In the original Kevin has many siblings as the McCallisters are a big family, so its understandable how he could easily get lost as his parents are busy juggling so many children. Max is an only child. So for his mum to not notice his absence is just negligent of her as a parent.
And it didn’t help nobody noticed the neighbor boy coming over and was talking to the airport van drivers so when one of the older girls is asked to take a head.count she counted him as Kevin being there who was actually going through there stuff in one of the vans so it was assumed at the time everyone was there when in reality everyone wasn’t there
It also makes sense because they thought they counted him when they counted that neighbor kid who shows up and starts rummaging through their luggage. This is just a couple of parents who need child services called on them.
In the original two films, Kevin sounded like his dialogue was written for a kid. This new script, the new kid has dialogue that sounds like it was written for Ricky Gervais.
@@jugularmusic undoubtedly, just imagining Ricky Gervais acting like a child in home alone with that dialogue is probably funnier than the actual movie though
In the original Kevin actually had a reason to hate his family. They were all mean to him and pushed him around to the point if you were in Kevin’s shoes you would probably wish them away too. In this film the kid barely has a reason to want to be Home Alone other then being an obnoxious brat. He doesn’t go through a character arc of growing up and he barely even seems to miss his family when they are gone.
I'm a youngest sibling also named Kevin. I grew up wishing my older brothers would dissappear. That's probably why I loved the first two Home Alone movies.
Add on to the fact that the MCallisters live in a huge house and you could imagine the headache of keeping that much of a check on everyone of those siblings in such a big environment
@@CursedCaptainGaming and on top of it sympathetic antagonists do not work in this franchise. The Wet Bendits worked well because they were actually bad guys you could root against.
A reminder that this franchise became so horrible when they offered Daniel Stern to reprise his role in part 4 he read the script and said, and I quote "Its an insult. Total garbage"
I’m gonna get hated for saying this, but I kinda liked Home Alone 4. Yeah the kid actor sucked and French Stewart was NOT MARV and the kid WAS NOT KEVIN!!! Heck none of those actors were the original characters. The story was decent and I really liked the house the dad had. If they had just used a different set of characters like they did with 3 and 5 I would have liked it way more.
Im sorry I could care less what the guy who not only starred in Bushwhacked but also A Christmas Story 2.....Clearly he doesn't care what is "garbage" but wanted to sound hip to the 30-40 year olds complaining about children's movies, while they let Spongebob Squarepants lower their kids IQ
@@lutherheggs451 I'm glad you made this comment because there may or may not be people here that care about Daniel Stern's opinion on Home Alone 4 - that's obviously contested - but there's no doubt that everyone is super keen to hear what Luther Heggs thinks about Daniel Stern.
I used to love 2 as a kid, but as an adult it's a lazy sequel. It takes what was originally a coming of age story and twists it into Kevin being irresponsible with his parents' credit card like a brat The traps were awesome though
@@SonofTiamat I still love Home Alone 2. You can't say that it's not a bad sequel. I praised Culkin, Pesci and Stern for their performances. And Kevin does become a responsible person by stopping Harry and Marv from Duncan's Toy store. Remember: "you can mess with a lot of things, but you can't mess with kids on Christmas." Kevin McAllister.
@@davidmckesey7119 I admit that I don't care about Home Alone 3 because I'm stubbornly devoted to Macaulay Culkin as a kid. But with this, I think maybe they should have stopped with number three.
Rewatched the original recently and I had forgotten how far into the movie the actual break in happened, and takes up a pretty short part of the movie. Kevin went through so much character growth before that even happened, as he figured out how to take care of himself and miss his family. Some many funny moments (even as small as the shopping bags breaking), and sweet personal growth moments (the conversation with the old neighbour in the church) happen before the break in, so we already really like the kid when it happens. And best part is that it feels like genuine growth, because he comes to the realisation himself that he doesn't feel right, no one makes him become better, though the old guy helps him make sense of it. By the time the thieves break in he's gone from a kid who lashes out in frustration and can't pack his own suitcase to a kid that can take care of himself. He becomes a good kid trying to defend himself and his home. Sequels that focus on the break in and push that as slapstick comedy miss all of that character growth of the kid and the family that makes it such a great movie.
A deleted scene from Home Alone 2 showed that Harry and Marv rationalized robbery during the holidays due to the commercialization of Christmas. It was removed because it made them too sympathetic.
That was a better decision I think. People knew right from wrong and good from bad most times back then. Now there's too many stories about bad guys and society's image of good/bad has been tainted now.
@@adamsultana8380 > People knew right from wrong and good from bad most times back then IDK if it is a matter of less people knowing right from wrong or not, I mean, on one hand social media + advancements in tech DO make instances of bad much more visible much more quickly, I really don't know ... it is possible, surely, I just don't know.
"Home Alone" was an idea that works for one movie. The second one worked because of the return of the original characters and actors. Once that was gone from the following movies, it doesn't work.
@THEmetalsonic101 The first was a classic. The second rehashed a lot of the things from the first one (showing that it was a one-idea franchise). However, having most of the original characters back from the first film, plus the hilarious efforts of Tim Curry, made the second film work, and it kept most of its charm. Any other movie, once there were no characters from the original film, didn't work and therefore sucked.
2nd is a better move than the first but most people dont agree because it was to similar to the first. 3rd was solid considering what they were up against. Rest shouldnt exist
@@SSGeorgie I love them both honestly. I do have a special place for Home Alone 2 though. Me being 13 and going to New York, I went to all the places in the movie. Even went to his hotel room. This was in like 2004.
So you’re telling me an actual human (or humans) wrote a story where a working class couple is tortured for an hour and a half by a rich beaver clown and expected most people to like it? Stay classy Disney.
@channelofstuff nah. As annoying as neoliberal slacktivist are, most of them, regardless of whether they actually practice what they preach, tend to dislike capitalists and the upper class.
@@ayrahn7893 Clearly you haven't been paying attention to the evolution of the Democratic party in the US. The upper class neoliberal "it's just $1 more per pound for your turkey" establishment run the show. The anti-capitalist socialist Bernie Sanders wing is just along for the ride.
@@matthewdunphy8524 that’s actually my fault for even using the word “Neoliberal,” lol. But nah it’s pretty obvious who actually runs shit, which is why in hindsight those who actually backed Bernie (me included) should’ve known better than to think the Dems would’ve ever let him make it too far.
Something I never noticed as a kid about the original home alone is when Kevin wakes up and goes around the house, the shots are specifically designed to show all the tools he uses for traps later (in addition to showing Kevin’s bewilderment). Buzz’s room shot now reveals the BB gun, the basement shows the clothes iron, etc. So much care went into the original film.
One more thing about this movie I noticed while watching this review: the traps. In the original Home Alone movies, the traps were actual _traps._ All of Harry and Marv's slapstick injuries came about due to their own carelessness and stupidity, with the most interaction from Kevin basically being "push a button." Meanwhile, a lot of Max's traps just consist of him _directly attacking_ the "villains." Not only is this lazier, but it just adds on to the cruelty of the premise.
I think some of the traps are more horror movie style. Like the woman almost gets her feet burned or the man burglar in a trailer clip nearly gets stabbed by icicles? Sure these are rejected Friday the 13th traps?
@@Thomasmemoryscentral Bruh, Blowtorch to the head, Straight up Electrocution, Burning the rope causing the sticky bandits to fall. The original Home Alones has their "Kevin is a psycho" moments too lol
as @Kaimax_61 said: you're forgetting A LOT of moments of the first two movies. I'm thinking about the compressed air rifle, or the paint cans, for example.
Once I saw they cast Ellie Kemper as one of the "villains" I knew it was doomed. For a comedy like this, you do not cast someone as naturally bubbly and likable as her as the character you're supposed to cheer against.
I'm deeply uncomfortable with how... refreshing? it is? to see physical abuse happen to a cute lady in a movie? Let's just not do movies like this how's that..
There are a lot of different ways this movie could of went and worked. Maybe Ellie and husband break into the house of a psychotic little boy to get the doll back. Or something that flips the Home Alone story, where the little boy is the villain. Every successive Home Alone movie, I hate each new little brat more and more. Yet Mac is still likable 30 years later.
He did that part as a favor to the director that he owed him. Candy gave the director 24 hours with him. The director used alll 24 hours with candy. The rest is movie history.
“Max himself doesn’t want to call the police because he thinks his parents will get arrested.” This movie seriously underestimates the vindictiveness of children in the 7-10 age bracket.
@@phabiorules yeah that makes sense. They need to get out of the business of running a business, and back into the business of making products sold to customers for money.
Home alone, can't exist with cell phones. "He's gonna call the cops!" "From a tree house!?" That's why none of the reboots matter. Too many ways to not be alone.
@Barnaby Wentworth because it doesn't matter, tbh. You just need a plot device to take the phone out of play. If it's plausible, no one will care how it happens except for a minority of audience members that overthink it. For years lots of movies just pretended that the internet and cellphones didn't even exist (90s to 00s iirc), and even though people would joke about it, they were still able to suspend their disbelief during the movies. Realism isn't always paramount in film. I do think writers shouldn't use the same device every time but only because it becomes cliche.
@@ut2k4wikichici film idea: Imagine if they made a film where kevin and buzz (who are still a cop and a home security guy) work together to apprehend a couple of burgalars who are responsible for a string of house robberies.
@@gloomyscribbles IDK man... I kinda liked Mac's cameo in Driv3rs. Where an unnamed character is strongly implied to be a 35 y.o. mental case Kevin who has taken to cannibalism. And the award winning reprisal of Marv by Daniel Stern as a response vid.
For sure, we don’t need to see much of how the kid got left alone or that setup because we’ve seen it. Like six times. It would be really funny if it started like a normal movie focusing on this couple and you think that they’re gonna leave their kids home alone but the twist happens and they end up breaking into this little shits house
@Brupcat It really goes to show you how big of a difference a good director can make. Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit was phenomenal and this same kid was great, but here in this movie, I found his character unbearable. The movie as a whole isn’t as bad as people make it out to be though.
Perfect, two friends in hard times who have to pay the bills in an illegal way because legal avenues of revenue are always so shut off, taking on a narcissistic spoiled brat, that's a decent remake.
Home Alone 1 & 2 will forever live in the heart of anyone he grew up in the 90s. To me Home Alone has a especail place in my heart. No other sequel could surpass this movies.
No. None ever will surpass those. Every bullshit attempt at another Home Alone movie will be compared to the original 2 movies, especially the 1st movie, and rightfully frowned upon.
I tried to get my 4 year old to watch this. He yelled a me and said “I want to watch home alone 1.” So I asked him why he didn’t like it and he said “the kid isn’t cool” and “he’s not a real 8 year old.” The people have spoken.
Interesting behind the scenes fact: Andrew Daly is not physically in the scene when they realize Max is missing is because he received a positive COVID diagnosis and has to miss shooting that sequence. That's why he's portrayed as "in the bathroom," and and his voice was added in post-production. So Max's dad was originally intended to care more!
In order for this mess to get made, someone had to say: "let's make the kid a cruel selfish brat, and make the burglars totally sympathetic...then have the kid torture them anyway." Then someone else had to say "great idea, let's go with that." Just imagine.
Rich Hollywood executives greenlit a movie where a rich kid who happens to be very spoiled attempts to murder two adults with low income who've resorted to burglary to get by and that attempted murderer is presented as the good guy. I'm shocked.
What you expect from SNL writers? SNL has been a total dumpster fire the last 10 years and are not even remotely funny anymore. Like SNL they probably thought mean spirited and cruel humour was the way to go, but they are no John Hughes, so they should’ve gone a totally different route
To me, showing kids bad movies and saying “whatever, it’s for kids” is like intentionally buying a shitty car seat and saying “whatever, it’s for kids.”
An element I don't get is how modern comedy writers smear nastiness, negativity, and an overwhelming sense of nihilism into their writing. Comedy used to be funny because it was either relatable or outrageous, while being intelligently constructed. Now we're supposed to find assholes who do bad things to people and laugh while they do it funny. I simply don't understand it.
Its why I hate "It's Always Sunny". Every Character is terrible without a shred of goodness in them and Im supposed to enjoy watching these terrible people do terrible things to others for entertainment.
@@an3582 At least the Sunny characters are typically punished for being horrible people. Unlike this movie, apparently. Delighting in the torturing of innocent people at the hands of a spoiled child... weird.
@@Arjay82 society today is in the shitter. if you think the old home alone is negative and nasty go watch the part with kevin and the old man. go watch the part where john candy gives the mom a ride home or the when kevin donates to a toy charity. or in home alone 2 when he befriends the bird lady. Moments like these are not in the modern movies. You're the one talking nonsense
I guess the worldwide grouchiness caused by covid is the reason. Still, how can they have so much trouble making a movie where the hero is heroic, and the villains are total scumbags that deserve the pain and humiliation they get?
I wouldn't be surprised if people making this joke for years is why they made the kid a psychopath. They thought they were doing what people wanted by making 'Nu-Kevin' the bad guy.
You sir, are a saint. Do you understand how many people you saved the mental anguish of having to watch twenty minutes of this movie before they turn it off? Thank you.
While Home Alone 2 is indeed a do-over of the first film but in the city, I still loved it and I feel it deserves more credit as a really good follow up. Better than anything we got after it. I think the problem is that they had such a great cast with a premise that could only work in that moment in time.
Honestly calling Home Alone 2 a do-over isn't accurate either. It puts Kevin in a completely different location with almost none of the resources he had in the first film. In Home Alone he had a house, food, a warm bed, and a place to defend himself. In Home Alone 2, he had none of that, a small amount of money, and the only house he could use legally was hollowed out. It certainly felt similar, but different enough.
if they wanted to repeat the the first and second movie over and over i would watch them because the cast is so great. add a new character like they did with tim curry and they would be way better then what we got. this video also made me want to see a modern one with the original cast.
The first movie worked because of the producer/writer, director, the cast and the john williams soundtrack.. the reason HA2 works even with flaws is because it maintained all of those and the addition's to cast etc where good. From 3 it seems they thought the elements of the formula you needed was a kid left alone, stupid criminals and pratfalls... For a legacy sequel to work we would need chris columbus, the majority of the cast returning and john williams on the soundtrack.
One simple fix to have an understandable villain without making the good guy seem like an asshole. Have the couple sell their doll to them for cheap, then learn its worth 200k, and they try and steal it back. You can understand why they want to steal it back but they're not justified in what they're doing.
I am just so glad you highlighted Catherine O’Hara’s great work on the original. I think she really does give it the heart that the later sequels lack.
The problem is that Disney doesn't know how to write villains, anymore. The "villains" are the good guys and the "hero" is the bad guy. This is not good writing.
The Original Home Alone 1 and 2 is so nostalgic simply because all character are likeable, yes.... even the burglar. Home Sweet Home Alone : "a brat torturing 2 adults for no reason" and Disney hope that people will gonna like that brat.
Im pretty sure this isn't a reboot. There have been 3 other sequels that have nothing to do with Kevin. Its just another Home Alone movie, just because they make another movie in a "series" doesn't mean they're rebooting it.
Next, let's remake "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," where Ferris is a high school computer hacker who scams people, and he steals all the money for his "day off" from various friends and high school employees.
Just like the Dumb and Dumber sequel. They were supposed to be affably stupid, but the new one turned them into utterly cruel creeps. Plus the jokes were disgusting and crude.
I feel like they should've done what they did with the Vacation reboot: have an adult Macaulay Caulkan play adult Keven who now has his own kids and one of them gets left home.
It might have been a joke, but I read somewhere that they are going to do a slight remake of home alone with an older Macaulay, called like stoned alone. I think the movie would be like he gets way too high in paranoid and starts setting up booby traps and attacking people trying to come to his house, but they're really just like his friends or the pizza delivery guy. Maybe some actual bandits get involved,
The original Home Alones (and any original version of any movie for that matter) are like spontaneous true friendship. You never saw it coming, you never planned for it, but you have that best friend for the rest of your life.
A lot of the film was filmed in my hometown Montreal so naturally I went and see the production in the West island where they were filming it. They really did a great job by transforming the whole street into a Christmas village and yeah, It was pretty cool seeing all that movie magic. Then i saw the film (and I really struggled to finish it) and was sad to see how terrible it was. They actually legit buried this franchise. Sad
I'm writing a villain in a story, and whenever I look at this movie, it gives me the motivation to keep going, knowing I'll never suck as hard as this.
I think it's more that people assumed a straight villain that's just evil for the hell of it isn't entertaining and that one has to go 'deeper.' They forget that sometimes it's just fun to root against the bad guy because they're bad.
They should just make a Home Alone short film where Kevin and Harry meeting together again in a apartment building, sitting together in a dark room and make amends. Like the cafe scene in Heat with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. Have it be filmed in black and white for aesthetic purposes.
@@mellowyellow6572 Daniel Stern (Marv) was hilarious in Otis (2008) - I know his roles since have been sporadic but Otis proves he hasn't lost that comedy timing we love him for 🙂
I feel as though not just the fact they thought rebooted home alone, but they made the main character a rich british kid tormenting two middle class parents just trying to provide for their kids. This feels really on the mark for current events oddly enough lol
Could be worst. They could have made the character a girl or a different race, ethnicity or even a different sexuality. And the creators can be BS-ing again about how they’re being more diverse and showing representation, you know all this woke garbage they say in movies.
@@KairuHakubi ehh sometimes kinda like when they sometimes count Jewish people as POC. They say it counts when they benefit more but are willing to pretend they don't anymore when they don't benefit from preaching about it
Honestly I was baffled as soon as I saw Ellie Kemper was playing one of the robbers; she just seemed too likable for the role and that's probably why they gave her a sympathetic backstory.
Honestly, while I can’t judge having not seen the movie, it feels like they’re making the same mistake Furry Vengeance made-they’re taking a bubbly, likable actor (Brendan and Ellie) and then asking us to laugh at them being tortured for most of their screen time, which just ends up being more cringeworthy than funny. Like laughing at a puppy getting abused.
Tbh I actually was entertained by the movie. It isn't what you call good, and definitely nothing to the original but it did hurt to see Ellie get tortured and hurt by the traps. I have a soft spot for that actress because I loved her so much as Erin in The Office.
@@jasonvoorheescampblood I think because of how nauseatingly woke Hollywood (and the U.S.) have become, Tropic Thunder, while a mediocre shock value type of comedy at the time, now represents a bygone era where people weren't so brittle and offended all the time.
I literally watched Jojo Rabbit for the first time yesterday, having never even heard of it before. I actually enjoyed it, despite the very bizarre premise. I mean, a movie about a child having Adolf Hitler as his imaginary friend? Strange but enjoyable.
@@davekennedy6315 It felt more like a film about a kid discovering their mom has a jew they saved during the end of the second WWII with comedy added second. It got way too serious at times despite the premise.
@@ccateni28 it kinda had to get serious otherwise it would have been in poor taste I suppose. I liked his relationship with the poor Jewish girl living in the wall. Damn, maybe I'm getting a bit too sensitive in my old age haha!
Hey yo Harry and Marv uh keep da change ya filthy amin i mean amin i mean animal. i took alotta hits to the head ya know, Apollo really wacked me good. by the way, when my ma gets home i yell YO KATE! then she puts me in a cell and sprays me with a fire hose until i get Nam flashbacks.
honestly the fact that they make fun of reboots and talk about how bad they are without making their own movie good for me had to be the most insulting part of it all.
The fact that Disney made this movie is the worst part of Home Sweet Home Alone. They know how to make classics that last forever. But they really dropped the ball with this movie.
Idk if it's just me but disney hasn't made a very good movie in a while. The last good one in my opinion was Luca but even that was serious subpar for a pixar movie. Everything just feels like they're trying to make movies to milk for merchandising purposes with everything coming below that
It speaks volumes that the kid was more likeable playing a little Nazi then in this film. However obviously not his fault. Also while I'm thinking about It I just realized that he would've made a better Artemis Fowl than the kid that Disney actually casted! Especially with this characterisation.
@@comixproviderftw_02 Well, if you ask me, I think MouseHunt felt like a Tom and Jerry scenario, and it would've been nice if Warner Bros. took inspiration from that, rather than make a Tom and Jerry movie worse the 90s one.
@@brianlbeck You don't know how much of that is true. Also, JJ didn't create star wars. Huges is the creator of Home Alone. A better comparison would be Lucas wrote the prequels. It feels silly to say the creator doesn't understand his creation.
I think a really great way to do a modern reboot would be to have the original burglars get out of prison, having changed as people and go to reconcile with an adult Kevin. Something happens and the 3 of them get trapped together and have to fend off intruders working together instead of against each other now. It would be a great continuation of existing characters and some really great interactions could happen there.
I always thought a cool Home Alone premise would be in an area, where a massive cold frost and snow storm is hitting. To the point most the town is empty. Parents are trying to get back, but are constantly lost in the blizzard. Meanwhile there are a group of looters trying to capitalize off of the vacancy of most the town.
It's sad knowing the movie is directed by Dan Mazer, the co-screenwriter of Borat. It does explain why Home Sweet Home is so mean spirited. It worked great for Borat, but not for Home Alone.
Holy shit, then that means he's technically an Oscar nominee. Disney should have put that on the poster! The New Film from Oscar Nominated Screenwriter DAN MAZER.
The best part of the movie (spoiler alert) is the cameo by Kevin’s older brother, Buzz. Which means this is not a reboot but in the same universe as the original. Buzz even mentions the shenanagans that Kevin still gets up to as an adult.
@@Predator20357 I have no idea. lol. I was just making a dark joke about his real life shannanigans. Pretty sure he probably got diddled when he was a kid. So many of them did I'm sure. Sad.
There was no point in making the "bad guys" sympathetic. There's no one to really root for because on one side you have two parents trying to get an item that they owned back from a kid they thought stole it and on the other side you have a kid who thinks the "bad guys" are trying to kidnap him and sell him. It actually makes the kid more sadistic because he's literally trying to kill them at that point. Also, the fact that they got Ellie Kemper as the "bad guy" only makes it worse. Ellie Kemper is the last person you want to have in an antagonistic role.
The writers were just trying to suspend disbelief and give them motive to incessantly try to enter the home, and accidentally made their motive too good. The Wet Bandits didn't need much motive beyond being greedy and irrational "bad guys".
@@RobKaiser_SQuest my guy you clearly didn’t watch the film because at some point the Wet Bandits’ motivation pivoted from just robbing the place to murdering Kevin.
Something else my own kids picked up on is that both original Home Alone movies actually have at least one teachable moment before all the silliness kicks in: in the first film when the burglars first show up, Kevin rapidly runs around the house to turn all the lights on scaring them off. In the second when they see each other again by chance on a busy Manhattan sidewalk, Kevin lets out an ear-piercing scream. If that happened today, one stranger may call the police or ask what’s up…hopefully. The new film has zero smart realistic things for the kid to do.
If I took a crack at a Home Alone in-cannon reboot, I think I'd make it so that Kevin is with his nephew and niece, indirectly, while their home is being broken into. You could set it up in a subversion where Butch is now a rich doctor with a beautiful French wife, and they have two children. Kevin is tasked with watching the kids while they are away for the holidays. Kevin could be away while the house is broken into so that he can't reenter, but video chat the kids and help them setup a defense around the house, telling them he's been in this situation before. At some point he could go radio silent, creating a couple new elements of conflict, and giving the kids a chance to stand alone as characters. Having two kids changes the Home Alone dynamic, where the stakes are reduced, but the family element can be explored like it hasn't been so far in the franchise. Coupled with their relationship with Kevin and his different relationship with Butch, you could explore similar concepts to the first movie while keeping them new, and focused around a teamwork aspect. I think you could do the same with the villains, casting an ensemble similar to Die Hard, where they are more competent and played straight, using reconnaissance and modern technology. Making them into a real threat. I think this would really create a great breakaway from the slapstick making it all the more ridiculous when it happens.
The enjoyability of Home Alone depended on watching _specifically_ Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern get hurt as much as it depended on Mac's charisma as a child actor, if not more.
Like yeah, I could still genuinely go for a sequel with an adult Kevin versus the finally-released-from-prison Wet Bandits, even though that'd basically just be a zanier Die Hard where the protagonist beats the crap out of a pair of elderly men.
@@TerrenceNowicki However, they have escaped from prison, attempted to rob a place, attempted to kidnap Kevin, and then tried to kill him, all this would lead to WAY MORE than 30 years, I don't even know if they'll get parole
A director was interviewed once and he was asked why so many sequals have failed and his answer was the best. He goes Godfather 2 was the best sequal of all time and that studio companies feel that sequals need to be more bigger n better than pt1 or else they think it will fail rather than doing whats right by trusting the audience who have connected with the characters
I actually liked 3. It wasn’t the family leaving Kevin alone for a third time (at that point Child Services would have taken him away at that point) and it wasn’t Marv and Harry breaking out of Jail again to be in the same place as a Kevin by chance (after the cops obtained the “Bad Guys Threaten to kill a Child” recording from 2, they likely got a much harsher sentence). It was a new family who simply allowed their kid to stay home sick for a few hours. No bad parenting here. The kid was decent as well. He saw strange people going into peoples homes and he calls the cops but because they don’t find anything they think he’s just some dumb kid making prank calls. This is a legit thing that can happen. The one complaint is that they bad guys didn’t have to be Espionage Level Bad Guys and it could have just been some Home Robbers, but it was still enjoyable to watch the mayhem occur.
I have a soft spot for 3. Don't get me wrong, I like the original and Home Alone 2 better, but 3 was funny. As you said, they didn't need secret-agents or super-spies running around as the bad guys, they could have just been your garden-variety burglars, but the story was good enough once you disregard the contrived reason that burglars are on the street. The traps were inventive. I liked that it was legitimately a new family who just happened to let their kid stay home sick for a few hours (seriously, what kid hasn't had a day home alone because their parents have to work and the kid's gotten sick? We've all been there, we can all relate, and that's what makes 3's 'at home' arc work) while burglars are doing daring daylight robberies. After calling the cops only to have the burglars get away and the cops start thinking the kid's making prank calls, the kid sets up a few booby traps and chaos (and hilarity) quickly ensues. Sure, the story was better in 1 and 2, but 3 at least tried something different within the same formula. Kid's at home, robbers are breaking into places, kid sets up some booby traps that, in the real world, would get you jail-time, but in the movie, are hilarious, robbers break into booby-trap-hell and proceed to step on every metaphorical landmine in their way, cops show up at the end and take the robbers away. It's a good simple formula. One and Two worked because Kevin's family is huge. The first time, Kevin was easily missed because one of the neighbor kids was involved early on in the chaos and got head-counted, so they left with the 'expected' number of children. The second time worked because Kevin followed the wrong person wearing a similar outfit onto the wrong plane, and in his haste, splattered the ticket lady and lost his ticket in the mess. Both movies, as a result, take a kid who is part of a huge family and put him in a situation where he's on his own. Three worked because they're just leaving the kid home for a few hours while he's sick and both parents have to work. It just so happens that the kid got a fancy new RC car that _conveniently_ happens to be carrying a super-top-secret missile guidance chip in it, one that a bunch of people are searching for. As they go from house to house, the kid calls the cops, the cops find nothing, and as is expected, they think the kid's making prank calls. Then, after some time, the criminals come calling, and in an inspired twist, this kid _also_ is a master of booby traps, rigged his house, and catches the would-be robbers as proof that he wasn't making prank calls. I haven't seen any of the others. The first 3 are the only three, in my opinion.
Wait wait wait... the “crooks” in the new home alone film are the good guys trying to get their stolen property back and in the process are getting beat up by an overweight brat... epic yikes. What an absolutely awful plot
Almost everything Disney does is soulles tbh. It seems they only put any effort in their original animated films like Luca. The MCU is fun but the movies really are the definition of a blockbuster and nothing more.
You've managed to make me laugh 4 times quoting the original two movies. You literally made Harry & Marv's quote, "It's Santa... & his Elf." 3 times funnier. Tim Curry saying, "Pardon me Sir, but I'm afraid your mistaken" was so geniusly placed. Uncle Frank saying, "YOU LITTLE JERK!" was fun. And the cherry on top of it was Kevin mouthing, "Keep the change ya filthy Animal." Though I suggest if you ever do another Home Alone or Christmas related video add Kevin saying things like, "...I DON'T THINK SO!", "Get off the phone and make me why don't ya.", "Don't you just love it when a kid wins against (2) idiots." and Kevin laughing after Tim Curry's lines. And you definitely missed the opportunity of using. "You're what the French call Les Incompetont!"
Right? Dude looks great. He spent the first like 40 years of his life looking like a healthy baby and now he just looks like a healthy regular man. Good on him managing to slim down like that.
From what I got from this movie: the upper class feeling bad for those struggling but at the same time likes to poke fun at them. It’s basically the equivalent of people running charities and only gaining a few hundred bucks while spending millions to host the event
Kid watching movie: who is he dressed like? Parent: Scarface... Tony Montana but instead of cocaine it is candy. Now watch this film and I'll show you Scarface after this. And right there the parent made two mistakes that day
@@Jsdo1980 yeah, it was on a Christmas episode of The Simpsons that functioned like a Halloween episode. Story 1: Bart and the Polar Express...Story 2: Marge and Martha Stewart fix up the house...Story 3: The Simpsons are all puppets.
Buzzs cameo felt a mixture of fan service and insulting at the same time. So this abomination is suppose to take place in the same universe as the Mccallisters and Buzz still doesn't have a good bond with Kevin?
@@Thomasmemoryscentral I never got that about Buzz. I got the feeling he and Kevin had made up, but Buzz still remembers what Kevin did. That’s just me though
What I would’ve done for a home alone reboot would be Kevin leaving his kid alone and having new wet bandits break in, but then it’d turn out at the end that Kevin set it all up so that his kid would be able to take care of himself
I always thought it would be funny if they did a crossover with Predator. No seriously. Like Kevin's all grown up and he works at a military facility. A Preadator breaks-in and Kevin uses his wits to stop him. Sounds goofy I know, but what more can you do with both franchises lol? Also this could be the first movie where you can say that Kevin fights a predator.
It could be neat seeing Kevin as a child fighting a Predator, since it'd conflict with their refusal to hurt children. "On one hand, honour dictates I won't harm this kid, but DAMN, he just caught my foot in a mousetrap!". Maybe this would result in the two series's tones mixing well. The Predator sees it as a fun challenge, but not a violent one, so we don't have an R-rated Home Alone movie xD
@@king_big_pp my aunt gave us the 2nd one on vhs so it was one of the few movies we had and we watched it a lot so I prefer 2 over one by a slight margin.
It's no secret that the original Home Alone has flaws, but damn it has some tight writing. Here's a list: - Why doesn't Kevin call the police? Because he is initially delighted that his family has left due to a previous argument and he doesn't later because he thinks he's a fugitive. - How is Kevin left behind without anyone noticing? Because the family slept in due to a power outage and there are way too many family members to account for. Sure, the Murphy kid was a bit of a contrivance, but it's not unplausible. It also doesn't help that Kevin's passport was thrown away the previous night by accident. That itself leads to the point about the airport as security was much lesser back in those days due to it being pre-9/11. - Why doesn't Kevin call his family in Paris? Because personal cell phones weren't a thing and he probably didn't know his uncle's number due to the distance between both houses (they are in France after all and it is 1990). He is once again still elated over not having his family. I will admit though that it is a bit of a contrivance that the family doesn't call the house themselves. - Why doesn't Kevin go to a family or friend's house? Because they're all gone for the holidays and once again, still elated about the family being gone. Harry and Marv surviving all those traps are a bit pushing it in terms of believability, but it's safe to say that suspension of disbelief can stretch a little far in that area. This is why the movie is both timeless but could only be made and take place in the year it was made as with all the technological and security advances that have been made in the 33 years since the first film, there is no way in heck a kid is getting left home alone during the holidays. Kevin also has a reason to be mad at his family. They constantly look down on him and blame him for things that go wrong even if it isn't his fault. If my big brother screwed me over like that as well as the rest of my family all in one night, I would get pissed too. Why should people like Max? Why should people see the couple as the evil bad guys? This would be like if Harry and Marv were looking out for an orphanage of kids as the sole caretakers and the only way to support them was by burglary and Kevin was just mad at his family because why not. Also, Kevin actually talks and acts like an 8-year-old kid. Max just acts like any adult comedian writing for a kid. Disney took a beloved holiday classic and turned it into another terrible Disney Channel Sitcom movie and I'm not talking about the good ones.
@@SHESTAGOOEYFROMOPIUS out all of political spectrum only alt left have 0 problems with woke reboots. Traditional right have obvious problems. Altright feel scammed, and a single thought of it scorches all of their souls. Each of them work hard for their money and spending it on something not meeting with their standarts is enraging. Trad left thinks that its nothing but empty noise which do not solve nothing from real problems. Only asslicking. And taking money which could be spend more wisely. At least on better movie. Middle folk is being the most sane out of them all and they actually see 0 fucks given plus incompetence giving result of woke reboots. Whoever made this looks like student who thinks it will pass exam by just showing up and actually doing nothing. (Which a valid strategy when opposite side gives 0 fucks too) But when people cares they wont forgive this. Wnd im still grossly oversimplifing promblems. Real life is much more bigger nuanced than you, stranger on internet, thinks.
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It’s quite something to create a character so unpleasant that it makes you go “this actor was so much more likable as a Hitler Youth.”
LMFAO. This comment is gold!
If you look at him as a villain in this movie, he becomes much better. It doesn't save the film, but it does show his skill as an actor.
Yeah his actor skills is great, even in this movie
Hope every one forget this “home sweet home alone” 30 years by now.
You are correct
In the original Kevin has many siblings as the McCallisters are a big family, so its understandable how he could easily get lost as his parents are busy juggling so many children. Max is an only child. So for his mum to not notice his absence is just negligent of her as a parent.
And it didn’t help nobody noticed the neighbor boy coming over and was talking to the airport van drivers so when one of the older girls is asked to take a head.count she counted him as Kevin being there who was actually going through there stuff in one of the vans so it was assumed at the time everyone was there when in reality everyone wasn’t there
It also makes sense because they thought they counted him when they counted that neighbor kid who shows up and starts rummaging through their luggage. This is just a couple of parents who need child services called on them.
Well... have you seen modern day parents? Kids are more accessories now. They just shove a screen in their hand and keep it pushing.
This was an elaborate scheme to abandon him
@@genericname2747 And I can't blame them.
In the original two films, Kevin sounded like his dialogue was written for a kid. This new script, the new kid has dialogue that sounds like it was written for Ricky Gervais.
I can't unhear it now
@@DonkeyBoyVids the only stuff from the movie I've seen is from this video but the clips chosen definitely sound like it, doesn't it? 🤣
@@jugularmusic undoubtedly, just imagining Ricky Gervais acting like a child in home alone with that dialogue is probably funnier than the actual movie though
Underrated comment 😂
Trash ass new movie didn’t even finish watching half of it cause it was trash asap
In the original Kevin actually had a reason to hate his family. They were all mean to him and pushed him around to the point if you were in Kevin’s shoes you would probably wish them away too. In this film the kid barely has a reason to want to be Home Alone other then being an obnoxious brat. He doesn’t go through a character arc of growing up and he barely even seems to miss his family when they are gone.
I'm a youngest sibling also named Kevin. I grew up wishing my older brothers would dissappear. That's probably why I loved the first two Home Alone movies.
In the original it was borderline abuse imo so no wonder he hates them, then in this one everyone is just kind of an asshole
Add on to the fact that the MCallisters live in a huge house and you could imagine the headache of keeping that much of a check on everyone of those siblings in such a big environment
@@CursedCaptainGaming and on top of it sympathetic antagonists do not work in this franchise. The Wet Bendits worked well because they were actually bad guys you could root against.
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They should just make “Angels with Filthy Souls” into a real movie at this point.
They need to leave it on my doorstep and then get the hell out of there.
@@mrmusickhimself don’t forget to give them till the count of 10.
@@patrickrobinsob1464 And they'll be keeping the change too.
Don’t give them ideas 😂😂😂
Don't gimme that! You've been smoochin' with everybody! Snuffy, Al, Leo, Little Moe with the gimpy leg, Cheeks, Boney Bob, Cliff…
A reminder that this franchise became so horrible when they offered Daniel Stern to reprise his role in part 4 he read the script and said, and I quote "Its an insult. Total garbage"
I’m gonna get hated for saying this, but I kinda liked Home Alone 4. Yeah the kid actor sucked and French Stewart was NOT MARV and the kid WAS NOT KEVIN!!! Heck none of those actors were the original characters.
The story was decent and I really liked the house the dad had. If they had just used a different set of characters like they did with 3 and 5 I would have liked it way more.
Im sorry I could care less what the guy who not only starred in Bushwhacked but also A Christmas Story 2.....Clearly he doesn't care what is "garbage" but wanted to sound hip to the 30-40 year olds complaining about children's movies, while they let Spongebob Squarepants lower their kids IQ
@@lutherheggs451 Bushwacked was great
@@lutherheggs451 I'm glad you made this comment because there may or may not be people here that care about Daniel Stern's opinion on Home Alone 4 - that's obviously contested - but there's no doubt that everyone is super keen to hear what Luther Heggs thinks about Daniel Stern.
@@lutherheggs451 Spongebob Squarepants is a lot funnier and more clever than you give it credit for.
Home Alone 1 and 2 are the only ones that exist in my opinion.
Third is okay
those are the ones I watch for the holidays
I used to love 2 as a kid, but as an adult it's a lazy sequel. It takes what was originally a coming of age story and twists it into Kevin being irresponsible with his parents' credit card like a brat
The traps were awesome though
@@SonofTiamat
I still love Home Alone 2. You can't say that it's not a bad sequel. I praised Culkin, Pesci and Stern for their performances. And Kevin does become a responsible person by stopping Harry and Marv from Duncan's Toy store.
Remember: "you can mess with a lot of things, but you can't mess with kids on Christmas."
Kevin McAllister.
@@davidmckesey7119
I admit that I don't care about Home Alone 3 because I'm stubbornly devoted to Macaulay Culkin as a kid.
But with this, I think maybe they should have stopped with number three.
Rewatched the original recently and I had forgotten how far into the movie the actual break in happened, and takes up a pretty short part of the movie. Kevin went through so much character growth before that even happened, as he figured out how to take care of himself and miss his family. Some many funny moments (even as small as the shopping bags breaking), and sweet personal growth moments (the conversation with the old neighbour in the church) happen before the break in, so we already really like the kid when it happens. And best part is that it feels like genuine growth, because he comes to the realisation himself that he doesn't feel right, no one makes him become better, though the old guy helps him make sense of it. By the time the thieves break in he's gone from a kid who lashes out in frustration and can't pack his own suitcase to a kid that can take care of himself. He becomes a good kid trying to defend himself and his home.
Sequels that focus on the break in and push that as slapstick comedy miss all of that character growth of the kid and the family that makes it such a great movie.
A deleted scene from Home Alone 2 showed that Harry and Marv rationalized robbery during the holidays due to the commercialization of Christmas. It was removed because it made them too sympathetic.
That was a better decision I think. People knew right from wrong and good from bad most times back then. Now there's too many stories about bad guys and society's image of good/bad has been tainted now.
@@adamsultana8380 > People knew right from wrong and good from bad most times back then
IDK if it is a matter of less people knowing right from wrong or not, I mean, on one hand social media + advancements in tech DO make instances of bad much more visible much more quickly, I really don't know ... it is possible, surely, I just don't know.
@@adamsultana8380 Makes sense why so many retards worship the Joker 2019 movie like a bunch of losers.
@@scarface6062 it was a good movie, but ya it's true.
@@scarface6062 Makes sense why so many retards worship the Cruella 2021 movie like a bunch of losers
"Home Alone" was an idea that works for one movie.
The second one worked because of the return of the original characters and actors. Once that was gone from the following movies, it doesn't work.
Exactly right. The door sealed shut after part 2.
@THEmetalsonic101 yeah no surprise there. Same with first 2 Terminators, star wars original trilogy, first 3 Indiana Jones, etc. You get the idea.
@THEmetalsonic101 The first was a classic.
The second rehashed a lot of the things from the first one (showing that it was a one-idea franchise).
However, having most of the original characters back from the first film, plus the hilarious efforts of Tim Curry, made the second film work, and it kept most of its charm.
Any other movie, once there were no characters from the original film, didn't work and therefore sucked.
2nd is a better move than the first but most people dont agree because it was to similar to the first. 3rd was solid considering what they were up against. Rest shouldnt exist
@@SSGeorgie I love them both honestly. I do have a special place for Home Alone 2 though. Me being 13 and going to New York, I went to all the places in the movie. Even went to his hotel room. This was in like 2004.
So you’re telling me an actual human (or humans) wrote a story where a working class couple is tortured for an hour and a half by a rich beaver clown and expected most people to like it?
Stay classy Disney.
Product of the times.
@channelofstuff nah. As annoying as neoliberal slacktivist are, most of them, regardless of whether they actually practice what they preach, tend to dislike capitalists and the upper class.
@@ayrahn7893 Clearly you haven't been paying attention to the evolution of the Democratic party in the US. The upper class neoliberal "it's just $1 more per pound for your turkey" establishment run the show. The anti-capitalist socialist Bernie Sanders wing is just along for the ride.
@@matthewdunphy8524 that’s actually my fault for even using the word “Neoliberal,” lol. But nah it’s pretty obvious who actually runs shit, which is why in hindsight those who actually backed Bernie (me included) should’ve known better than to think the Dems would’ve ever let him make it too far.
@@ayrahn7893 well done, you are part of the problem 👏
Something I never noticed as a kid about the original home alone is when Kevin wakes up and goes around the house, the shots are specifically designed to show all the tools he uses for traps later (in addition to showing Kevin’s bewilderment). Buzz’s room shot now reveals the BB gun, the basement shows the clothes iron, etc. So much care went into the original film.
Chekov's Gun 101.
scene composition, and as previously mentioned, Chekov's gun.
One more thing about this movie I noticed while watching this review: the traps. In the original Home Alone movies, the traps were actual _traps._ All of Harry and Marv's slapstick injuries came about due to their own carelessness and stupidity, with the most interaction from Kevin basically being "push a button."
Meanwhile, a lot of Max's traps just consist of him _directly attacking_ the "villains." Not only is this lazier, but it just adds on to the cruelty of the premise.
I think some of the traps are more horror movie style. Like the woman almost gets her feet burned or the man burglar in a trailer clip nearly gets stabbed by icicles? Sure these are rejected Friday the 13th traps?
I think you're forgetting a lot of the first 2 movies. Remember when Kevin nailed Marv in the forehead with a brick thrown from the roof in HA2?
@@corriblehunt4554 That was my favorite part.
@@Thomasmemoryscentral Bruh, Blowtorch to the head, Straight up Electrocution, Burning the rope causing the sticky bandits to fall. The original Home Alones has their "Kevin is a psycho" moments too lol
as @Kaimax_61 said: you're forgetting A LOT of moments of the first two movies. I'm thinking about the compressed air rifle, or the paint cans, for example.
Once I saw they cast Ellie Kemper as one of the "villains" I knew it was doomed. For a comedy like this, you do not cast someone as naturally bubbly and likable as her as the character you're supposed to cheer against.
I'm deeply uncomfortable with how... refreshing? it is? to see physical abuse happen to a cute lady in a movie? Let's just not do movies like this how's that..
Same with Rob Delaney.
There are a lot of different ways this movie could of went and worked. Maybe Ellie and husband break into the house of a psychotic little boy to get the doll back. Or something that flips the Home Alone story, where the little boy is the villain. Every successive Home Alone movie, I hate each new little brat more and more. Yet Mac is still likable 30 years later.
God I miss John Candy, such a small part in the original film but he just knocks it out of the park.
Like, he represented the actual heart of Christmas which seems to be missing from the sequels.
@@candydemure iunno the second one always felt way Christmassier to me.
He knocked everything out of the park.
Candy was absolutely on fire during that time frame(Trains, Buck, Home Alone).
He did that part as a favor to the director that he owed him. Candy gave the director 24 hours with him. The director used alll 24 hours with candy. The rest is movie history.
“Max himself doesn’t want to call the police because he thinks his parents will get arrested.”
This movie seriously underestimates the vindictiveness of children in the 7-10 age bracket.
I’m really starting to think Hollywood just doesn’t care anymore, I mean, Disney has no competition and they own every popular franchise
They only care if it makes them $$$.
@@chumbucketjones9761 there's no possible way this is making money vs making something good
We need another Don Bluth
@@KairuHakubi you also have to think, this is free on disney plus. It was made to pqd their catalogue, not to make money at the box office.
@@phabiorules yeah that makes sense. They need to get out of the business of running a business, and back into the business of making products sold to customers for money.
Being the worst of all the Home Alone movies is a hell of an achievement.
Hashtag ill judged
I want to die
I just hope, people will forget this “new movie” coming up in 2021.
Every movie after the second one is a pissing contest for who can suck the most
I still think I enjoyed it more than the 4th one but it's been several years since I've seen it.
I still perfer Home Alone 4 & 5 (never knew it exist) are the worst.
Home alone, can't exist with cell phones.
"He's gonna call the cops!"
"From a tree house!?"
That's why none of the reboots matter. Too many ways to not be alone.
@Barnaby Wentworth or the cops simply get killed. Easy
@@yerocnevets0m3ga or the police are all ghosts and it's not earth. Easy.
No service ;)
@Barnaby Wentworth because it doesn't matter, tbh. You just need a plot device to take the phone out of play. If it's plausible, no one will care how it happens except for a minority of audience members that overthink it. For years lots of movies just pretended that the internet and cellphones didn't even exist (90s to 00s iirc), and even though people would joke about it, they were still able to suspend their disbelief during the movies. Realism isn't always paramount in film. I do think writers shouldn't use the same device every time but only because it becomes cliche.
They could make it a quarantined town or smth
I do think that Buzz is the only character who was done right and I love the idea of Kevin starting a business to keep houses safe
Two good references cannot save an hour and a half worth of crap
@@Thomasmemoryscentral It's a shame those references were wasted here on this film.
@@Mulluns imagine if they made a movie about kevin and buzz as adults. That would be a great movie
@@ut2k4wikichici film idea: Imagine if they made a film where kevin and buzz (who are still a cop and a home security guy) work together to apprehend a couple of burgalars who are responsible for a string of house robberies.
@@gloomyscribbles IDK man...
I kinda liked Mac's cameo in Driv3rs. Where an unnamed character is strongly implied to be a 35 y.o. mental case Kevin who has taken to cannibalism. And the award winning reprisal of Marv by Daniel Stern as a response vid.
Why didn't they just make the robbers the protagonists?
That'd be a fun little subversion of the Home Alone formula, and we wouldn't have to like Max
For sure, we don’t need to see much of how the kid got left alone or that setup because we’ve seen it. Like six times. It would be really funny if it started like a normal movie focusing on this couple and you think that they’re gonna leave their kids home alone but the twist happens and they end up breaking into this little shits house
They pretty much are. Max has way less screen time, probably because the child actor was so bad, and Ellie Kemper is much more fun to watch!
@Brupcat
It really goes to show you how big of a difference a good director can make. Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit was phenomenal and this same kid was great, but here in this movie, I found his character unbearable. The movie as a whole isn’t as bad as people make it out to be though.
Perfect, two friends in hard times who have to pay the bills in an illegal way because legal avenues of revenue are always so shut off, taking on a narcissistic spoiled brat, that's a decent remake.
I swear I read, when this was first announced, that this was what they were going to do?
Home Alone 1 & 2 will forever live in the heart of anyone he grew up in the 90s. To me Home Alone has a especail place in my heart. No other sequel could surpass this movies.
I grew up in the 2000's to early 2010's and they got special places in my heart
No. None ever will surpass those. Every bullshit attempt at another Home Alone movie will be compared to the original 2 movies, especially the 1st movie, and rightfully frowned upon.
The first two will always be the best ones.
Yeah, the guy who produced the original two movies actually said something on Twitter about how he’s entirely against this monstrosity
I always gave Home Alone 3 a pass, any other Home Alone after 3, No
I tried to get my 4 year old to watch this. He yelled a me and said “I want to watch home alone 1.” So I asked him why he didn’t like it and he said “the kid isn’t cool” and “he’s not a real 8 year old.” The people have spoken.
lol I love your son😂
Smart kiddo
Bless your kid. He will grow up to be a fine disconcerner of good and bad movies.
This is the only "my 4 year old" story I think I've ever actually believed on the internet.
@@kaijudirector5336 thanks. I love watching movies with him for that reason.
Interesting behind the scenes fact: Andrew Daly is not physically in the scene when they realize Max is missing is because he received a positive COVID diagnosis and has to miss shooting that sequence. That's why he's portrayed as "in the bathroom," and and his voice was added in post-production. So Max's dad was originally intended to care more!
In order for this mess to get made, someone had to say: "let's make the kid a cruel selfish brat, and make the burglars totally sympathetic...then have the kid torture them anyway." Then someone else had to say "great idea, let's go with that."
Just imagine.
I watched Ryan George's Pitch Meeting for this movie. To think that this scenario is probably not very far away from reality is mind boggling.
@@leung9401 Jesus Christ...
@@Trigger200284 I know... one of hist best Pitch Meeting episodes.
Rich Hollywood executives greenlit a movie where a rich kid who happens to be very spoiled attempts to murder two adults with low income who've resorted to burglary to get by and that attempted murderer is presented as the good guy.
I'm shocked.
What you expect from SNL writers? SNL has been a total dumpster fire the last 10 years and are not even remotely funny anymore. Like SNL they probably thought mean spirited and cruel humour was the way to go, but they are no John Hughes, so they should’ve gone a totally different route
I hate the “it’s just a kids movie” excuse. Kids deserve good media too!
I absolutely agree. I despise how Kids get dumbed down, mean spirited garbage, nowadays.
In fact children's media should be held to the highest standard possible. We need CS Lewis back.
@@bigduke5902 Damn straight.
They get dumb stuff to soften their minds and brainwash them.
To me, showing kids bad movies and saying “whatever, it’s for kids” is like intentionally buying a shitty car seat and saying “whatever, it’s for kids.”
An element I don't get is how modern comedy writers smear nastiness, negativity, and an overwhelming sense of nihilism into their writing. Comedy used to be funny because it was either relatable or outrageous, while being intelligently constructed. Now we're supposed to find assholes who do bad things to people and laugh while they do it funny. I simply don't understand it.
Cynicism can be funny, but not in Home Alone.
Its why I hate "It's Always Sunny". Every Character is terrible without a shred of goodness in them and Im supposed to enjoy watching these terrible people do terrible things to others for entertainment.
You don't understand it because you have a conscience and the writers don't.
@@an3582 At least the Sunny characters are typically punished for being horrible people. Unlike this movie, apparently. Delighting in the torturing of innocent people at the hands of a spoiled child... weird.
@@Arjay82 society today is in the shitter. if you think the old home alone is negative and nasty go watch the part with kevin and the old man. go watch the part where john candy gives the mom a ride home or the when kevin donates to a toy charity. or in home alone 2 when he befriends the bird lady. Moments like these are not in the modern movies. You're the one talking nonsense
“Lazy and mean-spirited “ seems to be the trend of this current era of entertainment.
just like your common twitter user.
I guess the worldwide grouchiness caused by covid is the reason. Still, how can they have so much trouble making a movie where the hero is heroic, and the villains are total scumbags that deserve the pain and humiliation they get?
@@MegamanXfan21xx Assholes were assholes long before Covid. Covid just made them show their true colors.
Why can't they just give us what we all really want; a new Saw film with Kevin becoming the new Jigsaw.
I wouldn't be surprised if people making this joke for years is why they made the kid a psychopath. They thought they were doing what people wanted by making 'Nu-Kevin' the bad guy.
If you watched this movie you'd know Kevin runs his own home security firm, and this whole movie was kinda his fault
@@christpuncher121 The little jerk!
That’s basically just The Collector.
No thanks.
You sir, are a saint. Do you understand how many people you saved the mental anguish of having to watch twenty minutes of this movie before they turn it off? Thank you.
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I liked it. I know, I'm strange. I rank it 4th. It isn't a yearly holiday watch for me like 1, 2, and 3...but I laughed.
@@thomaslance5428 I liked it too, but only if you watch you it that's it so bad its good.
While Home Alone 2 is indeed a do-over of the first film but in the city, I still loved it and I feel it deserves more credit as a really good follow up. Better than anything we got after it. I think the problem is that they had such a great cast with a premise that could only work in that moment in time.
I love the time of movies when "going to New York" was enough of a reason to make a sequel
Honestly calling Home Alone 2 a do-over isn't accurate either. It puts Kevin in a completely different location with almost none of the resources he had in the first film. In Home Alone he had a house, food, a warm bed, and a place to defend himself. In Home Alone 2, he had none of that, a small amount of money, and the only house he could use legally was hollowed out.
It certainly felt similar, but different enough.
if they wanted to repeat the the first and second movie over and over i would watch them because the cast is so great. add a new character like they did with tim curry and they would be way better then what we got. this video also made me want to see a modern one with the original cast.
The first movie worked because of the producer/writer, director, the cast and the john williams soundtrack.. the reason HA2 works even with flaws is because it maintained all of those and the addition's to cast etc where good. From 3 it seems they thought the elements of the formula you needed was a kid left alone, stupid criminals and pratfalls... For a legacy sequel to work we would need chris columbus, the majority of the cast returning and john williams on the soundtrack.
I always considered HA2 like the Aliens to HA1's Alien where it does expand the formula and makes it feels like a natural evolution for a sequel.
One simple fix to have an understandable villain without making the good guy seem like an asshole. Have the couple sell their doll to them for cheap, then learn its worth 200k, and they try and steal it back.
You can understand why they want to steal it back but they're not justified in what they're doing.
I am just so glad you highlighted Catherine O’Hara’s great work on the original. I think she really does give it the heart that the later sequels lack.
She was heck of a lot better than the mom in this one.
She's always been very underrated.
The problem is that Disney doesn't know how to write villains, anymore. The "villains" are the good guys and the "hero" is the bad guy. This is not good writing.
It’s left wing propaganda to brainwash youth into thinking the wrong thing is good. It’s all planned
@@GeorgeZimmermen hmmmm
@@GeorgeZimmermen I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing this.
@@GeorgeZimmermen I genuinely can’t tell if comments like this are satire anymore.
@@GeorgeZimmermen dude im a fucking kid i know how to differentiate something good from bad
Just the description of this is painful. Forget *Home Alone,* this isn’t even good enough to be a *Problem Child* sequel.
But even the problem child was justified in why he acted that way.
YES! It finally clicked. These Home Alone sequels remind me of Problem Child 1/2. But even worse.
@@RichV20 someone hasn't seen problem child 3
The Original Home Alone 1 and 2 is so nostalgic simply because all character are likeable, yes.... even the burglar.
Home Sweet Home Alone : "a brat torturing 2 adults for no reason" and Disney hope that people will gonna like that brat.
Sounds just like another John Hughes reboot, “Vacation”, where it was just mean spirited knock off of the original idea.
Im pretty sure this isn't a reboot. There have been 3 other sequels that have nothing to do with Kevin. Its just another Home Alone movie, just because they make another movie in a "series" doesn't mean they're rebooting it.
OH NO DON’T REMIND ME!!!
@@lutherheggs451 I mean since Buzz is in it, it's a sequel. A terrible, terrible sequel, but technically the first proper sequel since 2
Next, let's remake "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," where Ferris is a high school computer hacker who scams people, and he steals all the money for his "day off" from various friends and high school employees.
Just like the Dumb and Dumber sequel. They were supposed to be affably stupid, but the new one turned them into utterly cruel creeps. Plus the jokes were disgusting and crude.
Hes not pulling punches folks, the editing in this ones hilarious
I feel like they should've done what they did with the Vacation reboot: have an adult Macaulay Caulkan play adult Keven who now has his own kids and one of them gets left home.
It might have been a joke, but I read somewhere that they are going to do a slight remake of home alone with an older Macaulay, called like stoned alone. I think the movie would be like he gets way too high in paranoid and starts setting up booby traps and attacking people trying to come to his house, but they're really just like his friends or the pizza delivery guy. Maybe some actual bandits get involved,
@@eddiedingle767 yeah with Ryan Reynolds I think.
i like another person's idea that posted here: Make the robbers the protagonists and the kid a bratty little annoying antagonist.
They should just remake the original home alone and not change anything except having adult Macaulay Caulkan play kevin
@@Doomzdayxx wasn't that was this shitty reboot did, lol?
The original Home Alones (and any original version of any movie for that matter) are like spontaneous true friendship. You never saw it coming, you never planned for it, but you have that best friend for the rest of your life.
That Marv falling with the sequels sequence is priceless 🤣
That was a great intro. I got a soft spot for 3 knowing its bad.
Dude that's MARV.
That's marv
Wow, whatta hold
A lot of the film was filmed in my hometown Montreal so naturally I went and see the production in the West island where they were filming it. They really did a great job by transforming the whole street into a Christmas village and yeah, It was pretty cool seeing all that movie magic. Then i saw the film (and I really struggled to finish it) and was sad to see how terrible it was. They actually legit buried this franchise. Sad
What a sad place to make a dislike movie, but yeah I really love you small town.
So this franchised wasn't already buried after the 2nd film? I don't get it. They all been trash without Culkin
Rosemont on est là frère
I wouldn't necceraly call this "death", more like gruesome zombiefication. This Franchize died long long time ago.
More Like necrophilia dindy needs to stop fugging these dead franchises corps
It's been... simpsonized
It should have never been a Franchise
Then why you dumbells keep watching it
I’m almost convinced that everyone is too afraid to make actually threatening villains now.
Because they are the villains now
I'm writing a villain in a story, and whenever I look at this movie, it gives me the motivation to keep going, knowing I'll never suck as hard as this.
We need a VILLAN renaissance!
I think it's more that people assumed a straight villain that's just evil for the hell of it isn't entertaining and that one has to go 'deeper.' They forget that sometimes it's just fun to root against the bad guy because they're bad.
I really hate this modern sentiment that bad guys need to be sympathetic or have a backstory that explains why they the way they are.
I guess Disney's excuse for making these bad reboots is, "Drugs cost money."
They should just make a Home Alone short film where Kevin and Harry meeting together again in a apartment building, sitting together in a dark room and make amends. Like the cafe scene in Heat with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. Have it be filmed in black and white for aesthetic purposes.
Why can’t Marv be there?
@@mellowyellow6572 Is he acting anymore?
@@comixproviderftw_02 Does it matter? This is your fantasy. The man hasn’t been in anything worthwhile since C.H.U.D I think he can spare the time.
@@mellowyellow6572 Daniel Stern (Marv) was hilarious in Otis (2008) - I know his roles since have been sporadic but Otis proves he hasn't lost that comedy timing we love him for 🙂
@@namethestars I know, I know. The joke was supposed to be that C.H.U.D is arguably his worst role.
I feel as though not just the fact they thought rebooted home alone, but they made the main character a rich british kid tormenting two middle class parents just trying to provide for their kids. This feels really on the mark for current events oddly enough lol
yeah it's really weird when a movie can be warped morally and tonally both by sensible standards AND modern standards.
Could be worst. They could have made the character a girl or a different race, ethnicity or even a different sexuality. And the creators can be BS-ing again about how they’re being more diverse and showing representation, you know all this woke garbage they say in movies.
@@osmanyousif7849 does fat count as one of their categories?
@@KairuHakubi ehh sometimes kinda like when they sometimes count Jewish people as POC. They say it counts when they benefit more but are willing to pretend they don't anymore when they don't benefit from preaching about it
Disney is absolutely destroying everything it touches. And honestly the death of home alone came with the 3rd one
Honestly I was baffled as soon as I saw Ellie Kemper was playing one of the robbers; she just seemed too likable for the role and that's probably why they gave her a sympathetic backstory.
@Just Dancing Machine Yeah I thought the same thing, that she was playing The Mom.
Honestly, while I can’t judge having not seen the movie, it feels like they’re making the same mistake Furry Vengeance made-they’re taking a bubbly, likable actor (Brendan and Ellie) and then asking us to laugh at them being tortured for most of their screen time, which just ends up being more cringeworthy than funny. Like laughing at a puppy getting abused.
Ellie would've been great as a new Catherine O'Hara mom. Ellie probably would've worked too as a charming villain.
Tbh I actually was entertained by the movie. It isn't what you call good, and definitely nothing to the original but it did hurt to see Ellie get tortured and hurt by the traps. I have a soft spot for that actress because I loved her so much as Erin in The Office.
She’s really deserves more better roles. I personality think she’s the best female actress from The Office.
Somehow, “Tropic Thunder” is aging better than it had any right to, the more I think about the past decade of reboots and remakes.
What you "than it had any right to" ?
@@jasonvoorheescampblood I think because of how nauseatingly woke Hollywood (and the U.S.) have become, Tropic Thunder, while a mediocre shock value type of comedy at the time, now represents a bygone era where people weren't so brittle and offended all the time.
@@Doomzdayxx Hollywood and US are still great though
@@jasonvoorheescampblood still the best place to live, for sure. Just stay away from democrat run garbage heaps.
@@Doomzdayxx I wouldnt say the Best place to live
The kid was all right in Jojo Rabbit but here, good lord.
A bad script is a bad script, it isn’t the kid’s fault
I literally watched Jojo Rabbit for the first time yesterday, having never even heard of it before. I actually enjoyed it, despite the very bizarre premise. I mean, a movie about a child having Adolf Hitler as his imaginary friend? Strange but enjoyable.
@@davekennedy6315 It felt more like a film about a kid discovering their mom has a jew they saved during the end of the second WWII with comedy added second.
It got way too serious at times despite the premise.
@@ccateni28 it kinda had to get serious otherwise it would have been in poor taste I suppose. I liked his relationship with the poor Jewish girl living in the wall. Damn, maybe I'm getting a bit too sensitive in my old age haha!
These clips make it look like they wanted a mini James Corden. Poor kid.
They made the main character unlikeable and made the "bad guys" not the bad guys but sympathetic.
In the words of AVGN, "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?"
They should just do Home Stallone, with Sly as Kevin McCallister. He's played by an adult but he's still supposed to be a kid.
Home Stallone was basically the last act of the fifth Rambo movie.
Theres a deep fake of that I'm pretty sure
Him outfitting the house with traps would be a great training montage with some Eye of the Tiger or Hearts on Fire!
This is brilliant
Hey yo Harry and Marv uh keep da change ya filthy amin i mean amin i mean animal. i took alotta hits to the head ya know, Apollo really wacked me good. by the way, when my ma gets home i yell YO KATE! then she puts me in a cell and sprays me with a fire hose until i get Nam flashbacks.
honestly the fact that they make fun of reboots and talk about how bad they are without making their own movie good for me had to be the most insulting part of it all.
Thanks for making this! I saw it was out but I've zero intention of watching it. This way I get the jist AND the analysis! Hooray 😃
Home Alone 6 : X-PAC Heat
OOOooooooooo YEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, SLIM JIM
I'd have rather seen a Xanta Claus movie, where Ted Dibiase coaches the anti-Santa to do his bidding.
R.I.P. Balls Mahoney
Seeing that as a 'futuristic' movie feels so 'Orwellian'.
You guys get about haha. What bar????
The fact that Disney made this movie is the worst part of Home Sweet Home Alone. They know how to make classics that last forever. But they really dropped the ball with this movie.
Idk if it's just me but disney hasn't made a very good movie in a while. The last good one in my opinion was Luca but even that was serious subpar for a pixar movie. Everything just feels like they're trying to make movies to milk for merchandising purposes with everything coming below that
Disney is a soulless corporation that only knows how to make money through brand recognition. They don’t know shit about making good movies
In 20 years, Disney will own everything. Every movie they make will be a remake of a reboot of another reboot that was a reboot of a remake.
Disney forgot how to make a good movie a long time ago.
@@buffoonustroglodytus4688 besides animated movies, i agree
It speaks volumes that the kid was more likeable playing a little Nazi then in this film.
However obviously not his fault.
Also while I'm thinking about It I just realized that he would've made a better Artemis Fowl than the kid that Disney actually casted!
Especially with this characterisation.
he is a fantastic performer. if he was deliberately meant to be the villain here, well done
He looks like he'd play a good "young Nick Frost" in something
Ｇｒｉｌｌａ Ｄｏｇ who would play young Simon Pegg?
Grow up. Watch Europa The Last Battle and learn something
There's a time and place for a rich asshole boy genius.... And this movie was not this
It should've ended with 2. Part 2 was the perfect sequel tbh. Once Culkin grew up the role was dead. That was his role.
Agree.
Back when producers, writes, directors a n d developers actually took their time to make things meaningful. Gosh, I missed those times
To me, Home Alone is basically Tom & Jerry. A cat and mouse chase where the mouse fights back. It looks like this remake missed that.
And much like Tom and Jerry, it’s a formula that can never be replicated.
@@comixproviderftw_02 Well, if you ask me, I think MouseHunt felt like a Tom and Jerry scenario, and it would've been nice if Warner Bros. took inspiration from that, rather than make a Tom and Jerry movie worse the 90s one.
@@robbiewalker2831 MouseHunt had some tonal issues in retrospect, but I enjoyed it a lot nonetheless.
If the original is Tom & Jerry then this reboot is Itchy & Scratchy
@@tristanhartup4936 itchy & scratchy but from season 15 onwards
Once again Disney fails to understand the core essence of a franchise it's gobbled up.
They don't even understand their own franchises! Their live action remakes are beyond egregious. Especially the lion king one...
@@steamedhamlet we don’t talk about the Lion King remake.
John Hughes is one of the writers on this movie.
@@icecreamhero2375 yeah and JJ wrote Star Wars so what's your point? Writers almost never have creative control over a movie.
@@brianlbeck You don't know how much of that is true. Also, JJ didn't create star wars. Huges is the creator of Home Alone. A better comparison would be Lucas wrote the prequels. It feels silly to say the creator doesn't understand his creation.
I think a really great way to do a modern reboot would be to have the original burglars get out of prison, having changed as people and go to reconcile with an adult Kevin. Something happens and the 3 of them get trapped together and have to fend off intruders working together instead of against each other now. It would be a great continuation of existing characters and some really great interactions could happen there.
i would pay a 100 bucks for that
I would pay 200 to watch that
I would maybe consider going to a theater for the first time in five years to watch that. Modern Hollywood really sucks.
Id buy a ticket for that
Count me in, I’d be first in line to watch that
I always thought a cool Home Alone premise would be in an area, where a massive cold frost and snow storm is hitting. To the point most the town is empty. Parents are trying to get back, but are constantly lost in the blizzard. Meanwhile there are a group of looters trying to capitalize off of the vacancy of most the town.
It's sad knowing the movie is directed by Dan Mazer, the co-screenwriter of Borat. It does explain why Home Sweet Home is so mean spirited. It worked great for Borat, but not for Home Alone.
Holy shit, then that means he's technically an Oscar nominee. Disney should have put that on the poster! The New Film from Oscar Nominated Screenwriter DAN MAZER.
@@BaranoffIsaac But still, it was from him in some capacity. It's not lying if it's technically true, lol.
Well he also directed Dirty Grandpa which... Ugh! So not that surprising.
@@BaranoffIsaac Good for you (!)
Dan Mazer is decent though, but the executive producers for this bland soft reboot are gross after all.
The best part of the movie (spoiler alert) is the cameo by Kevin’s older brother, Buzz. Which means this is not a reboot but in the same universe as the original. Buzz even mentions the shenanagans that Kevin still gets up to as an adult.
heroin..
It's not a spoiler when Disney Plus shows a still of Buzz as a cop on the video selection on the app.
@@Shlogger Did he relapsed or something? I thought he was doing better now
@@malcorub the fuck?
@@Predator20357 I have no idea. lol. I was just making a dark joke about his real life shannanigans. Pretty sure he probably got diddled when he was a kid. So many of them did I'm sure. Sad.
The best joke in the whole movie is the "McCallister Home Security" sign in front of Max's house.
Just when James Corden cant get any worse he plays the kid in this film.
They made a Home Alone reboot
"Look what you did, you little jerks!"
There was no point in making the "bad guys" sympathetic. There's no one to really root for because on one side you have two parents trying to get an item that they owned back from a kid they thought stole it and on the other side you have a kid who thinks the "bad guys" are trying to kidnap him and sell him. It actually makes the kid more sadistic because he's literally trying to kill them at that point. Also, the fact that they got Ellie Kemper as the "bad guy" only makes it worse. Ellie Kemper is the last person you want to have in an antagonistic role.
The writers were just trying to suspend disbelief and give them motive to incessantly try to enter the home, and accidentally made their motive too good. The Wet Bandits didn't need much motive beyond being greedy and irrational "bad guys".
@@RobKaiser_SQuest my guy you clearly didn’t watch the film because at some point the Wet Bandits’ motivation pivoted from just robbing the place to murdering Kevin.
This not the franchise to do deep sympathetic villains.
@@calebray1834 Especially when it involves people trying to instigate another World War, lol.
Something else my own kids picked up on is that both original Home Alone movies actually have at least one teachable moment before all the silliness kicks in: in the first film when the burglars first show up, Kevin rapidly runs around the house to turn all the lights on scaring them off. In the second when they see each other again by chance on a busy Manhattan sidewalk, Kevin lets out an ear-piercing scream. If that happened today, one stranger may call the police or ask what’s up…hopefully. The new film has zero smart realistic things for the kid to do.
If I took a crack at a Home Alone in-cannon reboot, I think I'd make it so that Kevin is with his nephew and niece, indirectly, while their home is being broken into. You could set it up in a subversion where Butch is now a rich doctor with a beautiful French wife, and they have two children. Kevin is tasked with watching the kids while they are away for the holidays. Kevin could be away while the house is broken into so that he can't reenter, but video chat the kids and help them setup a defense around the house, telling them he's been in this situation before. At some point he could go radio silent, creating a couple new elements of conflict, and giving the kids a chance to stand alone as characters. Having two kids changes the Home Alone dynamic, where the stakes are reduced, but the family element can be explored like it hasn't been so far in the franchise. Coupled with their relationship with Kevin and his different relationship with Butch, you could explore similar concepts to the first movie while keeping them new, and focused around a teamwork aspect. I think you could do the same with the villains, casting an ensemble similar to Die Hard, where they are more competent and played straight, using reconnaissance and modern technology. Making them into a real threat. I think this would really create a great breakaway from the slapstick making it all the more ridiculous when it happens.
“Hey let’s remake Home Alone and make the kid the villain that you hope will die.”
“Brilliant!”
I wanna know who decided to cgi a snowman being crashed through rather than just do it with an actual snowman
Because studios are too lazy to do practical effects in live action movies, so they use terrible cgi instead.
The very Irish Aisling Bea doing a Brit accent is hilarious.
Love Aisling Bea so hearing that accent was like watching a cat bark.
The enjoyability of Home Alone depended on watching _specifically_ Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern get hurt as much as it depended on Mac's charisma as a child actor, if not more.
Like yeah, I could still genuinely go for a sequel with an adult Kevin versus the finally-released-from-prison Wet Bandits, even though that'd basically just be a zanier Die Hard where the protagonist beats the crap out of a pair of elderly men.
@@TerrenceNowicki funny thing is that the wet bandits will never be released from prison
@@challengethesad They might be able to get parole after 30 years.
@@TerrenceNowicki that would've been the case
@@TerrenceNowicki
However, they have escaped from prison, attempted to rob a place, attempted to kidnap Kevin, and then tried to kill him, all this would lead to WAY MORE than 30 years, I don't even know if they'll get parole
"There's something so human about taking something great and ruining it a little so you can have more of it." - Michael, The Good Place.
“Absolute nonsense! Nothing can ever ruin MONEY!” - The Walt Disney Company
A director was interviewed once and he was asked why so many sequals have failed and his answer was the best. He goes Godfather 2 was the best sequal of all time and that studio companies feel that sequals need to be more bigger n better than pt1 or else they think it will fail rather than doing whats right by trusting the audience who have connected with the characters
Empire
In Most cases sequels are better in my opinion
The best sequel of all time is terminator 2 dammit!
@@GeorgeZimmermen I personally think the Best sequel ever is Predator 2
The best sequel ever was Edward Penishands 2!
I actually liked 3. It wasn’t the family leaving Kevin alone for a third time (at that point Child Services would have taken him away at that point) and it wasn’t Marv and Harry breaking out of Jail again to be in the same place as a Kevin by chance (after the cops obtained the “Bad Guys Threaten to kill a Child” recording from 2, they likely got a much harsher sentence).
It was a new family who simply allowed their kid to stay home sick for a few hours. No bad parenting here. The kid was decent as well. He saw strange people going into peoples homes and he calls the cops but because they don’t find anything they think he’s just some dumb kid making prank calls. This is a legit thing that can happen.
The one complaint is that they bad guys didn’t have to be Espionage Level Bad Guys and it could have just been some Home Robbers, but it was still enjoyable to watch the mayhem occur.
I have a soft spot for 3. Don't get me wrong, I like the original and Home Alone 2 better, but 3 was funny. As you said, they didn't need secret-agents or super-spies running around as the bad guys, they could have just been your garden-variety burglars, but the story was good enough once you disregard the contrived reason that burglars are on the street.
The traps were inventive. I liked that it was legitimately a new family who just happened to let their kid stay home sick for a few hours (seriously, what kid hasn't had a day home alone because their parents have to work and the kid's gotten sick? We've all been there, we can all relate, and that's what makes 3's 'at home' arc work) while burglars are doing daring daylight robberies.
After calling the cops only to have the burglars get away and the cops start thinking the kid's making prank calls, the kid sets up a few booby traps and chaos (and hilarity) quickly ensues.
Sure, the story was better in 1 and 2, but 3 at least tried something different within the same formula. Kid's at home, robbers are breaking into places, kid sets up some booby traps that, in the real world, would get you jail-time, but in the movie, are hilarious, robbers break into booby-trap-hell and proceed to step on every metaphorical landmine in their way, cops show up at the end and take the robbers away. It's a good simple formula.
One and Two worked because Kevin's family is huge. The first time, Kevin was easily missed because one of the neighbor kids was involved early on in the chaos and got head-counted, so they left with the 'expected' number of children. The second time worked because Kevin followed the wrong person wearing a similar outfit onto the wrong plane, and in his haste, splattered the ticket lady and lost his ticket in the mess. Both movies, as a result, take a kid who is part of a huge family and put him in a situation where he's on his own.
Three worked because they're just leaving the kid home for a few hours while he's sick and both parents have to work. It just so happens that the kid got a fancy new RC car that _conveniently_ happens to be carrying a super-top-secret missile guidance chip in it, one that a bunch of people are searching for. As they go from house to house, the kid calls the cops, the cops find nothing, and as is expected, they think the kid's making prank calls. Then, after some time, the criminals come calling, and in an inspired twist, this kid _also_ is a master of booby traps, rigged his house, and catches the would-be robbers as proof that he wasn't making prank calls.
I haven't seen any of the others. The first 3 are the only three, in my opinion.
I agree wholeheartedly. I really don't get the hate that 3 gets. Though the rest I completely understand - blegh.
@@DakalaShade I loved the parrot and how chaotic he was. Bargaining for saltine crackers and "Lucy, I'm home!"
@@maxxor-overworldhero6730 Don't forget the "Double or Nothin'!" part too! I thought that was a good one also!
Home Alone 3 was not bad and it was probably better than 4 and 5 and then the infamous Disney reboot
2:50 I find the reboot joke more hypocritical than funny.
The people who make these reboots and sequels to these great Christmas classics never fully understand what made them great in the first place.
They just care about the brand recognition so they don't put that much effort to make it good because they know that people will see it
I disagree. There are a few good Christmas reboots
@@jasonvoorheescampblood Christmas Story 2 sucked. Christmas Vacation 2 sucked. Name one good one.
@@SgtSega Those are sequels Not reboots but okay.
The Grinch from 2000 starring Jim Carrey is a good Christmas reboot in my opinion
@@SgtSega and good Christmas sequels in my opinion are Home Alone 2, Santa Clause 2 & 3, Silent Night Deadly Night 2 for example
Wait wait wait... the “crooks” in the new home alone film are the good guys trying to get their stolen property back and in the process are getting beat up by an overweight brat... epic yikes. What an absolutely awful plot
@Patrick Whelpley Must have a terrible agent who has a vendetta against her :/
why add the overweight part?
@@fatbjpenn you ok buttercups?
Spot on. This reboot was soulless and depressing in every way. I didn't even crack a smile once
WHY DID YOU WATCH IT?
@@radhiadeedou8286 Gotta watch it first to see if you like it, can't know for sure until you experience it first hand.
Couldn't believe the joke about buddy digging through the panty drawer was 4 real lol
Almost everything Disney does is soulles tbh. It seems they only put any effort in their original animated films like Luca.
The MCU is fun but the movies really are the definition of a blockbuster and nothing more.
Lmfao “I didn’t even crack a smile once” gonna have to use that one myself. That is scathing!
You've managed to make me laugh 4 times quoting the original two movies.
You literally made Harry & Marv's quote, "It's Santa... & his Elf." 3 times funnier. Tim Curry saying, "Pardon me Sir, but I'm afraid your mistaken" was so geniusly placed. Uncle Frank saying, "YOU LITTLE JERK!" was fun. And the cherry on top of it was Kevin mouthing, "Keep the change ya filthy Animal." Though I suggest if you ever do another Home Alone or Christmas related video add Kevin saying things like, "...I DON'T THINK SO!", "Get off the phone and make me why don't ya.", "Don't you just love it when a kid wins against (2) idiots." and Kevin laughing after Tim Curry's lines. And you definitely missed the opportunity of using. "You're what the French call Les Incompetont!"
The biggest takeaway to this is that Kenan Thompson is aging backwards somehow
Right? Dude looks great. He spent the first like 40 years of his life looking like a healthy baby and now he just looks like a healthy regular man. Good on him managing to slim down like that.
I'm depressed he agreed to be in this mess
I've been binging 'Home Sweet Home Alone' reviews and this is the best analysis by far. This channel always delivers.
From what I got from this movie: the upper class feeling bad for those struggling but at the same time likes to poke fun at them. It’s basically the equivalent of people running charities and only gaining a few hundred bucks while spending millions to host the event
Kid watching movie: who is he dressed like?
Parent: Scarface... Tony Montana but instead of cocaine it is candy. Now watch this film and I'll show you Scarface after this.
And right there the parent made two mistakes that day
Abe: Well, it's been a long run, but I think this will kill it.
Jasper: What, Home Alone?
Abe: No, Christmas!
Doh-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho!
Simpsons characters doing a Statler and Waldorf bit?
@@Jsdo1980 yeah, it was on a Christmas episode of The Simpsons that functioned like a Halloween episode. Story 1: Bart and the Polar Express...Story 2: Marge and Martha Stewart fix up the house...Story 3: The Simpsons are all puppets.
I love this comment so much
There should be a law against remaking movies at this point...
Disney should just cease to exist. They ruin everything they touch. They’ve already ruined Star Wars and Marvel.
@@RestitutorEuropa Disney barely has any control over Marvel and the MCU. They only control the marketing.
Did anyone notice the family’s home has a sign for McCallister security in the snow? @ 09:39 Is this what Kevin is up to?
All things considered, I could buy Kevin getting in security after seeing how the Wet Bandits had his entire neighborhood in their grips.
The sign logo is the "Home Alone title card house"
Buzzs cameo felt a mixture of fan service and insulting at the same time. So this abomination is suppose to take place in the same universe as the Mccallisters and Buzz still doesn't have a good bond with Kevin?
@@Thomasmemoryscentral I never got that about Buzz. I got the feeling he and Kevin had made up, but Buzz still remembers what Kevin did. That’s just me though
Yes, Kevin owns a security company, and he pranks Buzz every year on Christmas about being home alone.
What I would’ve done for a home alone reboot would be Kevin leaving his kid alone and having new wet bandits break in, but then it’d turn out at the end that Kevin set it all up so that his kid would be able to take care of himself
I always thought it would be funny if they did a crossover with Predator. No seriously. Like Kevin's all grown up and he works at a military facility. A Preadator breaks-in and Kevin uses his wits to stop him. Sounds goofy I know, but what more can you do with both franchises lol?
Also this could be the first movie where you can say that Kevin fights a predator.
This comment wins the internet! I would pay to see this!
Or with Spider-man. Spider-man instead of Kevin, Octavius and Scorpion instead of Harry and Marv. Course... weird wordplay with "home".
Robot Chicken already did Home Alone x Halloween so why not?
It could be neat seeing Kevin as a child fighting a Predator, since it'd conflict with their refusal to hurt children. "On one hand, honour dictates I won't harm this kid, but DAMN, he just caught my foot in a mousetrap!". Maybe this would result in the two series's tones mixing well. The Predator sees it as a fun challenge, but not a violent one, so we don't have an R-rated Home Alone movie xD
@@chrishewson4283 Oooh I like that. Like a 30 minute special.
The worst part of this movie was that it didn’t come out during Christmas
The worst part that it came out at all.
Yeah wtf were they thinking
That really shouldn't be a criticism of the movie unless you were joking
@@tykamen5588 I was joking
😂😂 i’ll never know why the released it at all let alone releasing it in early November 😂
"Subverting expectations" is what writers resort to when they realize they can't do the expected thing extraordinarily better than others.
exactly, it's just an excuse to derail the story when they corner themselves.
This Brit kid looks more like its a film about Elton John as a kid.
This movie was painful and I was fucked up and couldn’t even laugh at it
I watch this because I lost a drinking game.
I could probably smoke my entire weed stash and still hate the experience of this movie
I saw this and thought 'Wow, what a horrible ripoff of the Home Alone series'... then I saw the Disney+ logo.
The franchise basically died after the third entry, so this doesn’t surprise me.
I think you mean with.
Even as a guy that liked the Third Film as a kid, this looks like shit. And at least Erick Avari was the remotely positive thing in Home Alone 4.
@@BigEOT3 my kids range in age from 2 to 16 and they watch home alone at least once a week. The refuse to watch anyone other than 1 or 2.
It died with the second. It was never meant to be more than one.
@@king_big_pp my aunt gave us the 2nd one on vhs so it was one of the few movies we had and we watched it a lot so I prefer 2 over one by a slight margin.
It's no secret that the original Home Alone has flaws, but damn it has some tight writing. Here's a list:
- Why doesn't Kevin call the police? Because he is initially delighted that his family has left due to a previous argument and he doesn't later because he thinks he's a fugitive.
- How is Kevin left behind without anyone noticing? Because the family slept in due to a power outage and there are way too many family members to account for. Sure, the Murphy kid was a bit of a contrivance, but it's not unplausible. It also doesn't help that Kevin's passport was thrown away the previous night by accident. That itself leads to the point about the airport as security was much lesser back in those days due to it being pre-9/11.
- Why doesn't Kevin call his family in Paris? Because personal cell phones weren't a thing and he probably didn't know his uncle's number due to the distance between both houses (they are in France after all and it is 1990). He is once again still elated over not having his family. I will admit though that it is a bit of a contrivance that the family doesn't call the house themselves.
- Why doesn't Kevin go to a family or friend's house? Because they're all gone for the holidays and once again, still elated about the family being gone.
Harry and Marv surviving all those traps are a bit pushing it in terms of believability, but it's safe to say that suspension of disbelief can stretch a little far in that area. This is why the movie is both timeless but could only be made and take place in the year it was made as with all the technological and security advances that have been made in the 33 years since the first film, there is no way in heck a kid is getting left home alone during the holidays. Kevin also has a reason to be mad at his family. They constantly look down on him and blame him for things that go wrong even if it isn't his fault. If my big brother screwed me over like that as well as the rest of my family all in one night, I would get pissed too. Why should people like Max? Why should people see the couple as the evil bad guys? This would be like if Harry and Marv were looking out for an orphanage of kids as the sole caretakers and the only way to support them was by burglary and Kevin was just mad at his family because why not. Also, Kevin actually talks and acts like an 8-year-old kid. Max just acts like any adult comedian writing for a kid. Disney took a beloved holiday classic and turned it into another terrible Disney Channel Sitcom movie and I'm not talking about the good ones.
And this goes a long way in showing that it’s not just woke reboots that people dislike… it’s BAD reboots.
No one except alt right conservatives have a problem with woke reboots so yeah, bad reboots only really
@@SHESTAGOOEYFROMOPIUS out all of political spectrum only alt left have 0 problems with woke reboots.
Traditional right have obvious problems.
Altright feel scammed, and a single thought of it scorches all of their souls. Each of them work hard for their money and spending it on something not meeting with their standarts is enraging.
Trad left thinks that its nothing but empty noise which do not solve nothing from real problems. Only asslicking. And taking money which could be spend more wisely. At least on better movie.
Middle folk is being the most sane out of them all and they actually see 0 fucks given plus incompetence giving result of woke reboots. Whoever made this looks like student who thinks it will pass exam by just showing up and actually doing nothing. (Which a valid strategy when opposite side gives 0 fucks too) But when people cares they wont forgive this.
Wnd im still grossly oversimplifing promblems. Real life is much more bigger nuanced than you, stranger on internet, thinks.
@@user-cs8pb5mi7n you're so fucking weird lmao
@@Sappy1738 YES, I AM. 🌠
@@SHESTAGOOEYFROMOPIUS are you serious?
You read too much buzzfeed, my dude.
You don’t have to be “alt right” to dislike tokenism.