genuinely wonder if they set out to make "Home Alone but a horror movie" and executives made them change it into a family friendly thing. Like, the set-up is perfect for it. -The dynamic is rich vs poor, a thematic idea teeming with sociopathic tendencies and unrelatability. -They establish the child as being actively antisocial and so disconnected that he tries to steal from church donations -The parents have ferociously sympathetic reactions that seems to have little comedic intent in any context. I mean, who writes "extreme close-up on a character as they begin to sob" as a joke in a family comedy? -Violent traps actively inspired by the child watching cartoon violence Genuinely it seems so odd that I really think I could be right
The funny thing is, is that there's a big plot hole in the movie when its revealed that the nephew stole the doll, the doll went missing way before the robbers relatives came to visit them. You'd think that would be a hard thing to overlook when writing out the story 🤷🏾♀️
@@MuffledSword Maybe the nephew bit was just a redcon so that they didnt have to make the child-protagonist into an actual villain, instead of an implied one.
Lol the kid sucks but I think part of the issue with this movie is they didn’t lean hard enough into the kid being awful angle. Make the kid like cartman with even more homicidal tendencies and could’ve been better to watch
For some reason I kinda like that the big celebrities are insignificant roles. There's no movies with just anyone these days, and seeing all of the same people just feels like its for money (it is) and gets boring
though that's a nice thought, big actors also portrayed the main roles: Aisling Bea - who is a huge comedian in Ireland, that one Rob dude who is always on twitter, and the girl from the office and the unbreakable kimmy schmidt (i decided i wasn't going to do a quick google search to remind myself of the names)
I feel so bad for the kid actor. He did so amazing in Jojo Rabbit, he was actually able to make the viewer feel sympathetic with him but he was also really funny. This script just did him dirty.
The writer’s made the antagonists of the story seem so normal and so sad that it actually feels like it’s intentional, and that the kid is the actual antagonist, and it’s some social commentary about how the rich beat down the poor.
I think that angle could have worked of they had made the kid suck more, but they tried to make him sympathetic like in the first movie, which doesn't work when the villains are just normal people
The first home alone he was genuinely scared for his life only setting up the traps as he was being followed to his next hiding spot. This one is just sociopathic omg, the British accent makes it even worse
@@soccerruben1 My question is, why get an actor with a British accent at all? The Home Alone movies were always set with an American family, so seeing one with British accents kinda just feels weird.
Your being way too nice to these sickos. My parents took me and my little brother to watch this, and my brother starting crying because of how grotesque and horrid this awful movie is.
I remember watching a video and reading up on how superhero cartoons from the '90s tended to avoid stuff that kids could easily replicate in real-life, so Spider-Man: The Animated Series would always avoid showing Spider-Man actually punch somebody or people firing real guns (which could potentially be found around the house) instead of laser cannons or whatever, but he could subdue an enemy by causing a brick wall to collapse on them instead. But the Home Alone movies (especially this one) depict so much violence that could easily be replicated by a child in real-life, but with less cartoony, more dire consequences (such as lighting someone on fire or dropping a brick on their head).
@@Kyran1996 The whole point of home alone 1-3 (yeah 3 wasnt that bad guys) was that while the wet bandits, sticky bandets and russian spies attacks looked painful, they were also comical (except for the ornament, needle gun to the scrotum scenes and brick throwing ) like a scene from a looney tunes episode brought to life Edit: some touch ups on spelling and mentioning the russian spies Edit 2: adding the brick thrown scene stuff credits to sloppy phart
@@LocseryuOfficial the brick attack from Home Alone 2 wasn't comical at all. I love it now, but when I was a kid it really disturbed me because I thought it was real.
Me and my grandmother even watched the film, half way through she straight up said “this is stupid” and we turned it off. I can’t believe how badly written the Home Alone series has become
This honestly makes me sick, my aunt was in a similar situation and was really stressed. To just see the writers subject the couple to amounts of horrific pain, as well as bring legos and nerf guns and bad humor into the mix isn’t funny, it’s disgusting. Also the kid Max reminds me of that one kid in elementary school flexing his fort nite skins or whatever and they tried to make him sympathetic. They failed miserably.
The thing is that I think the movie writers are just a bunch of rich arseholes who dont have the ability to sympathise with those who have financial issues. Of course the chosen ones think the common man suffering is funny. Thats their brand of humor. We dont laugh at it because most people have a heart.
I already had enough hatred for the kid. But the church scene.. him being that wealthy and saying he’s a kid in need and stealing toys from kids that have nothing. In times especially like now after the pandemic with so many losing homes/jobs.. it rings so true for many people struggling. I really wanna know wtf the writers were thinking
I don't condone hitting a child, but if a kid got caught doing that at my church, they would get their shit rocked. especially if they're like 10+. they know better.
The first two home alone movies were gold. I watch them every year during Christmas time. But as time progressed, after Macaulay Culkin left the cast, everything went downhill. This movie is just sad and disappointing. In the first two movies the burgulars were actually big time robbers, but in this movie the “robbers” are just a poor family needing something back what was originally theirs.
TFP Megatron & Dreadwing are good examples of well written sympathetic villains. Dreadwing was an duty and honor driven while realizing that his leader has strayed so far from the original cause. Meanwhile Megatron is such a well written character with an amazing backstory. He is one of those characters who you just love to watch win, you love listening to him explain his plans and watching them come to fruition.
@@_____________a_a Dreadwing knew that terminating Starscream would most likely get him killed. But even then, Dreadwing was still the most honorable decepticon.
This movie came out around the same time as Encanto and the difference in characterization is HUGE. The “villain” (can’t even really call her a villain) caused a lot of pain, but she was just doing what she thought was right to protect her family. While in this movie, the “villains” were doing the same thing, and they were punished for it, as if they were just greedy and evil.
When I was about 12, I wrote a Home Alone sequel in which Kevin is now an adult and at every family gathering, his nieces and nephews always ask him to tell them the story of how he beat two burglars when he was a kid. When his niece is accidentally left home alone, she draws inspiration from these stories to stop some burglars. Again, I was 12 when I wrote this, not much older than the protagonists of the Home Alone movies. When a literal child writes a better movie than a bunch of professional screenwriters, there's an issue somewhere, and it's likely not with the kid.
(Forgot to put this last time, But the old man from the first movie, the bird lady from the second movie, and the other guy from the third movie deserve the world, best characters out of the entire franchise.) I remember even as a kid I found the original Home Alone Disturbing, I just found the intensity of the traps a bit much, but the the fact that the burglars WOULD kill kevin if they had the chance, as well as the fact of how stupid the burglars were. But this just made me sick honestly. Edit: Haha didn’t think this would blow up, so I want to add some other stuff too. The thing that specifically made me uncomfortable at times when the traps were used on the burglars is: 1) The intensity of the traps, specifically how they were brutal, but didn’t seem like 1 trap was enough to kill, causing the burglars to be in pain, but not enough pain to die. 2) Because even though 1 trap wasn’t enough to kill, any *normal* person would most-likely be dead after going through all of them, or at least knocked out. *Normal.* But the thing is, the burglars aren’t normal. Their pain is showed in a cartoonish way, even though they have gone through brutal pain multiple times, they get up, hell bent on finding this kid, while the obvious decision they should make is to leave while they still can. I think the notion of that gave me comfort, like yeah, they couldn’t have expected the first couple traps, but after like 10? The burglars are practically bringing this on to themselves by continuing their hunt to find Kevin. Not to mention we barely get any backstory on the Burglars, so we just assume there just shitty guys who do this for the money, with no real justifiable reason. But the “burglars” in this movie? We get a backstory for them, and we get a pretty justifiable reason too. And it’s cause if they don’t get the doll back, they will literally be homeless and not have any money. They hesitate too. Its also because they think Max stole something from them. Anyway, yeah that’s it. If I think of anything else I’ll edit this comment again.
Also we feel bad for Kevin as we saw how poorly he was treated by his family beforehand and the fact that once they are gone he acts like a pretty ok kid, he even does stuff like walk to and from the grocery store for food. He only feels like he has to resort to these traps because he is a scared kid
Home alone was made to be a brat movie the writer wanted that to be shown you can see it in his earlier movies but I guess it’s not for everyone 🤷🏽♀️ i mean the traps were made to be childish but the falls and the screams made it more realistic maybe to realistic for some
There's also the fact that the burglars are treated as cartoons, not real people. The excessive violence they're subject to does not have realistic consequences nor realistic responses. At no point does the original Home Alone try to make you perceive the villains as human beings deserving empathy, but instead as cartoon characters getting punished for their offenses.
I didn’t even know there was a new home alone movie. After hearing about how for once the thieves were just friendly people in a tough situation I now just feel sad about this movie and what one of my favourite movies has gone to.
If anyone was wondering how Hollywood really feels about working families, this should clear it up. Feel better, Danny. Greg will be here when you get back!
I actually hated all the characters in this movie equally because it's poorly written and all 3 characters make bad decisions based on stupid assumptions. Actual working class families that proceed to do what this couple did, would also belong in jail.
@@yawninglion1677 It is breaking an entering but the literal torture they were put through is enough of a punishment I think. The mom literally had her feet set on fire.
@@missserenity1090 Oh, they still broke the law, sure. I just disagree that they'd actually end up in jail IRL especially if they just took the doll back and fled. And yeah, the torture was way overboard.
The fact that the robbers are just a misunderstood middle-class couple is super sad. The protagonist is unsympathetic and the antagonists are well motivated. It's like if Walter White in Breaking Bad was a good guy, doing crimes to save their family.
but it's like in this movie walt sells meth with jesse and they both become paralyzed waist down and hank just shoots walt's jaw off after 1 day of him selling meth for no reason
Home alone with competent robbers: Woah the door handle is hot *kicks it down* Oh watch there's toy cars Hey are you ready for more? I've got a spider up here *bang* Cool now we got no witnesses
My mom made us all watch it. She loved it but my brother and I watched in horror as this conniving kid beat this lower class family into oblivion, with unnecessary brutality and spite.
This feels like it could've been actually interesting if the robbers were originally turned away by what's his face's traps and then came back with their own homemade devices since they can't afford to go buy anything more intense than that. Rather than beating up a kid on screen, maybe it could turn into a big game of mouse trap
the first home alone was funny because the robbers were real life cartoon characters, this one is just sad. it wasn't cartoony, it was just depressing to watch since this poor couple was being beat up grotesquely by a piece of crap kid
As someone who gets overwhelmed in social situations and family gatherings, i understand the kid hiding to just get some time by himself to breathe and watch cartoons. The rest of what he does is wild and definitely could be edited with different music to make it a horror movie, but that first thing was very real and relatable
Same. Like, I "run away" from family gatherings that are small in comparison to this one, so I definitely get the "I need time alone, I'm just gonna go in some random part of the house that's not occupied and do something mindless." The rest however, Jesus Christ, get that kid to a therapist to work on sadistic tendencies.
I could also relate to the kid getting overwhelmed and needing to go be alone for a bit while the house is packed and everyone else is having fun. It was probably the only relatable and sympathetic thing about the kid in the movie. Maybe they should've done more with that. And if the 'burglars' (who weren't even really burglars because they were trying to get something that was stolen from them) weren't gonna be true villains this time around, they could have instead focused on how Max's parents left him behind out of negligence and he wasn't in a great family situation (maybe some commentary on how the McAllisters always ended up abandoning Kevin in the original movies, but never seemed to truly learn from it), how he was a black sheep, and how he might have more in common with the family he's been tormenting than the one that left him behind, so in the end, child services get involved, and the poor couple adopts Max after winning a case against his parents that resolves their financial burdens. At least then there'd be something of a positive pay-off.
@@Kyran1996 i love when random TH-cam comments make a better movie idea than the actual movie and yeah, i've hid in the car multiple times during family gatherings, it's hard being easily overwhelmed by people (especially ones you can't stand lol)
Yea like THAT I get. But like mercilessly torturing a lower middle-class family for fun? nah. Not to mention he's MET them before right? I haven't watched the full movie yet but I definitely want to now but like it seems like he knew them. And he just like? Immediately goes to fucking torturing them rather than even a single question of what they're doing? like if he was scared then behind a closed door but this motherfucker was NOT scared.
@SillySanta look dude, I’m sorry that your wife left you, ok? I know it’s hard for you to deal with it but please don’t shit on the best TH-camr to cope.
I choked on a pistachio at like 8 min in and Danny paused for a second like he was waiting for me to finish and then continued after i stopped coughing 💀💀💀
Man took the time to take his nerf guns, add sharp ends to make them like daggers, somehow hooked it up to the house to make it fire automatically, and to top it all off they somehow managed to aim at her eyes
in the original home alone, harry and marv were originally going to have backstories as to why they started robbing houses. it was cut because you’re not supposed to sympathize with them as they’re literally the villains lol
This reminded me of my childhood friend who went to the same country club as Joe Pesci growing up. My friend was extremely terrified of him because he only knew him as the burglar from Home Alone. Joe Pesci was apparently very understanding and went out of his way to be nice and explain to my friend that he wasn’t actually the bad guy from the movie. When my friend told me the robber from home alone was actually a nice guy, i felt like my little eight year old brain exploded.
@@lexa2310 unfortunately in some forms of media fans take it way too far in disliking the actor attached to an unlikeable character. People really cannot separate the two and end up negatively targeting the actor. It’s a ridiculous sight to see.
I feel like part of the reason we don't mind seeing the burglars in Home Alone get messed up is that they would absolutely kill Kevin when given the chance. Like, they're set up as pretty evil people (to an almost absurd degree), and based on their reactions throughout the movie (especially at the end when they do catch Kevin), you get the sense that the kid's life is 100% in danger if his traps don't work.
But these poor parents trying to save their house? You cannot convince me they are any sort of threat, so the comical level of violence that gets thrown at them is just horrific instead of darkly funny karma. You also need cartoonish characters if you're going to be subjecting them to cartoonish levels of violence, and this movie completely fails in that regard.
this, one of them even pretty much implies they'd murd3r him and one fl00ds a victims house for no good reason, so it's like "f these guys"
@@ddjsoyenby Meanwhile the McKenzies (the antagonists) don't actually want to go through with it and don't want anyone to get hurt, so with the fact that they're are also struggling financially and do it only to support their kids, it's messed up.
Exactly, one of the burglars at the end just wants to cut Kevin's fingers and burn him and just he's an absolute piece of shit
But I can't in all honesty see this struggling family whose going to lose everything get beat up by this brat
But like, at the same time if the struggling couple just knocked on their door and told the mom she probably would’ve made the kid give the doll back. And if the kid was just home alone they could threaten to call the police, either scaring the obnoxious child into giving the doll back or just ruining his whole family’s trip bc it’s negligent to leave a child alone like that. There’s so many alternatives that the movie just seems fake either way.
@@rachelmichele7697 there's something called suspension fo disbelief. we can do that for them deciding to rob the place, but the breaker is the violence doesn't equal the crime or people doing the "crime".
also all you mention is the same for the first movie but people still love the first movie. know why? they were able to make it entertaining enough and hit the more important aspects so you would be able to suspend your disbelief. a lot of that movie was also unrealistic or unbelievable, but in a way, they still tried to reasonably explain certain things, and distract from others and the overall product was enjoyable. the main aspect of this movie is violence against bad people. but that is what's wrong so of course the whole movie just feels wrong.
The original Home Alone worked so well because the buildup was executed PERFECTLY. The robbers were shown as goofballs who share one braincell and have comically absurd reactions to walking into Kevin's traps, but they're also portrayed as sinister criminals who take pleasure in ransacking and trashing people's houses, which makes it SO satisfying to watch them get outwitted by a child. This movie completely fails in that because no one wants to see individuals who clearly don't have malicious intentions get beat up by a spoiled rich kid.
right? the criminals didn't cry and the violence was shown in a cartoonish way that is not realistic. Push pin gun? Ouch.
@@BrianaLynn7 yeah, because in the original home alone at least it was just an air gun
@@brain_wormm have you watched home alone 2? Kevin straight up whips bricks at the robbers heads from a roof top
@@gagne6928 Well they were trying to actually kill him, plus that guy is built like a bunker. What would normally kill a normal person he walked off like it was a headache. If someone was trying to kill me then I wouldn't hold back either.
having recently rewatched it, the movie is a classic because it gives a satisfying emotional arc to follow that leads into the goofy climax. kevin is a helpless idiot who sincerely thinks he is responsible for his family being gone, and tries to step up to take care of himself and his house in their stead. there are reasons given for why he can't call the cops right away, and it shows his family making every effort to get home to him. the burglars are inflicting suffering on themselves by refusing to leave this house, instead of being forced to stay by financial hardship. and in the end, kevin gets caught because he IS just a kid, and, his traps are more annoying than effective. he needs the help of the old man he bonded with, and his mom, and the rest of the family. this new movie feels like the execs and writers behind it haven't seen the original in years and were like "what was home alone about again? traps and stuff right?", and made this sadistic soulless nightmare.
I also think it's worse because in the original home alone, the burglars reactions were cartoonish so you never felt that bad for them but their reactions in this movie was just how a person would react irl. it's like if in the coyote and roadrunner cartoon, when the road runner squishes the coyote they show his funeral and his orphaned children sobbing, it's not fun when they make it even close to realistic
I want Roadrunner: Uncut
I absolutly hated this. It isn't comedy anymore when the people you're supposed to laugh at start getting a melt down
lol that comparison to coyote
I didn't watch this movie but just that part when the dad says "why is he doing this to us??" was extremely upsetting.
@@jellyjilli1004 yeah! It made me sad for that family in a movie I'm assuming is supposed to be against
kevin was a brat, but he seemed genuinely scared, and grew more mature and likable throughout the movie. max simply needs therapy.
You forgot another one thing max needs: a flipper to the face.
Max actually needs jail time because 😟
Plus Kevin was genuinely mistreated by his family before the start up of the plot
@@strangeactuallylegume ever since I was a child, I always rooted for Kevin’s side when it came to his family, because every argument was them being genuinely unfair to him as the second youngest.
@@terra_the_nightingale135 Exactly
Seeing the mom cry like that makes me think there is something seriously wrong with the writers
Nah man, it’s absolutely hilarious, because they don’t have health insurance /s
literally that part made me so sad i started crying too
@@IronHexacyanoferrate LMAOO
I was sad when I saw that part
I feel like the writers just didn't want to do this movie, so they made it awful on purpose as an f u to the studio.
The thing is, in the first Home Alone movie, Kevin didn't actually win on his own. The wet bandits actually caught him, and he would have been finished if the neighbor hadn't shone up to rescue him. At no point in this film does the couple turn the tables on Max. They just flail pathetically the whole time.
Fax
Also they get actually physically bruised in this but in the original they show no sign of damage as they go on so it seems disgusting as this kid pushes these 2 to the brink of death
And the old neighbor had a small side plot and characterization of his own. From that creepy dude down the street to actually kinda a gentle giant
@SMDF Yeah and in the second Home Alone he's not setting up the traps to defend himself. It's to defend charity money.
@@ProjectLethargic I think you need to watch the original again. Marv gets a blowtorch to his head and is bald with a burnt hat and Harry has a limp for the rest of the movie from a nail in the foot and that's just two things. The only real difference is that the damage is a little more cartoony looking in the original.
The fact that we like Kevin is because he was introduced as a lonely child who has been left alone for Christmas by his family. He was funny, likeable and had real reactions a child would of someone breaking into their house.
Yep, and even when he acted like a brat, it was still in a believable "this is an 8 year old" type of way. Max on the other hand straight up tries to steal from kids in need, and nothing in the movie ever humanized him enough to make up for that.
Not to mention his character development, we loved seeing that.
Kevin was not only lonely, but he was bullied pretty heavily by his other family members, even adults. It's really easy for kids and adults alike to sympathize with being unheard and disliked. This kid in the remake is so spoiled that he actively avoids his family as opposed to Kevin wanting to fit in but not. It deletes the kid's character arc which makes him into a brat and extremely flat as a character, which is why I think a lot of people are calling him scary. There is no motivation and no reason for the audience to sympathize or like him.
Plus had endearing moments like ordering the pizza but being too scared to use his kid voice or the running around aimlessly because you have so much to do and don't even know where to start becsuse you're an energetic little kid. Max is just a miserable, misanthropic 80 year old in the body of an annoying kid
True, and while some may argue that the moral lesson in the ending of Home Alone 2 felt quite off, it's still wholesome to see Kevin donating to the toy store and selflessly saying the kids in the hospital deserved it more since he'd just spend the money on candy. Not to mention, Kevin set all the traps in his uncle's vacant house all for the sake of preventing the wet bandits from robbing the toy store, which in a way shows that Kevin sees the toy store and the kids in the hospital as important as his own house and family.
the part where the mom lays down and sobs was just heartbreaking all they were trying to do was save their family without hurting anyone and this little prick came around and starting setting them on fire
This movie feels like watching a court recording of a homeless person stealing bread from a shop, and the whole audience is laughing at the fact that he’s going prison.
THAT WAS STOLEN FROM THE HOMELESS PERSON
After being beaten up by the shopowner.
Ah yes the classic, looting louis vuitton and nike stores because they need ''bread'' XD
@@eueu4854 and a a few first local cops on the scen got a few pops in the chops in as well
This analogy doesn’t make any sense
This movie was written so badly, I have more sympathy for the ‘villains’ than for the protagonist.
Just to drive home (no pun intended) how the people that make these movies still live in a bubble even after all the shit that happened in the last few years.
they should've stopped after home alone 2 everything after that has been garbage which is clear based off reviews and the box office numbers
HOLY HOLY!!! I can proudly say that I have the two HOTTEST women on this planet as MY GIRLFRIENDS! I am the unprettiest TH-camr ever, but they love me for what's inside! Thanks for listening twu
@@shifty7371 nah I’d say the (either third or fourth) with the toy cat and chip wasn’t bad, but generally yes they should of ended.
@@shifty7371 they should've stopped after the first one
I think it's also worth mentioning that in the first movie, the robbers are bringing it on themselves because they could totally leave at any time. Nothing is keeping them there, so the suffering they go through is totally their fault.
But if they establish that this family is going through financial troubles, and are about to lose their house, and they have good reason to believe that they're recovering their own stolen property that would let them keep their house; yeah no, they kinda can't just leave. It adds a greater weight of emotion to that scene where the lady breaks down in tears after being set on fire, it tells the audience that she feels trapped and has no other options; that those are tears brought on by months of stress culminating in maybe the worst night of her life. That isn't funny unless you're a psychopath.
Holy shit
@@fellowship9253 thank you for writing this, I agree with you. And before she cries and she's running with her shoes on fire there's goofy music in the background???
Like, how is this funny ?
How can anyone find this funny ?
This woman is having a breakdown because she feels trapped in an awful situation and has been for months ,it's getting worse because the doll that they could sell is missing and the shitty kid who they think stole it isn't cooperating with them.
Hi, id suffered a psychipathic personality disorder for years now, this shit isnt funny at all for me or for anyone. (Sorry for my English, not My Main languaje)
I really like Ellie Kemper's character in The Office and relate to her a lot, so seeing someone who I somewhat associate myself with break down like that really hurts me.
*sociopath, not psychopath.
The reason WHY we rooted for Kevin against the Wet Bandits was because the Wet Bandits were actually awful people. Harry and Marv were actual robbers and we even see them scoping out the houses to hit to make as much money as possible. Heck, in the second movie Harry was about to KILL Kevin, and they would of probably done the same to him if they caught him in the first movie! Can't have any witnessess ratting them off. We also rooted for Kevin because while he was a bit of a jerk at times, he's no where as bad as his family. And he also had moments where he could be sympathetic to others like the old man and the homeless woman, and that allowed us to fear for him when these dangerous people were about to enter his home.
We shouldn't be cheering for the robbers to kill a little kid and take everything he and his family owns. Honestly, the McKenzie's should of SUED Max's family for all the damage Max did to them!
yeah for real because max is just a stupid little rich kid
Ah yes, suing someone for injuring you when you break into their house.
@@TheDoctorShun Yes, to be fair, they were still commiting a crime, but they had no intention to harm Max, and they only broke into the house because they thought Max stole the doll (that was their property in the first place) that would of saved their home, and they had no options left. What Max did to them _could_ be clasified as self-defence in a court of law, but what he did to those two could of injured them for life or even kill them. And as far as the couple knew, Max was in the wrong for stealing, so I guess both sides are at fault.
They're rich, so if they'd sue them they're probably just gonna pay the government or smthng
@@TheDoctorShun that pool ball gun and the setting them on fire were clearly lethal traps that in a court of law would be classified as lethal weapons. You cannot use lethal force on a trespasser unless you truly feel your life is at stake, and in the movie, Max was clearly not in fear for his life, so yeah, it would actually be a pretty easy case if they had the camera footage. Also illegal to booby trap your house
The main issue is that they tried to make the burglars sympathetic so it’s not fun to watch them get attacked by the traps in the end
You almost want the kid to be on the receiving end
Yea
it only worked when the burglars were comically evil.
now they're making them seem like well-meaning but desperate people, and the kid is some sadist that loves to torture poor people.
Overly sympathetic villains has been the most annoying fad in recent stories. I’m not saying sympathetic villains are always bad, far from it, but it feels like every single villain recently has had some tragic background that attempts to justify heinous actions. Red Dead Redemption 2 was kidnof refreshing, having multiple greedy, selfish, evil villains.
@@elijazfrazelsassafraz3100 you want the kid to be on the receiving end*
This movie is actually about Hollywood finally admitting that they don't like poor people "Yes, we will torture this struggling family using cartoony sounds and slapstick comedy, and we are not going to apologize for it."
they saw the renegade cut video about home alone 1 and were like "hey let's make that classism more on the nose" lmfao
What ever we have
IKR LMAOAO adn they were only breaking into the house to try and get back the one thing that could keep their family from losing their home ???????????????
Ah yes, Hollywood directed this movie
@@WhaleManMan at this point, they all the same. just trash
this movie would work so well as an actual horror film that's just "this psycho child saw Home Alone and wanted to torture folks just like that" so he actually and intentionally stole the doll to lure them into his Saw traps
Take notes holly wood
He steals from people all the time in the hopes of getting to fulfill his twisted fantasies.
I can't remember the name of the movie but it exists. Dead meat did a video on it. If you can find it you'll get a shiny nickel
Oh boy, you would love “Better Watch Out”
@@kitkat12021 yes i was just about to recommend this movie! levi miller does a wonderful job
A thing I noticed is. Even when this is a year old. Kevin's traps were always barriers to prevent them from getting IN. The hot doorknob, and ice? To discourage them from entering. It was always keeping them away until they got way farther into the house
Max is just trying to torture them and kill them 😭
Exactly. The more extreme traps the Wet Bandits endure (like the paintcans, the tripwire and the toys at the stairway) when they actually get into the house were simply last resorts if they actually managed to get further into the home. Kevin's main priority when it came to the traps was to not let them in or drive them away from coming in (the ice, the doorknob, the ornaments and the flamethrower)
He even tried to deter them with his scene faking an entire family in the house. Like, hurting them wasn’t his original plan, he had to do his traps as a sort of last resort when they still plan to break in
Remember in home alone when Kevin said he didn’t want toys and just wanted his parents? Remember in the second one when his motivation was to stop the robbers from stealing charity money and saying “you can’t mess with kids on Christmas”
But nah, let’s have Max steal gifts for poor kids at a church. What a wonderful protagonist.
Sure, Kevin was a bratty kid but he developed and tried to help others in both movies.
i totally agree. most people forget that kevin believes that he has wished away his family and doesnt know that they just forgot him in home alone 1, so him wishing for his family back seems a lot more impactful and shows his development a lot better.
Kevin wasn't even a brat. Just the youngest of his family, and having a somewhat assholish older brother.
@@Battle_64 You’re right and you should say it. Any kid would be like that with family consisting of…all of them. Seriously, fuck Uncle Frank.
I barely saw the other home alones but the ones prior to the one covered in the video had the same concept of Home Alone 1, correct? Where'd they go wrong?
Edit: I went to Google to see the plots of Home 3 - 5, they are different but the kid is trying to do something good.
@@180fJC i only saw up to the 3rd one and to be honest I like it. The kid stays home alone because of chicken pox & his mom has to go to work but I forget why the robbers break into his house
This movie feels like movie executives saw the last 3 home alone flop and concluded that the problem wasn't that they were boring, rather that the villains didn't have a sad origin story.
I think the 3rd one is fine and a bit more creative. I still rewatch the first 2 films. I admit the other ones are so trash!!
@@littlesparrow303 the 3rd one was were it started to go downhill. But it wasn't awful.
Home Alone 5 actually has the burglars attempt to take back a painting that belonged to the leader’s grandmother. Nothing else, just the painting
The first time I'm agreeing with someone with a cagney carnation pfp, but I hope it won't be the last
The 3rd I think was pretty decent. I appreciated that it wasn't a kid being literally forgotten for days, it's just a kid doing kid things during school hours because he has chickenpox. The reason for his family's absence made perfect sense, as did how he came into possession of the chip and the robbers' reason to steal it from him. I also think them having 4 robbers instead of 2 opened up a lot of opportunities for them creatively. All in all, the 3rd wasn't bad and I'll die on the hill that it was good. First 2 need no introduction and the rest is abysmal at best.
I feel like the fact that more people have fallen onto hard times financially these past few years due to the pandemic and inflation and such makes this even more fucked up. The people who made this had to have known this and yet they did it anyway.
I was gonna say this, it feels so out of touch
This was my exact thought too!! Like who was the target audience ?? The kids who grew up watching the originals are now adults (most likely millenials) who are struggling along with everyone else they know because of the pandemic. I can’t think of one person who would enjoy it
mikey day, the head writer, grew up rich
You act like anyone that worked on this ever had hard times
this was released and was shown in a big box on the home of disney+ during the middle of the pandemic... I think its safe to assume at least
As for the nerf gun trap, the pain is severe. I once had a friend who shoved tiny pins into his nerf darts and shot me twice, and the fact that Pam was shot so many times was terrible
I literally gagged at that part from how horrifying it was
Fake friend
Wtf
@@katharineball585 to be fair it was more my idea, we wanted to see how bad it was and we were big idiots. I also stood still and was like “SHOOT ME”, so yeah
@@ducksmatter ohh ok
“am i supposed to be laughing right now? this is so sad!“ yeah honestly that’s how i felt this entire movie. it’s completely fucked
lol
It's a movie. Lol
@@elianazuniga6541 doesn't mean someone can't feel sad when watching a movie
@@cokeandcheese.6617 I get it but I don't know why people are acting like this movie is so much different than the original LOL. Kevin McAllister was also a rich kid. He was also a shit head. We just thought it was funny. And we don't have to go too deep into this but marv and harry.... Yeah they were thieves and they were jerks. But I mean wha
t does that come from? It comes from poor people needing. Unless it's organized crime theft is usually done out of necessity. I know this wasn't entirely the case for Marv and Harry but either way lol Kevin McAlister was a rich kid and they were poor criminals. He could have just called the cops. but then I guess that would mean the movie would only be 20 mins long. Lol. His traps were pretty gruesome as well. If we wanted to REALLY pick it a part like we are here. Most criminals come from underprivileged communities and have experienced some type of trauma or multiple trauma in their lives, statistically speaking. Definitely doesn't give Marv and Harry and excuse to be assholes and rob every rich person they come across. But I feel the dynamic is similar. Different in a lot of ways but overall kind of similar.
I know people aren't going to agree with this. And I agree that this version is a lot more uncomfortable because the couple aren't criminals and I think we can all relate to them. I guess all I'm saying is the dynamic is the same in the first movie. Either way. They're just movies. And to be honest I think the only reason why this is getting a bad reaction is because we're older now and we can pick apart these things and look a little deeper.
But honestly like my kids wouldn't know a difference. They would be excited with either one. They got the job done.
+ Eliana Zuniga
How was the first one and this movie exactly alike?
Well okay I get that the kids are both rich and alone, but Kevin wasn’t a bad kid.
He was just tired of always getting picked on and living in a house with a lot of people.
He also never stole anything and he was really nice to most people. In the first one he helped a man get over his fear of calling his daughter, and in the second one he made a new best friend (with a woman that scared him a bit at first) and gave her a Christmas gift. And Kevin DID call the cops. But they didn’t believe him because he was just a kid and they couldn’t find the criminals.
In this one the kid is spoiled, annoying, a lier, and just mean. Sure in the first one the criminals were poor but they were still bad. In this one they just wanted a doll. They didn’t want to cause any harm, they just wanted money to feed their kids.
And I _kinda_ agree with people not liking this just because they’re all grown up now and aren’t use to this, but even if this was the first one I watched, I would still hate it and wouldn’t be able to even finish it with how cringe it is.
(But that’s just my opinion)
the producers behind this really asked “hey, is anybody going to horrifically torture these struggling poor people?” and then didn’t wait for an answer
"So are we gonna make the poor people suffer?" Waits a second " guess I'll do it myself"
@@Mjay300 same
Wilbur?
This is the funniest comment on this video I’m sorry-
This comment doesn’t imply the joke you think it does and doesn’t make sense in and of itself
The dumb thing is that their parents forgot their only child. In the original the parents had a shit ton on children to keep track of, so their attention was divided amongst many children and its conceivable how one could slip your mind. But even with a ton of relatives over, if you have 1 child you are not going to forget that one child. I feel like this is stating the obvious but... this movie exists.
These parents left him on purpose
@@matthewbartlett3442 Can't blame them considering what a psychopath that little shit is.
@@matthewbartlett3442 honestly....
Dont blame em Max is genuinely a physco
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@@VelvetWxtchpsycho*
im glad it was ultimately a happy ending for the family but this movie genuinely pissed me off. The scene of the mom crying almost made ME cry- this poor mom is just trying to feed her kids and keep her house and she's going through all of this shit for them, she probably felt so hopeless
The original Home Alone was good because even though they had a bunch of “scary” traps, the robbers, who were comical antagonists we were all rooting against, had equally comical, unrealistic reactions. They would just scream or something. I forwarded my way through this movie because their reactions felt so much realer and I felt really bad for them.
The other thing is "the wet bandits" could have left at any time. They could have given up and fled. Their suffering was entirely motivated by a selfish greed that caused them to continue to pursue, eventually with the goal of hurting Kevin.
Here? If they don't literally walk through this deathtrap they lose everything. It's a literal home alone Squid Game.
That’s exactly it. The director/actors knew how to turn scary situations into comedic gold by overplaying the reactions, sound effects and camera angles. Like bringing a looney tunes short to life. This movie just has wide angles and muted sound effects, which leave little to the imagination. It doesn’t look cartoonish, it looks genuinely painful, and in context that’s a bad thing. When Saw came out, people joked that it was Home Alone played straight. Almost twenty years later, Home Alone is Saw played for laughs. Realistic isn’t always better.
Also Joe Pesci and Hugh Laurie
And they are, technically immortal
yeah the part where she was just crying in the snow hit me hard, she’s just trying to support her family and this rich spoiled brat is torturing her for something that she didn’t even want to do
When the husband was like "why is he doing this to us", despite being comedic I still felt super bad for them. They dont deserve it in the slightest.
@aliss liou because they arent trying to hurt a child. They keep trying to tell the kid they mean no harm and he keeps hurting them.
@@magnumbeefus it was probably because he overheard them and thought they were trying to kidnap and sell him. he probably assumed that they were lying when they said they dont mean harm.
@@jeremywaygay he overheard very specific parts and decided to inflict torture upon them instead of calling the police.
@@magnumbeefus he saw them talking to the police men, and thought his mom would go in jail for leaving him home alone
the misunderstandings are dumb af
@@morgan0__o forgot about that at time of writing. Honestly though that's the only reasonable thing imo. A stupud kid thinking that his mom would go to jail for child neglect is pretty reasonable for someone that age. I think what i was getting at is the fact that he was so desperate he would literally rather hospitalize these innocent people than call the cops. What kinda insane bullshitery is that? Kid definitely kills hamsters on his spare time lmao.
The worst part is, they weren't even trying to steal from the kid. They were just trying to take back what they thought was stolen from them.
I really really like that pfp
@@GregLemons I like it too
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@@meatloath I really really really really like that pfp
I really really really really really really want that pfp
I physically felt pain in the traps scene, like I can feel one of my organs shrivel up everytime I see a grotesque trap.
The keypad pin one actually made my finger hurt
Honestly the nerf and keypad one made my stomach srivel up
I was rooting for the “villains” the entire movie. They’re genuinely good people who have been pushed too far.
Honesty l agree.
with what this kid has done
not pushed far enough
My brain wasn't functioning for a second and I read this while a Harry Potter ad was playing before the video so I was sitting here trying to figure out how Voldemort was a "genuinely good person". Lmfao
@@lindsey3038 lmao
They aren’t villains
In the original, Kevin is a bit of a brat, but you understand where he's coming from because his family was usually mean to him. In this version, Kevin is a complete brat to his family, and you end up hating him more than the antagonists. Did Harry and Marv write this movie?
I love the idea of this movie being propaganda made by the -Wet- Sticky Bandits.
It seems like they did write it... 🧐 Coincidence? I think not!
ikr.
Right? He was one of six children and his older brother was a dick. So was his uncle. So he was sometimes bratty. Like him wishing they'd all disappear or shoving Buzz and knocking over glasses of milk made a ton of since.
@Avocado Yeah but I’m still calling him Kevin, making a Home Alone movie and not naming the MC “Kevin” is a complete sin
These writers really saw all the people losing their homes these past couple of years and went "you know what would make this even more hilarious?"
The movie was written before the pandemic, it was also shot a few months before the pandemic but also during the pandemic by the end of 2020. Why do I know that? Well it's because I worked on it lol
@@shawnfournier19 bro what was it like
@@elliot2758 I only worked there during the pandemic, wasn’t really allowed on set and the protocols were strict, saw the actors and Archie Yates aka Max and his family were really nice, nicer than the character lol
@@shawnfournier19 people still lost their homes due to financial struggles before the pandemic, so my point still stands.
@@shawnfournier19 Did any of you think that maybe this movie goes a little too far with how the premise is "rich kid tortures poor people"? Sorry for being rude, this was just depressing to watch
God, can you imagine the board room meeting for this movie?
“Now, listen. We all know that the last… two… three Home Alone movies were huge flops. But I’ve got an idea that’ll knock your socks off: what if, the movie is about a struggling middle-class family being tortured by a rich British child?”
“Yeah, sure.”
“Why not?”
“What could go wrong?”
that ain't middle class..........
@@TheoSur damn i kinda don’t care
@@ratgobblerwhy are you being snarky about it? If you didn't care, you wouldn't have taken the time to specify what class the characters had. Everyone makes mistakes. Chill
@@msjkramey k
@@TheoSurI’d say they are low-middle class, which is still middle class.
As someone with younger siblings, I can confidently say this movie isn't even appealing to CHILDREN. My brother and sister were complaining the entire time about how boring and cardboard it was, and how annoying Max was. Even other eleven year olds don't like this spoiled rich kid.
Even though the Mcalisters were obviously rich, they at least made Kevin relatable. He was the scrappy underdog who was being unfairly treated by his family and he tried to do the right thing to protect his home and get his family back while also facing his fears. I also think the casting of Joe Pessci as one of the main villains also worked to their benefit due to his history of playing the bad guy in adult movies.
Yes when i was babysitting kids(this movie was on) none of them were even watching it, even their 4 year old seemed bored.
ikr, my brother is ten and watched it with his other ten-year-old friends (all of them act like theyre eight too tbh) and they hated it; my brother just came home complaining about how bad it was
Part of what made the original one feel better, even though there were some graphic moments, was the fact that the Wet Bandits were actually out to steal from Kevin's house. They were designed to be unpleasant, legitimate thieves, so that we would root for Kevin, and laugh at their pain. They were definitely going to hurt Kevin if they got the chance, and they probably would've in the first movie, if it wasn't for the neighbor showing up. Not to mention, a lot of their reactions were overly comical, not realistic at all.
This one just feels horrible, because the parents weren't trying to harm anyone or steal, they were just a poor family who were trying to get back something they thought Max had stolen. The realistic reactions to getting hurt, coupled with their already troubled lives, and the fact that they showed the mother CRYING...
I can't watch this one. It hurts to watch.
Also, when they finally get kevin, they would actually have killed him without the old man showing up
@@br_uh8604 And in the second movie they tried to kill him again (in the park) but luckily the gun was clogged with a sticky substance and the Pigeon Lady helped Kevin escape
i know right
Exactly. Like, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia has a lot of awful things happen to its protagonists, but it's funny because they're terrible people who deserve the worst life has to offer. Painful slapstick inflicted upon characters we care about and want to win isn't funny, it's upsetting. Give us a reason to laugh at their pain, not sympathize with their plight.
When you remake the same movie 6 TIMES, its not the same. I only watched the first one and this looks like someone tried to copy it but failed miserably. Its not even the same kid anymore. What were they even thinking?
This movie proves that horror and comedy closely linked genres. It just depends on the context and which side we are on.
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Facts
Comedy human centipede version?
@@TheSharkBlankie u ruined it
@@brycechryson5686 lol yea
I watched this movie almost exactly one year ago today(literally tomorrow is one year) and after I watched this movie and I got sick for 3 straight weeks. I got a Covid and flu test and I was negative for both. Almost a year later this video pops up in my recommended. I watch the first 10 seconds of this video and I see that you also got sick after watching it. So now I think that have to call this movie a disease.
Do you by any chance remember the name of this movie?
@@jaszychvz9229home sweet home alone (not so sweet isn't it)
I got the worst case of Covid around the time it came out so does that count?
The worst part of the crying in the show scene is how accurate the crying is. You can hear the slight stutter as they try to cry even though they aren’t breathing enough to, she also kinda chokes for a second on their spit because they’re laying down, which I can say is very accurate. Why did they have to do this.
It might just be real, she must have realized that the movie is going to be shit.
I went to the comments during the ad before the video so by time the video started I was already expecting some things, and seeing the crying it’s like holy shite you’re right that’s so sad
Props to the actress though for how well she was able to replicate crying, I can fake cry pretty decently but that was too fricking good
Another reason why Ellie Kemper is too good to be a main role in this movie
Also, she plays such sweet characters, Erin from The Office, Kimmy Schmidt, it's hard to watch a little kid beat the shit out of her, not like Joe Pesci lol
@@blokvader8283 Fr it’s sad
"This is gonna be even funnier cuz they probably don't have health insurance"
You pretty much nailed it, Danny, that's exactly what the writers were thinking
stop being everywhere dude :|
HOW ARE YOU IN EVERY COMMENT SECTION
Ugh... Not you again
@@Kristinakiku well if u see him everywhere doesn't that mean you're everywhere?
@@Nankaina. well if u see him everywhere doesn't that mean you're everywhere?
The writers were like, “You know what would REALLY be a cool remake? Having the kid set up Saw traps on innocent, struggling people. That’ll do numbers baby.”
i can just imagine max's video playing while the parents are locked in a room with torture devices on their heads watching in terror
Innocent struggling people? They jumped to conclusions and got what they deserved.
@@MrMac6375 ...no, they didn't. a little brat stole something insanely expensive from them and they were trying to get it back so that they could feed their family. the torture max put them through was pretty much completely undeserved... don't know what your thinking process is.
Shouldn’t have broken in
@@enderkitty082 in the movie max didn’t even take it the Aunts nephew or son took it
The fact that the robbers weren’t actually evil hurt so much
There's a major plothole that was never addressed, and it's kind of necessary for any home alone movie to work. It's a reason for the police to be absent. In Home Alone, the power lines broke the night before the Mcalisters left, and the telephone cables were broken until the story was almost over. This is important to have so the kid doesnt come off as either stupid or demented for making traps to torture a couple of burglars rather than alert the cops. Knowing Max, hes probably so deranged, he probably wouldn't call the police if given the chance.
Max actually says in the movie that he doesn't want to call the cops because his parents would be arrested for leaving him, doesn't he?
If i remember correctly there is a scene in hone alone where the police check the house if anyone is home but kevin is too scared to open the door or something like that
I think that's why 1) they specify that they don't have a landline, and 2) his internet access is cut off. Since he's a kid, he doesn't have a cell phone, and he can't contact anyone from the computer either.
Nit to mention, in the original, the cops didn't help they showed up and didn't do anything. The burglars originally disguised themselves as cops too, furthering his distrust in them. He stole a toothbrush in panic mode and he's 7 he's probably afraid of the consequences too. Even with working phones, he didn't have a reason to trust the police.
If this movie was really going for realism (which seems to be the case with the struggling family and their realistic reactions to all the torment they endure), Max would have called the cops and they simply wouldn't have taken him seriously. Maybe they'd tell him to call back when he's in actual danger or something. This is something real police have said to reports of domestic violence and stalking reports on numerous occasions, so yeah. Would definitely sour the mood of a family comedy and all, but having a rich kid put a poor couple through Saw-level torture traps already achieves that.
I swear that the script of this movie was made by someone that was home alone, for authenticity.
Oh my god yes
This movie is shite for authenticity reasons.
Authentic feel lol
For the public's safety
Legendary comment and insult
“Haha, watching a rich kid beat up poor people is super funny, right?”
-the people behind this movie.
Logan Paul viewers:
Thats one way to put it
They're probably rich, probs why they lack empathy and self-awareness.
Maybe bc the rich people made it?
@@Your_mum_100 Then wouldnt expensive writers mean expensive GOOD writing? Or just that much of a cheapskate
My griefs with this are as follows (forgive me for beating a dead horse at this point):
The Mackenzies are good people who are trying to provide for their two children and take back what’s theirs, even though Max didn’t have the doll. That’s what the intent was, to make things even and help their own family.
HOLY SHIT THE SPECIAL EFFECTS AND TRAPS. They physically hurt to even think of, as soon as Danny mentioned the nerf gun with push pins I had to pause the video to freak out. It was so disgusting to even picture, especially with the special effects.
In the first Home Alone, we don’t see the Wet Bandits’ true reactions AFTER the traps. Even in the moment, their responses are comical because they aren’t realistic. Harry, when he burns his head, holds it for an unrealistic amount of time and sticks his head in the snow. That, especially for kids, is funny because clearly nobody would just stand under a flame thrower for 10 seconds and throw their head into a pile of snow. In this new movie we see them CRY and have REALISTIC reactions, and it feels too real, especially when these people taking the hits don’t deserve them. Harry and Marv were cartoon supervillain level evil, they deserved what was coming to them… mostly. I still can’t watch the part with the nail tbh (or the bricks in the second movie).
The rich parents had one child in this movie. Max. In the original(s) Kevin is the youngest of a giant family who is isolated for bad behavior, and when the rest of the family gets frazzled, they forget to bring him back from his punishment because they’re too busy focusing on the fact that they’re late. In this one, the parents… forget their one son.
Finally, it’s Ellie Kemper. Ellie Kemper! I could never root against her, even if her character was unspeakably evil.
*TL;DR:* I don’t like this movie because the robbers aren’t mean, the SE and reactions feel too real, the traps are sadistic, the parents had no realistic reason to forget Max, and Ellie Kemper is too sweet to be rooted against.
heavy on the ellie kemper one, you can't watch her as kimmy schmidt and then want her to not succesfully rob a house
This is a kid friendly version of Saw. Some crazy maniac convinced he's in the moral right puts people through terrible traps just because their life isn't perfect.
Their*
A mix between Saw and Squid Game for torturing poor people
That probably adds to that theory of Kevin being Jigsaw when he grows up.
Maybe they’ll do a connected universe type thing where this kid turns out to be jigsaw, lmao
@@BurnTheTeddy at this point i feel like that’s actually the purpose of the movie. there’s no way this is just some fun family movie, and there’s definitely some social commentary. i refuse to believe that they would depict burglars as struggling parents who desperately need money competing with a rich kid who is automatically ready to defend himself and constantly has a better position if it was a funny family movie. i feel crazy for saying that, but it genuinely seems super strange that they would script it the way they did if they weren’t trying to say something
My friends younger sister legit CRIED when watching the movie. She didn't like the idea of some poor people getting tortured. Quote on quote "They didn't do anything! He stole from them!"
atleast that shows you that shes a good or atleast decent person cause had she enjoyed seeing them get into traps and stuff would just feel wrong atleast to me
I feel like that would be how most well adjusted kids would react. Who tf is this movie for? Because it's definitely not for kids!
The movie is awful, and the family obviously didnt deserve that, but "they didnt do anything"? Really? You cant just break into someone's house because you merely suspect that they stole something from you. The kid is even worse than them, but to say they did nothing wrong is kind of ridiculous.
@@perperperpen funny coz cops definitely can. Sure they're not cops, but cops are just civilians. They're not soldiers. If they can do it why can't we?
@@christopherreichle6670 that is the most ridiculous argument. A cop is a civilian that is paid to fight crime. They arent "just" civilians. Its their job and they are trained to do it. "Why cant we?" Because you arent trained to be a police officer lmfao. If a police officer is "just a civilian" then why dont you "just" get a job as a police officer and then you'll be allowed to enter people's homes, which is a weird desire in the first place.
Secondly, the police wouldnt even be allowed to enter their home in this case. They would need a warrant, which i doubt they could get because the only evidence against the kid is that the doll happened to go missing after he left.
People give Kevin a lot of flak for his traps, but I think Max is actual psycho here. He endlessly (and needlesly) tortures poor people, exploits charity for his own amusment and laughs all the way. He's pratically creating his own Squid Game here
Frfr, and Kevin actually had to defend himself, he had a better reason for those traps that he set up.
more like saw
What does "flak" mean?
@@geewillikers6159 It kinda means complaints or backlash
@@valenciarodriguez2043 oh, ok. Thank you
What if those nerf dark - push pin combo bullets got into her eyes. That’s called horror movie stuff, especially if they included realistic gore.
Nice pfp
They showed her desperately trying to shield her eyes and protect herself from a *POV*...
That's just... You don't do horror POV if you don't want people to sympathise deeply!
The first home alone were funny, the burglars were stupid, they would indeed do horrible things if they could, and it was just funny to see them getting smacked in the head with a bowling ball or something. But this movie is just demented and scary
Another reason it was funny is because it had cartoon physics, this new one is realistic for some reason.
Even in the second one, one of them keeps cat-calling this chick, to show that they are pure and utter garbage
fr, like those traps are low key horrifying but not in a comedic way, and I had genuine sympathy for the parents being subjected to all the traps because like...wtf.
This movie is for sociopaths
Home alone 2 was funny too, don’t forget that
One of the reasons I hate Max is because of the fact that he basically tortures the parents who is rich and spoilt whilst Kevin was just an ordinary kid in a large house with lots of family around him for his entire life, being mentally abused and told he is worthless, which eventually leads to him being quite psychotic but in the end he realises that actually he does appreciate his family. On the other hand Max is not in any danger (The Wet Bandits had the intentions of killing Kevin) and is more the antagonist than the protagonist. In the end Max is just a sick,spoiled brat who has been raised wrongly sp he doesn’t really care for anyone but himself whereas Kevin was just hurt and scared and abused, finally getting to let his anger out on someone.
*and is rich and spoilt
Kevin being so good at taking care of himself (we dont really see that with Max) implies that Kevin often has to do that for himself already because no kid is just suddenly good at that stuff. And not only does Kevin appreciate his family more, his family respects him a lot more. They realize he's more mature than they thought.
true mane
i was the 666th like UWU
How was he supossed to know they were not going to hurt him?
When he cries, "Why is he doing this to us, Pam?" Like I legit felt bad. I wasn't amused, felt nostalgic, I just felt sad.
Same
Im boutta cry fuck the writers
12:14 He acts like Jigsaw from "Saw".
"Well hello, no-income struggling parents of a family. You're desperate with moral reservations about robbing my house...
You know who doesn't have reservations?
My house."
Do you know who else doesn’t have reservations?
@@Kewlguysdo MY MOM
@@heartmates01 👍🏻
at least saw only really did it to criminals and murderers and etc
but these ''antagonists'' are just struggling middle class parents trying to get something max stole from them
This movie doesn’t even feel like a funny Home Alone Movie, it feels like just the writers made a movie for rich people to laugh at how much the working class is struggling to be finically stable. It’s just some unenjoyable horror fest that makes fun of families who are struggling to put food on the table. Not to mention they do it in a very comedic fashion to try and paint it as a funny thing.
Exactly my thoughts, it seems so cruel
thank you this is exactly what I was thinking
Honestly. Which is such a dumb decision, considering that (especially with the pandemic) the vast majority of the audience will emphasise much better with the “villains” than with Max. Like, even if they’re not poor themselves, it’s just easier to emphasise/sympathise with them
I agree, this definitely feels made for rich people.
agreed it's not fun to watch people who are just trying to provide for their family and you feel bad for suffer.
That Nerf trap was pretty bad, but the most grotesque trap in Home Alone history is from the first Home Alone. Kevin elaborately puts tar on all the stairs in the basement, so one of the bandits is forced to take off his shoes and socks. Then, once he is barefoot, Kevin has a 4 inch nail pointing straight up to puncture his foot. How does a little kid even come up with that concept? There's so many steps to it
If I’m not mistaken, there is a point in home alone 2 where Kevin sets a trap which shoots one of the robbers with a nail gun multiple times.
If it werent so cartoony..home alone are seriously terrifying
It’s so sinister
Don’t forget the ones in the second movie which would have realistically killed someone like…immediately. Kevin drops bricks on Marv’s head from a two/three story building multiple times, Marv gets electrocuted, a shelf falls on Marv and Harry’s head gets set on fire, they both get hit in the chest by a heavy ass weight that throws them so far back they fall down through the floor AGAIN.
They probably had…so many broken bones. And probably inner bleeding.
@@circusclown1503 In Kevin's defense, they were literally trying to kill him so his traps getting deadlier make sense. But yeah a lot of traps from this movie are just lifted from the originals.
Given the IMDb synopsis for this movie is “A married couple tries to steal back a family heirloom from a troublesome child” makes me believe that yes we ARE supposed to root for the “robbers”. And Danny, don’t feel to bad for Mikey Day because he and Streeter Seidell are two SNL writers who wrote this abomination.
Oh
streeter would
Yes if they are the good guys is explains a lot. Like why the kid is so bad and tries to take toys from poorer kids. But the. Shouldn’t he have some thing happen? I haven:t finished the video yet
Why would they make all that bad stuff happen to them then?? Who would want that??
Streeter Seidell?? As in Streeter Piefell?? (Jake and Amir fans know whats up) I’m so disappointed that he could write a movie like this and NOT see how weird it is. The genuine plight of the “burglars” and the completely unsympathetic cocky rich kid make the film feel so morally morbid! Totally bizarre!
"I liked the kid more when he played a nazi youth" is not something i thought i would ever say in my lifetime
You know it’s bad when you like an actor more as a literal Nazi.
To quote thee Kevin Mcalister: "You don't steal from kids on Christmas." (Literally the entire plot of the second movie.
And that's exactly what Max was doing....Disgusting...
McAlister Thee Kevin
Max ain’t a Home Alone protagonist. He’s an antagonist. I don’t care what they people who made it try to say. :/
@@lefandomtrash7746 so true Pidge
holy shit that scene where he steals from church is like,,, genuinely disturbing lol like ik kids don't always have a good understanding of what other people are going thru but the fact that he's THAT RICH and felt totally fine stealing toys from poor children.... like damn
he is the definition of a villian. at no point was I rooting for him.
This describes about 80% of the rich kids I grew up with in my hometown
Mmmm
You snowflakes and your emotions, goddamn is just a movie
@@jakecompton9699 it's amazing how I experienced none of the rich kids of my university like you did its almost like people exagertting things
i feel bad for this kid who’s gonna have this dark spot of a film on his resume forever….too bad his parents didn’t say anything about how damning the plot/script is
Its okay let us not make a big deal out of it and support good movies. Let us move on together
@@roeimagz8202 in reality she’s right, it will forever be there
@@roeimagz8202 what do u mean “move on together” who’s being dramatic again?
it’s so unfortunate because this kid already had jojo rabbit and then moving on to a project like this
@@lamb2004 the main kid or….
As a 42 year old with 3 kiddos I’m glad I watch these vids on occasion. No way in hell I’d let my children watch this movie (except when they’re old enough to watch a double feature of this and Die Hard). Probably wouldn’t have thought about it otherwise.
Die Hard is less mean-spirited and kid friendly I would say, even down to maybe a 12-year-old could enjoy. Because the morals aren’t upside down and warped like this trash.
This movie would be actually harder for me to watch than any horror movie out there. I know people say that a lot for certain non-horror movies but I really mean this. I would have actually lost my mind if I watched this. It's straight up demented and sadistic. This video was enough to make me mad, let alone seeing the actual movie.
i agree. i think the supposed naiveness of the whole thing. an horror movie KNOWS what it is about, but this is just pretending to be some innocent comedy for kids.
Yeah. I'm enraged just watching these clips. How was this idea made into a movie?! People are struggling now more than ever due to the pandemic and I'm supposed laugh watching poor ppl getting absolutely demolished by some snobby brat?!?? No thank you!!
Genuinely squeaked at some of these traps loud enough for my mom to get woken up
Well I'm glad you didn't see it then. But I agree also. The kid was just way too hard to root for
same! honestly couldn’t watch it. i almost cried in up when he hit the construction worker, could not watch a movie that’s the 2-hour equivalent of that except the main character is a TOTAL dick with no justification for his actions
What really makes the first two Home Alone movies so good is that the audience roots for Kevin. Kevin is a good kid who risked his life to defend charity money.
Max tried to steal from charity.
I didn't grow up watching Home Alone, and I'd never really felt like it once I was an adult. Watching an entire movie about a kid setting up elaborate traps didn't sound all that interesting to me. But I finally watched the film this year, and you know what? It ended up being a lot better than I expected it to be.
I think the mistake that Home Alone rip-offs (and bad sequels) make is focusing all on making painful, unrealistic traps, when really that was only a small part of the original movie. There was a lot of heart in there too, watching Kevin have to take care of himself and learn to appreciate the people he had. I think the smaller character interactions, like he had with his neighbor, other random adults, and his mom's struggle to get back to him, add a lot to the story, and you can feel that human element missing when other movies take them away.
When he finally does set up all the traps in the original, it's like the culmination of his arc, now that Kevin both is more capable and cares about his family home and protecting it (I also think the traps were more grounded than I think I expected, which I think made it more fun to watch). It makes the goofy slapstick climax have some meaning behind it, and I think that's what the newer ones are probably missing.
And of course, as plenty of people pointed out, it's a lot easier to get behind watching a kid beat up dangerous cartoon bad guys than a struggling family who wants to save their home. Kinda hard to root for that.
The majority of Home Alone is spent getting the audience to like Kevin and hate the Wet Bandits, in preparation for the robbery scene, which as you said is a small part of the movie. Based on this video, the new one does exactly the opposite for some reason
if you haven’t seen home alone 2 i’d highly recommend it, better than the first i my opinion. always makes me tear up, it’s incredibly sweet and fun
Good take
this is right on the nose i agree 100%, and also the original was just simpler and to the point in the best possible way
@@cakeheart. except for tr*mp’s cameo 🙄🙄🤮🤮
Honestly I genuinely wonder if they set out to make "Home Alone but a horror movie" and executives made them change it into a family friendly thing. Like, the set-up is perfect for it.
-The dynamic is rich vs poor, a thematic idea teeming with sociopathic tendencies and unrelatability.
-They establish the child as being actively antisocial and so disconnected that he tries to steal from church donations
-The parents have ferociously sympathetic reactions that seems to have little comedic intent in any context. I mean, who writes "extreme close-up on a character as they begin to sob" as a joke in a family comedy?
-Violent traps actively inspired by the child watching cartoon violence
Genuinely it seems so odd that I really think I could be right
Now that you mention it, yeah. This could VERY easily have been a horror movie, I think your theory is very plausible
I want it to be a horror movie
@@Funni-Archive I highly suggest 'Better Watch Out' then. It's pretty much Home Alone as a horror movie.
@@Moskeeto Thanks
@@Moskeeto Saw is technically home alone if it was more graphic
The funny thing is, is that there's a big plot hole in the movie when its revealed that the nephew stole the doll, the doll went missing way before the robbers relatives came to visit them. You'd think that would be a hard thing to overlook when writing out the story 🤷🏾♀️
EXACTLY that was so weird
I wonder if the nephew was supposed to show up earlier and they changed it to introduce the main kid earlier.
The kid broke into their house.
Now I want a home alone movie where 2 adults need to protect their house from a spoiled 10 year old.
@@MuffledSword Maybe the nephew bit was just a redcon so that they didnt have to make the child-protagonist into an actual villain, instead of an implied one.
The most accurate statement about his movie I’ve seen so far is that the actor playing Max was more likable as a literal Hitler Youth
Lmao he was so adorable in jojo rabbit I forgot he was a nazi in training
THATS WHERE I KNOW HIM FROM
Yorki is better than max
Lol the kid sucks but I think part of the issue with this movie is they didn’t lean hard enough into the kid being awful angle. Make the kid like cartman with even more homicidal tendencies and could’ve been better to watch
Yeah but it was kinda the writers fault because they failed to make a good character
For some reason I kinda like that the big celebrities are insignificant roles. There's no movies with just anyone these days, and seeing all of the same people just feels like its for money (it is) and gets boring
Kinda like trump in the second movie.
Will Smith IS HOME ALONE
though that's a nice thought, big actors also portrayed the main roles: Aisling Bea - who is a huge comedian in Ireland, that one Rob dude who is always on twitter, and the girl from the office and the unbreakable kimmy schmidt (i decided i wasn't going to do a quick google search to remind myself of the names)
I feel so bad for the kid actor. He did so amazing in Jojo Rabbit, he was actually able to make the viewer feel sympathetic with him but he was also really funny. This script just did him dirty.
Thats where i recognised him from
@@viktorvaughn8007 yeah hes jorky in jojo rabbit with the Hitler and the hitler
In my mind he was supposed to be the villain, so did a great job 😂❤
My friend actually used to know this kid and apparently he's an arse irl so maybe this is just the real him showing thru😭😭
@@sarahtriboix-kamga416 proof?
The writer’s made the antagonists of the story seem so normal and so sad that it actually feels like it’s intentional, and that the kid is the actual antagonist, and it’s some social commentary about how the rich beat down the poor.
Almost
I think that angle could have worked of they had made the kid suck more, but they tried to make him sympathetic like in the first movie, which doesn't work when the villains are just normal people
holy shit it's Obama!
u know what, this movies premis would make a banger horror movie - just saying
@@piiiwo TRUE OMG
you know it's fucked up when you can't bring yourself to feel any empathy for the protagonist, even if it's an actual child.
A really unlikeable child tbf
@@potatolegion619 a hateable one
@@potatolegion619 I kinda understood when he just wanted a quite place but that was the only time I liked him even a modicum.
12:20 I always get in a box under a box every time I hide. I’ve never lost a game of hide and seek.
wow impressive!!!!!
Actual dialogue in the movie:
"No McDonald's for you then!"
"Mum, you can't promise me McDonald's and not deliver!"
The product placement is so subtle
First world problems
@@HerrDeutschBlood You're completely right, and I'm mildly upset about it. Don't ask why, I don't know.
@Adriano Correct
and it was the little british kid too!
The first home alone he was genuinely scared for his life only setting up the traps as he was being followed to his next hiding spot. This one is just sociopathic omg, the British accent makes it even worse
Speaking of, why they couldn’t train the child actor and Aisling Bea (the Irish chick who played the child’s mom) in speaking in an American accent?
@@soccerruben1 My question is, why get an actor with a British accent at all? The Home Alone movies were always set with an American family, so seeing one with British accents kinda just feels weird.
the british scare me
Your being way too nice to these sickos. My parents took me and my little brother to watch this, and my brother starting crying because of how grotesque and horrid this awful movie is.
They need to have a warning about those needles. I hate them so much
When I saw it with my family, my mom had to cover my youngest sister’s eyes when the needles came up and some other gross stuff
I remember watching a video and reading up on how superhero cartoons from the '90s tended to avoid stuff that kids could easily replicate in real-life, so Spider-Man: The Animated Series would always avoid showing Spider-Man actually punch somebody or people firing real guns (which could potentially be found around the house) instead of laser cannons or whatever, but he could subdue an enemy by causing a brick wall to collapse on them instead. But the Home Alone movies (especially this one) depict so much violence that could easily be replicated by a child in real-life, but with less cartoony, more dire consequences (such as lighting someone on fire or dropping a brick on their head).
@@Kyran1996 The whole point of home alone 1-3 (yeah 3 wasnt that bad guys) was that while the wet bandits, sticky bandets and russian spies attacks looked painful, they were also comical (except for the ornament, needle gun to the scrotum scenes and brick throwing ) like a scene from a looney tunes episode brought to life
Edit: some touch ups on spelling and mentioning the russian spies
Edit 2: adding the brick thrown scene stuff credits to sloppy phart
@@LocseryuOfficial the brick attack from Home Alone 2 wasn't comical at all. I love it now, but when I was a kid it really disturbed me because I thought it was real.
12:52 did you forget that in the original one Marv stepped on a massive nail and it went all the way through his foot
Even if he'd been wearing his shoes that still would have been a brutal trap
@@keanuh8203It didn't go all the way in, Marv was able to pull it out, so conpared to the lunatic character in this one it's not as bad😅
Me and my grandmother even watched the film, half way through she straight up said “this is stupid” and we turned it off. I can’t believe how badly written the Home Alone series has become
your grandma just speakin straight facts
It's not a series it's two movies and a few cash grabs
Really tho. They should have stopped At the Second movie
This honestly makes me sick, my aunt was in a similar situation and was really stressed. To just see the writers subject the couple to amounts of horrific pain, as well as bring legos and nerf guns and bad humor into the mix isn’t funny, it’s disgusting. Also the kid Max reminds me of that one kid in elementary school flexing his fort nite skins or whatever and they tried to make him sympathetic. They failed miserably.
The thing is that I think the movie writers are just a bunch of rich arseholes who dont have the ability to sympathise with those who have financial issues. Of course the chosen ones think the common man suffering is funny. Thats their brand of humor. We dont laugh at it because most people have a heart.
Watching these clips honestly feels like they are the result of an interpretation of the originals by someone who hated them.
Your aunt had to rob a house with a small child in it, that's pretty cool tho
@@lexa2310 Watching this movie feels like torture.
Uh if you don't want to be poor then be born to parents with significant wealth.
/s obviously
I already had enough hatred for the kid. But the church scene.. him being that wealthy and saying he’s a kid in need and stealing toys from kids that have nothing.
In times especially like now after the pandemic with so many losing homes/jobs.. it rings so true for many people struggling.
I really wanna know wtf the writers were thinking
Yeah don’t know how anyone would be on the kids side, I don’t know what the writers where going for
Totally wrong to do that but the movie was written before the pandemic
I don't condone hitting a child, but if a kid got caught doing that at my church, they would get their shit rocked. especially if they're like 10+. they know better.
@@shawnfournier19 i mean even if it was, it was still released during the pandemic. still very tone deaf
He's got a ton of toys and set up unnecessary traps. You're very right.
The first two home alone movies were gold. I watch them every year during Christmas time. But as time progressed, after Macaulay Culkin left the cast, everything went downhill. This movie is just sad and disappointing. In the first two movies the burgulars were actually big time robbers, but in this movie the “robbers” are just a poor family needing something back what was originally theirs.
Sympathetic and "relatable" villains are fine when you do them right, but if you do them wrong it makes the protagonist look like an asshole.
TFP Megatron & Dreadwing are good examples of well written sympathetic villains. Dreadwing was an duty and honor driven while realizing that his leader has strayed so far from the original cause. Meanwhile Megatron is such a well written character with an amazing backstory. He is one of those characters who you just love to watch win, you love listening to him explain his plans and watching them come to fruition.
@@thegamingkaiser2874 I forgot about Dreadwing ouch
@@_____________a_a Dreadwing knew that terminating Starscream would most likely get him killed. But even then, Dreadwing was still the most honorable decepticon.
This movie came out around the same time as Encanto and the difference in characterization is HUGE. The “villain” (can’t even really call her a villain) caused a lot of pain, but she was just doing what she thought was right to protect her family. While in this movie, the “villains” were doing the same thing, and they were punished for it, as if they were just greedy and evil.
this is *_exactly_* the wrong movie to have sympathetic villains in frankly
When I was about 12, I wrote a Home Alone sequel in which Kevin is now an adult and at every family gathering, his nieces and nephews always ask him to tell them the story of how he beat two burglars when he was a kid. When his niece is accidentally left home alone, she draws inspiration from these stories to stop some burglars.
Again, I was 12 when I wrote this, not much older than the protagonists of the Home Alone movies. When a literal child writes a better movie than a bunch of professional screenwriters, there's an issue somewhere, and it's likely not with the kid.
@@henrycook6196 tbf tho, "contrived ways to get the kid home alone on christmas" is very much on brand.
@@rinchxa But this could happen after Kevin left, if the child that is left alone is his niece, so maybe that could work ?
That sounds so cool… Man I wish you had written this movie instead 😭
ego
If you can or want to can you please upload this on ao3 or something because I'm very curious now and will think about this for months 👀👀
(Forgot to put this last time, But the old man from the first movie, the bird lady from the second movie, and the other guy from the third movie deserve the world, best characters out of the entire franchise.)
I remember even as a kid I found the original Home Alone Disturbing, I just found the intensity of the traps a bit much, but the the fact that the burglars WOULD kill kevin if they had the chance, as well as the fact of how stupid the burglars were. But this just made me sick honestly.
Edit: Haha didn’t think this would blow up, so I want to add some other stuff too.
The thing that specifically made me uncomfortable at times when the traps were used on the burglars is:
1) The intensity of the traps, specifically how they were brutal, but didn’t seem like 1 trap was enough to kill, causing the burglars to be in pain, but not enough pain to die.
2) Because even though 1 trap wasn’t enough to kill, any *normal* person would most-likely be dead after going through all of them, or at least knocked out.
*Normal.* But the thing is, the burglars aren’t normal. Their pain is showed in a cartoonish way, even though they have gone through brutal pain multiple times, they get up, hell bent on finding this kid, while the obvious decision they should make is to leave while they still can. I think the notion of that gave me comfort, like yeah, they couldn’t have expected the first couple traps, but after like 10? The burglars are practically bringing this on to themselves by continuing their hunt to find Kevin. Not to mention we barely get any backstory on the Burglars, so we just assume there just shitty guys who do this for the money, with no real justifiable reason. But the “burglars” in this movie? We get a backstory for them, and we get a pretty justifiable reason too. And it’s cause if they don’t get the doll back, they will literally be homeless and not have any money. They hesitate too. Its also because they think Max stole something from them. Anyway, yeah that’s it. If I think of anything else I’ll edit this comment again.
Also we feel bad for Kevin as we saw how poorly he was treated by his family beforehand and the fact that once they are gone he acts like a pretty ok kid, he even does stuff like walk to and from the grocery store for food. He only feels like he has to resort to these traps because he is a scared kid
I agree with your comment but ‘WOULD kill the kevin’ is such a funny sentence
Home alone was made to be a brat movie the writer wanted that to be shown you can see it in his earlier movies but I guess it’s not for everyone 🤷🏽♀️ i mean the traps were made to be childish but the falls and the screams made it more realistic maybe to realistic for some
There's also the fact that the burglars are treated as cartoons, not real people. The excessive violence they're subject to does not have realistic consequences nor realistic responses. At no point does the original Home Alone try to make you perceive the villains as human beings deserving empathy, but instead as cartoon characters getting punished for their offenses.
@@Noname-hv3hx wtf is a "Brat movie"????
I didn’t even know there was a new home alone movie. After hearing about how for once the thieves were just friendly people in a tough situation I now just feel sad about this movie and what one of my favourite movies has gone to.
If anyone was wondering how Hollywood really feels about working families, this should clear it up.
Feel better, Danny. Greg will be here when you get back!
I actually hated all the characters in this movie equally because it's poorly written and all 3 characters make bad decisions based on stupid assumptions. Actual working class families that proceed to do what this couple did, would also belong in jail.
@@MrMac6375 Oh, definitely. I just mean that the movie portrays their financial struggles as comedic, rather than traumatic.
@@MrMac6375 idk if breaking into a house to steal back what got stolen from you is necessarily jail worthy...
@@yawninglion1677 It is breaking an entering but the literal torture they were put through is enough of a punishment I think. The mom literally had her feet set on fire.
@@missserenity1090 Oh, they still broke the law, sure. I just disagree that they'd actually end up in jail IRL especially if they just took the doll back and fled. And yeah, the torture was way overboard.
The fact that the robbers are just a misunderstood middle-class couple is super sad. The protagonist is unsympathetic and the antagonists are well motivated. It's like if Walter White in Breaking Bad was a good guy, doing crimes to save their family.
A good argument could definitely be made that Walt was doing crimes to save his family; I can’t think of any for him being a good guy.
@@abikuneebus that's why I said if
but it's like in this movie walt sells meth with jesse and they both become paralyzed waist down and hank just shoots walt's jaw off after 1 day of him selling meth for no reason
the rich guys in hollywood are like " Middle Class? Does that even exist? Nah, that's just a legend I hard. Let's make fun of it. "
Danny's hair has more development than the entire script of this movie.
It look good, don't it?
Danny’s hair always looks so good, fluffy and smooth in his videos.
Such perfect hair… some people are blessed…🥲
@@yologaming5510 you can stop simping over his hair now
@@ScratchRZL dont speak that way
Wasn’t the premise of home alone to root for the kid, this movie actively makes me want to have the husband just go up and kick the child
Home alone with competent robbers:
Woah the door handle is hot
*kicks it down*
Oh watch there's toy cars
Hey are you ready for more? I've got a spider up here
*bang*
Cool now we got no witnesses
They should make a home alone where the robbers succeed and Kevin’s traps go terribly wrong.
Why
@SillySanta oh no Craig has arrived
I agree that sounds like a rlly good movie
I would watch the hell out of that
That would just be depressing
My mom made us all watch it. She loved it but my brother and I watched in horror as this conniving kid beat this lower class family into oblivion, with unnecessary brutality and spite.
@@Aryan_Psycho88 she’s usually very nice I don’t know 🥲🥲🥲 I think she just liked that the whole family was together
This feels like it could've been actually interesting if the robbers were originally turned away by what's his face's traps and then came back with their own homemade devices since they can't afford to go buy anything more intense than that. Rather than beating up a kid on screen, maybe it could turn into a big game of mouse trap
Much better idea!
A little too late for feedback on a released movie
@@zGoldenHawk but movies get feedback from being released, how else are they supposed to receive feedback?
@@zGoldenHawk What do you think a commentary video is...?
@@whata_jackalope6703 not feedback that's for sure
I just want to point out that the internet access is blocked page has a typo
It says "my have" instead of "may have" 12:06
HA That's actually funny.
the first home alone was funny because the robbers were real life cartoon characters, this one is just sad. it wasn't cartoony, it was just depressing to watch since this poor couple was being beat up grotesquely by a piece of crap kid
agreed the original harry and marv deserved it these people don't.
I watched this with my extremely rich neighbors. They thought it was hilarious.
@@mothman1756 you're joking right? that sounds like a joke someone would make
@@abirneji i hope it’s a joke ._.
As someone who gets overwhelmed in social situations and family gatherings, i understand the kid hiding to just get some time by himself to breathe and watch cartoons.
The rest of what he does is wild and definitely could be edited with different music to make it a horror movie, but that first thing was very real and relatable
Same. Like, I "run away" from family gatherings that are small in comparison to this one, so I definitely get the "I need time alone, I'm just gonna go in some random part of the house that's not occupied and do something mindless."
The rest however, Jesus Christ, get that kid to a therapist to work on sadistic tendencies.
I could also relate to the kid getting overwhelmed and needing to go be alone for a bit while the house is packed and everyone else is having fun. It was probably the only relatable and sympathetic thing about the kid in the movie. Maybe they should've done more with that. And if the 'burglars' (who weren't even really burglars because they were trying to get something that was stolen from them) weren't gonna be true villains this time around, they could have instead focused on how Max's parents left him behind out of negligence and he wasn't in a great family situation (maybe some commentary on how the McAllisters always ended up abandoning Kevin in the original movies, but never seemed to truly learn from it), how he was a black sheep, and how he might have more in common with the family he's been tormenting than the one that left him behind, so in the end, child services get involved, and the poor couple adopts Max after winning a case against his parents that resolves their financial burdens. At least then there'd be something of a positive pay-off.
@@Kyran1996 i love when random TH-cam comments make a better movie idea than the actual movie
and yeah, i've hid in the car multiple times during family gatherings, it's hard being easily overwhelmed by people (especially ones you can't stand lol)
Yea like THAT I get. But like mercilessly torturing a lower middle-class family for fun? nah. Not to mention he's MET them before right? I haven't watched the full movie yet but I definitely want to now but like it seems like he knew them. And he just like? Immediately goes to fucking torturing them rather than even a single question of what they're doing? like if he was scared then behind a closed door but this motherfucker was NOT scared.
Yes! I was searching the comments for someone else who also related
It’s fitting how Danny is talking about this movie considering he could pass as the main character of the film
@SillySanta what
@SillySanta no
@SillySanta look dude, I’m sorry that your wife left you, ok? I know it’s hard for you to deal with it but please don’t shit on the best TH-camr to cope.
@SillySanta shut up craig 🤬🤬🤬
@SillySanta Giving off Jeremy vibes
I choked on a pistachio at like 8 min in and Danny paused for a second like he was waiting for me to finish and then continued after i stopped coughing 💀💀💀
Salted?
@@humanperson9443yeah
"Kevin McCallister grew up to be Jigsaw" nah, man, MAX grew up to be Jigsaw. Actually, based on the nerf gun trap, I think he's Jigsaw right NOW
Man took the time to take his nerf guns, add sharp ends to make them like daggers, somehow hooked it up to the house to make it fire automatically, and to top it all off they somehow managed to aim at her eyes
Nah, his parents were definitely in the SAW VI traps: predatory lenders or health insurance adjusters who will let their clients die to make money.
He’s billy
Max looks at the toys and goes “Well I’m a child in need” while living in a multi-million dollar mansion, were we ever supposed to like him?🤣
All I know is that I wish harm on this child's character
in the original home alone, harry and marv were originally going to have backstories as to why they started robbing houses. it was cut because you’re not supposed to sympathize with them as they’re literally the villains lol
Marv and Harry robbed houses because they hated the commercialism of Christmas, so they robbed houses on Christmas.
10:48 it’s not even fun for kids. My sibling watched it said it was one of the worst movies they’d ever watched
This reminded me of my childhood friend who went to the same country club as Joe Pesci growing up. My friend was extremely terrified of him because he only knew him as the burglar from Home Alone. Joe Pesci was apparently very understanding and went out of his way to be nice and explain to my friend that he wasn’t actually the bad guy from the movie. When my friend told me the robber from home alone was actually a nice guy, i felt like my little eight year old brain exploded.
Yikes. Yeah, getting mistaken for the evil characters you play must be one of the worst things about being an actor.
@@lexa2310 yes BUT it must be really useful if you need to scare any kids bullying your child.
@@alexturlais8558 even so tht is kinda niche benefit lol
@@lexa2310 unfortunately in some forms of media fans take it way too far in disliking the actor attached to an unlikeable character. People really cannot separate the two and end up negatively targeting the actor. It’s a ridiculous sight to see.
Joe Pesci is a real one