Fun fact: In Germany this movie is called "nicht schon wieder allein zu haus" which means "not home alone again" which pretty much sums up how everyone is feeling about this movie
@@AirQuotesI think it's a result of people lately making semi-serious jokes about how Kevin is the devil who tortures criminals for his own satisfaction instead of calling the police if he's so concerned about his house and his own safety. So the movie flips who is truly insane here, maybe. And also I read somewhere that this movie might be criticizing Castle Doctrine and rich people mentality. But I think they give too much credit to this movie.
the reason this failed was because Max was too hateable and the "robbers" were to likeable. In the first two movies, Kevin was nice and only fought back if he was provoked. The robbers in the first two were also very clearly evil, which made it enjoyable to watch them get tortured by Kevin's traps. In this version, Max is a b*tch who does whatever he wants with no punishment, while the robbers are a couple who want to get a doll back because they need it since it's worth a lot of money and they're about to lose their house. They're also a lot more redeemable then Harry and Marv, which makes you feel bad for them when they go through the traps.
Yeah, also Harry and Marv were idiots who kept going back into the stinking boobey trapped house. I think the audience was yelling at them the whole time to just give it up and go home. They were also vengeful. Harry wanted to torture Kevin for all the pain he caused him, for a house he had no right to break into. In the second one they were also vengeful. They kidnapped Kevin and were going to throw him on ice to drown.
@@Royed I love that you clearly hate the channel since you're calling it trash while supposedly not having watched it, yet you still clicked on it and went to the comments. Maybe the word "trash" should be reserved for how you reference your use of free time.
Kevin wasn't nice, though. Kevin was a snotty little shit. Rightfully so, as his family basically ignored him entirely until he acted out and then came down on him. But he was an asshole, and part of his journey was learning to value his family, flaws and all, as shown through the subplot of Old Man Marley.
@@WolfHredain Kevin’s( did I spell it right I’m bad at spelling) defense he was raised by pretty bad parents he wouldn’t have been raised right and most of the time he acts up from what we seen he was being revoked or acting on emotion
Are you kidding me? The entire plot of this movie is that two people can't just knock on the door and say, "Hey kid, did you steal my doll?" They're not even villains, they're just two people who want their property back and don't know how to communicate!
Yeah instead of going to the house and saying kid can I have my doll back he decides to commit a crime by breaking into our house which if he got caught and trialled I don’t think the judge would believe him oh yeah so I had an open house and this kid came and stole my doll so I broke into his house
the thing that made this movie saddening was how realistic it is. The couple's emotions were just so realistic and the victims here were the couple, really. and the traps were just really painful to watch, especially the "house lock trap" where the husband's touches the button and there's a needle that goes inside of his finger, i cried at that part honestly. In the original/2 the robbers were actually trying to rob him, and everytime they lost they would keep trying, they even almost hurt Kevin. But in this season the couple being the victims and it was just sad knowing how it was just an misunderstanding and they were trying to get back what was there's. And in the end im pretty sure they praised max for "saving the doll" honestly the villain character is Max
I love how at one point they even refence remakes of movies saying "they are never as good as the original" and they sure lived up to that line with this movie.
Fun fact: There was a deleted scene in the original movie that had Harry talking to Marv his tragic own backstory and why he's robbing to begin with. But it was cut because they knew you would sympathize with them instead or rooting for Kevin and would make Kevin more like the villain when he causes the traps. But here, I guess they ran out of ideas and just re-used something that would've made the original not good and there was a reason WHY it wasn't in the original. I'm tired of seeing Disney use the sympathetic villain move because it's forced and boring. This was one of the worst remakes/sequels I have seen in recent years. And now Disney Plus is remaking Cheaper By the Dozen Father of the Bride again, along with 3 Men & A Baby, and Night At The Museum. It seems obvious Disney will never learn their lesson.
Disney needs to get lost, they better not ruin cheaper by the dozen, they made their own movies stupid don't touch 20th century fox studio classics!! I swear they need to open their eyes no one wants this! And the movies there remaking are still watched today, they need to stop
Sorry but Kevin was the victim in those first 2 movies. His entire family treated him like crap, the whole pizza thing was an issue because they HAD bought him cheese pizza but his a-hole brother ate it. If you look at the way his family looks and treats him you'll see it wasn't entirely his fault. Lol He also has some of the dumbest parents ever.
A lot say that Kevin is a brat and they’re pretty right but he’s 8 or so. So, cut him some slack. And while Buzz was a doof in the beginning of both HA movies he did have a good ending to both movies.
Yep. That was the 90s. Kids were taken care of but the social aspect of their lives was left to them. We still had to go to school if we were ruthlessly bullied and had to either learn to deal with it or stand up for ourselves. And while that was an absolute nightmare I can say it did make us stronger and built character. Sadly the issue with bullies now is there is no escape from them thanks to cell phones, cameras and social media. Ugh. I'm so happy I was born in 87 and got to experience a childhood that was not overran with technology but also enjoyed the golden age of the internet with AOL, MySpace and early TH-cam. I just wish we could get to a point where kids can be kids again. Where they can go outside qnd explore without people freaking out about them roaming around like a pack of wolves. And trick or treating actually begins when it's dark out and existed only in neighborhoods and not parking lots/malls. Le sigh. It's why I wanna move out to the country anymore. That way I can.let my son go play outside and not have to worry he was hit by a car or that I will have the police visiting because he is in the fenced in backyard by himself. Same wirh parents. They need time to be themselves and away from their kids. Now you are supposed to be amazing at work and also a paranoid helicopter parent that should be giving their child non-stop attention while also being a playmate to them. It's insane.
@@dorianalexander2730 hey person born here in 91, married to a person born in 90. If your parent wasn't a helicopter parent, that's because they were naive and never went through any real stuff. My parents were super old school parents, we had to do chores, couldn't hang out with people unless they met their parents, and the only way we got to play outside is if all the neighbors were hanging outside too. We were not actually raised by religious people, but we did ended up living next to our parents family friends. And as far as kids being kids again. There are tons of stories everywhere about how kids got murdered, tortured, overworked (before they were basic labor laws preventing that), and just went missing/we're never seen again a hundred years back. We just have Amber alert systems and everything now to be a constant reminder of the fact that if you're having kids then you're selfish or naive. Because this is not and never has been a world for children. If you're a kid you have no rights, you make no decisions for yourself, you have no experience-(which everyone either uses to manipulate or belittle you), you have no freedom, you get what you get as far as quality of parents/family/school systems/living situations/religions, everybody wants to either put you down to make themselves feel better -OR to do some horrible illegal stuff to you, because the trauma will shut off the language center in your developing brain, and they will most likely get away with horrible things that will negatively affect the rest of your life. People wonder why kids bully other kids, it's because those kids who get bullied and those kids who become bullies / none of them have it easy. Parents don't know how to freaking deal with it either, it's a mess that they made because they were made to be messes too. Being a kid sucks, being a kid is overrated, being adult is so much better. And if you say otherwise, then it's most likely that you were either extremely privileged or extremely forgetful. There is no such thing as a kid being getting to be a kid. Unless they're dead so they don't know what real living feels like. Real living is getting to make your own decisions. Really living means surviving long enough to be an adult. Though if you're really messed up as a kid, and if you're really not born in the right conditions.... Then you're definitely handicapped as an adult. So yeah, next time you hear an Amber alert I hope you think of this, and your lack of knowledge in history for people, balming everything on "now a days" because of some privilege you have. Or it's worse, you're not privileged, you just lack critical thinking, and because you heard ignorance enough, been to enough adults pity parties, you think now it's worse than when you were a kid.
@@ZecVal Probably meant "Phoned in", as in the actors put the least amount of effort into their performances since they were getting the paycheck either way.
One of the things I love about your videos, is you'll have moments I see coming like the parental lock on your moms computer joke. But the way you'll do it, and the narrations you use are always perfect.
„Oh no! She got shark strength!“ I swear this was the line that both send me flying but also just proved me that Kids shows and movies just have the most terrible acting and voice lines ever…
Making the victims nice and the protagonist was a horrible move. I didn't even finish the movie because it was setup up so poorly. I forgave the dumbness of the others because watching bad guys get roughed up was dumb fun. But having it happen to nice people sucks the joy out of it.
Not even sure why they thought not Kevin stole it anyway. He kept on looking at the dude like he was a creepy weirdo for having dolls in the first place.
Everyone hates how they made the burgerlers sympathetic but why is no one talking about how max is just the absolute worst to his family when there just a standard family. I mean his mom is literally just on a phone call and he's yelling at her and then is frustrated that he won't drop everything to talk to him.
Yeah, plus she's on the phone so that she can be in the same plane as her kids. It's not like she's ignoring him to gossip with her friends or some bs that would be understandably frustrating
Ya and I’m the og home alone movies we understand Kevin wants attention and is being treated badly mostly cause the parients have so many people to take care of but in this case max treats his family horrible
@@Colelover117 so this max kid is a absolute dipshit and is a number one a-hole? Because in the first two movies, Kevin is completely opposite to this kid,(except that he is a brat too) But still feels kinda lonely, but from what I saw in this movie's clips, this kid is the worst child ever. And no hate to the child actor though.
I think there are 3 things that really gripe me about this movie and makes it weird 1. You feel sympathy for the 2 burglars then for the kid protecting his house 2. That they get Buzz back for this movie for a Cameo (in a year full of cameos) and mention Kevin as well making it in the same universe (and then the likes if his character feels odd now cause of his charges and turning himself in to the police in real life after this movie came out) 3. The mom of the kid is an Irish Comedian but I have no clue why they make her do some weird American/ British accent (this is a little nitpick of my own)
You know something isn't right when you're rooting for the "bad guys" Kevin was a charismatic and clever lead. You want him to win. The Wet Bandits were clearly bad people. They just stole from people and flooded their homes to add insult to injury. Max isn't charismatic at all. He's a nasty kid. He decides to steal from the guy because he didn't share soda with him. The guy doesn't owe him anything. Yet Max is so entitled he feels the need to steal from him to express his displeasure. (Yes, he only stole the soda, but the point stands). Meanwhile the bandits were just people who wanted their property returned to them, and they needed it quickly since they were about to lose their house. That leaves you with an unlikable kid and sympathetic bandits.
2:20 to translate for this guy basically he said "i don't trust computers to more virtual data from one server to another without making a mistake and corrupting said data"
@@El-de6nj It was, they literally went to the creator and asked can we make an intentionally bad home alone reboot, the creator responded how so, they said by making the robbers the good guys and the kid the bad guy, the creator said something along the lines of you know what go ahead.
3:41 That “protected by Mccallister home security” sign made me think how hilarious it would have been to see the traps integrated from the first movie into a home security system that Kevin apparently runs. Like if someone just opened the door without putting in the alarm code would they get shot with a BB gun or something?
This movie makes you hate the kid and feel bad for the burglars, which is the complete opposite of how the premise of a Home Alone movie is supposed to be
Fun continuity: - Kevin grew up to make his own security company - Max’s house has a McCalistor security system - Buzz became a cop - Kevin calls the police department every year to play a prank on Buzz, saying a kid was left home alone - so this is why the cops never come to help Max. Buzz tells the department that it’s just some prank his brother is playing
Only makes you wish they made a film about Kevin as an adult instead. Maybe make him the villain too like some people wanted a John Wick style movie with him saving his kids or something lol
This was honestly the best part of the movie for me, the Easter eggs to the original. I can’t decide if the worst part was making the “home invaders” the main characters and good people who were being stupid, or the fact that the nephew was shown being a klepto half way in, so we knew that he had the doll, not Max, making the whole second half of the film even more ridiculous because if they hadn’t jumped to conclusions and just told their family what they were looking for, nothing would have even happened with Max!
yeah og kevin actually had some problems with his family but this one is just mad because his mom and dad are planning a hectic trip in the middle of a pandemic and are busy
You realise that the charisma of the wet bandits contributed so much to how well it was received. Being cartoon villains and them being so energetic/comical even when falling for the most random traps
Moral of the story. Don’t make the punching bag “villain” characters relatable and and completely in the right. Also, don’t be the exec doing the “hello fellow youths” meme all movie
You know? I never cared about any home alone movie but this movie reminded me of something that is kind of like the Tom and Jerry formula, basically, there's a character that is trying to somehow get/catch/thwart another character, but as they try to do so they end up getting hurt in many comical ways. The point is, the key factor anyone who's attempting to create this kind of formula should always have present as their main priority when writing the sequence is that YOU DON'T HAVE TO MAKE THE AUDIENCE CARE OR ROOT FOR THE ONE GETTING HURT, on the contrary, YOU MUST WANT TO HAVE THE AUDIENCE HOPE FOR THAT PERSON'S FAILURE. Tho most common plot is that the character getting hurt is usually trying to eat the other character, like Tom and Jerry, Road Runner and Sylvester. So yeah, the people who made these movies aren't good writers
There were only two good home alone movies! They should do another one, but with the original cast. Like Buzz, Kevin and all the other kids (I know there were loads), have their own kids and the parents of the old movie are now grandparents or whatever. The fact that they were so good was the fact that the people who wanted to break in were criminals and the kid had to defend the house, and himself.
Home Alone 3 is actually a bit of a hidden gem in the sequels. I'd recommend giving it a shot. It's a different kid and different family, but the kid actually calls the police multiple times, and only takes matters into his own hands when he gets accused of lying to the police. Twice. And honestly, the villains themselves are really cool. It's not just some duo of robbers who are just a pair of cartoon idiots, it's a team of four international criminals, bringing the stakes up hilariously high. It's by no means as good as the original, at least when it comes to the big emotional mother-son moment at the end, but it's a far cry above the fourth and beyond. Plus, Scarlett Johansson is in it when she was like, what, 15? Always fun seeing a fetus version of a Hollywood favorite.
Yeah home alone 3 doesnt deserve the bad rep it gets. It has a different kid and almost a different plot and also a wholesome storyline with the old neighbour lady. I loved it as a kid, along with the originals.
@@coolhellu I liked how the old lady said “I was there when Hoover was president” lol. The reason fans gave it bad rep was because home alone 1 and 2 set their expectations really high.
15:12 I never realized how messed up that exchange is. Kevin declares his belief that *everyone* in the family hates him. His mother's response is to drop a one-liner in his face and only acts concerned when Kevin declares he would never want to see her again. Not even an attempt to console her child or give him some perspective. That kinda crap fosters bitterness kids will carry well into adulthood.
yeah alex was being harsh on kevin. he was just an angry kid who said things he didnt mean cuz his family treats him badly. None of the adults were thinking about how that affected him.
You can see John Hughes’ Catholic upbringing shining through in scenes like that and the scene where Kevin crosses himself before praying while having a slice of pizza. Do you think Jews cornered the market on guilt?
I feel bad for this kid imagine getting a huge break in a movie a classic at that but then you realize nobody wanted a remake and no matter if you were a A grade actor nobody’s gonna like you he’s not gonna get any calls back.
This was a sucky movie to appear in, but he was also in movies like Jojo rabbit, and did fine there, so this isn’t his only acting credit. Course it’s debatable any kid would willingly want to join so many acting projects if their parents didn’t always call the shots
I think people forget that a lot of directors understand that the quality of movies and TV shows is not always consistent with the quality of the actors. You can tell that this movie sucks because of the writing and not because of the actors, they’re just doing their job.
They should have done a sequel to the original movies with Kevin as a grownup having to defend his own house, yet this time he's actually able to create cool traps with robots or something since he's been studying shit in college or whatever. Edit: I would definitely be making this a requel to the third movie, the movies past that do not exist, and Kevin meets up with the kid from the third movie. They're both adults and soon become best friends, talking about all the crazy shit they did back when they were kids until eventually a terrorist group is discovered to be lurking around in New York, and the thing is, they're a rival group to the original third movie's terrorists, so now Kevin and his new best friend must defend themselves home alone for the holidays. Kevin would be using his knowledge of robotics from back in college to create traps that use sensors, lasers, and more while his friend helps him.
Pitch idea for a new Home Alone movie: a single dad sends his kids off to summer camp and then must defend his house from a gang of 8-year old buglers trying to steal all his candy.
Instead of it being the POV of the kids breaking into an abandoned house like in horror movies, it can be from the POV of a squatter. They're trying to hide, afraid that these kids might hurt them or call the cops but the kids are determined to find them so they must protect themselves. A mix of Home Alone & Don't Breath lol.
Imagine hiring someone who's only specialty is migrating a MySQL database. Also, why the hell would they go to TOKYO of all places for Christmas? What are they going to do? Eat some KFC and stay in a hotel? Christmas is like valentine's day here, except with more KFC. Sure, there are lights, but it's not at all the same. Also, if they are financially struggling, a family trip to Tokyo seems really stupid.
This movie is a big insult to the original Home Alone you can’t even compare the two. There is no way on this earth that anybody can actually like this movie
Max said he has to share one toilet with nine rotten cousins, but he lives in a freaking mansion with three levels on it. There has to be at least four or five bathrooms in that house. The whole family is spoiled rotten and a family who can own that house, a BMW and buy all of their groceries in bulk should have more than one bathroom in the house.
One thing I never noticed in the promos. I actually thought this was like HA4 where the MC was also rich I think? But Kevin's family always had the underlying assertions the family was rich since the trip was on Peter's dime. A flight for 15 to Paris with him, his wife, brother and wife flying first class. A fairly decent house. Just flinging cash for pizza for 15. I think they just took these assertions and ran with it in the movie. The McAllister's house is not the same as 3 tiered mansion that looks like its not next to another house in terms of yard acreage.
@@Monty2289 correction, in HA 1 Pete's brother was paying for the entire family vacation for his new job in Paris, they were going for free. Plus he got pissed at Kevin for spending nearly $1,000 on room service in HA 2, so he can't be filthy rich
In defense of Kevin (I hated typing that), hes not wrong in the beginning. Sure, hes a jerk, but either his family didn't get him a plain cheese pizza (which isn't something to not get, as he could be allergic to some stuff), or Buzz actually ate a whole plain cheese pizza so Kevin couldn't eat. Which makes it understandable that Kevin pushed buzz, you would too dont lie.
And Kevin is annoying to the CHARACTERS in the movie NOT the audience that's how you make a proper annoying kid character while Max 🙄 is annoying to the characters and the audience and is not well written with his family at all we barley see them together and how they function and love each other and fight unlike the original home alone
@@Chosen_Cartoons Agreed- besides, horrible kids done right are HILARIOUS in movies which is exactly what Home Alone 1 got right lol. He's so expressive and funny and creative and horrible which is extremely entertaining to watch. "We have this tiny human look at him go". It's great. Much better than kids being good in movies and doing it poorly (I'm looking at you Charlie and the Chocolate factory newer version). Kevin was fun for us to watch when we were kids because "wow that's so cool" and he's hilarious when we watch it as adults because he's absurd.
Kevin is the way he was because other people in his family did things to him and his parents didn't care. Buzz ate his Pizza just to be a jerk and they got on to Kevin when he got pissed instead of getting on to Buzz for eating Kevins Pizza. Just like in Part 2 when Buzz messed with Kevin when they were singing and Kevin fought back but Kevin got in trouble instead of Buzz who was messing with Kevin yet again
You went surprisingly easy on this movie. Max is WAY worse than Kevin. He doesn't want to spend ONE NIGHT with his cousins in his gigantic castle of a home for...reasons. The entire premise is a mess because it's legitimately fucked up seeing this family TRYING TO GET THEIR PROPERTY BACK and be tormented like this lol
@@yikesgina but in this movie its just: "Hey mom!" "Max I'm on the phone" "Me hate family now" The Kevin and his family did have some conflict, concerning that they hate him and he being a little brat ( it's fine because he's 8), but he did regret his decision to wish everyone away, showing that he still loves his family (even if they are jerks). BUT in this movie..... nothing
He did say “I can’t wait to go home and share one toilet with 9 blooming cousins”. I’m not sure if that castle somehow only has 1 bathroom or if for some reason he and 9 cousins all have to share the same one. Maybe he meant they’d all be sharing one in Tokyo. But It’d be a pretty undesirable bathroom situation either way.
I'd say Kevin is more territorial. After all, he's an eight-year-old kid defending himself from two dangerous criminals. You're right about Max though. That church scene where he thinks himself a child in need. I could punch him.
Max is the worst kind of character. I can't even remember a time where I didn't know to not interrupt someone who is clearly on the phone. I remember knowing to hang out until my parent were done or caught a break. They want to portray his utter lack of respect as cheeky and charming, but it just makes him look like a spoiled brat.
@@AcesMaven The difference is in HA's Phone Scene, Kevin is legit ignored and neglected. In his first appearance he out right says that Uncle Frank and the big kids can watch the movie but he can't and that "why can't I?" but Kate doesn't care. Honestly, Kevin was really mistreated, even when he was being a brat like some reviewers say so it's no wonder why he's still sympathetic and viewers root for him. Max is just selfish, spoiled kid with no redeeming traits, he hates and insults his family long before we even see them!
I appreciate they changed the plot up a bit, all the other home alones were the same. It had some funny moments and when they said “remakes are never as good as the classics” lol
@@gemil9933 they changed the home invasion plot but almost every scene was taking from 1 or 2 but just with different lines and maybe different placement. Him trying to get his mom's attention was similar to the original.
Honestly they should’ve leaned into a dark comedy where the kid is explicitly the villain and does everything completely maliciously and there is no element of self defense. It’s almost like a Christmas-themed Saw movie where the enemy is a kid
Yeah I found him quite sympathetic. He’s left out of the family movie time, he’s been called incompetent by most of his family, and his favourite pizza is taken. His actions with his family are reactionary. Max is just rude from the start and you don’t have sympathy for him
Kevin is both spoiled and helpless at the start of the film, neither of which is his fault. He's sympathetic but also has a lot of growing to do, which is delivered by the end of the film.
"I'm not ugly, my mom says that I have character." Honestly the best moment. He genuinely felt sad delivering that line. Shame that the rest of the acting is sad for a completely different reason.
In the original some of the kids spoke French and no English. I thought that was weird, even if their did live in France, they were staying with American relatives who never spoke French in the film.
Some of the other kids did. American dad, British mum, lived in UK from wedding until fairly recently so all kids grew up there, and I’m thinking too much about a Disney+ movie.
Dude if you think this is bad, you should watch the Peacock original movie “Alone for Christmas.” It’s basically Home Alone but the kid is replaced by a dog. Also, that was Erin, not Pam.
I don't really understand why they tried to make the antagonists that likeable and redeemable. A big reason people love home alone is because of the fun traps Kevin does and seeing the robbers getting punished in funny ways.... Doesn't really work when the people getting abused are people trying to just get a doll back.
Max is the antagonist. People are projecting the concept of the original on this one. Max is the antagonist and the couple are the protagonists. it's honestly a more than ok movie if you let it be the twist on the genre it's trying to be. everyone is judging it by the standards of the original, not realizing that they explicitly switched the positions this time around
It's actually rather interesting, there's apparently a deleted scene in the first Home Alone where Harry actually admits why he doesn't like Christmas. I can't remember what the reason was, but the reason it got deleted was because it humanized Harry in a way, and I think that was the right call.
Jeff sees online that the doll sells for $200,000 ... you're telling me they paid off their entire mortgage, funded a trip to Europe, and paid for all of the repairs & renovations for Max's mansion house, bought stuff for their kids and also had money to spare? Do the writers not realize that $200,000 doesn't stretch that far? They could've had the doll be worth $2,000,000 instead.
My dad has dark hair and dark eyes and my mom has red hair and brown eyes. Both of my grandfathers have blonde hair and blue green eyes. Red headed people also tend yo have prominently blonde children. Fun genetic facts.
I heard in highschool that anyone can be born a red head, apparently everyone has the ginger gene lol. I had a friend who's parents where both black hair brown eyes lol .
@AntiCringe it isn't how genes work but it could happen depending on the family member/members before them which if you've ever looked at a punnett square you can see that depending on the genes it's actually possible
@AntiCringe who mentioned recessive genes? I think you have your alleles in a twist or dont have a clue how genes work..... What the OP said is perfectly valid, merely replying with a random statement about recessive genes, without context, never helps.
I cant believe that after getting the full rights Disney makes this film look cheaper than a 1990 movie filmed on a house. Man, that house felt like Old Money Chicago Christmas, which is awesome when seen by someone who lives in the tropics. The new house just looks like boring currentness.
The original movie was already...dicey...(Home Alone 3, though definitely not the "best" of them, is definitely the most "morally solid"), so why did they try to make them sympathetic...? Honestly? Mis-positioned cast members. Ellie Kemper and Rob Delaney as morally irredeemable heels was NEVER going to work. Swap Aisling Bea and Tim Simons (how is "The Guy Who Played Jonah Ryan" in a Home Alone movie and NOT one of the villains?) (now the thieves) with Rob Delaney and Ellie Kemper (now the successful married couple that the thieves resent) and you're MOST of the way there to fixing the movie.
Right! Like they always wanna have an excuse for bad and evil behavior. Makes me think that they’re doing this for themselves. That they wanna have sympathy for theme selves idk
14:40 "greenscreens look so bad" how do you tell its in a greenscreen looks exactly the same to me to any other movie out of focus background? lighting? I didn't see any disappearing hair, artifacting, weird reflections, or fuzzy outlines
"The new home alone movie is worse than you could possibly imagine" well, I can imagine a lot of bad stuff, and I've gone through watching a lot of crap, but that movie just reached a new level of disappointing garbage
Are we not gonna discuss how Jeff could memorise the full names of two people said once a few days ago, but he couldn’t remember from yesterday that, said multiple times, the alarm code was “1112”?
Because people tend to remember different things? It might seem odd for some people that others can't remember something "so simple", but the thing is.. it might not be as simple for them as it is for others. Just saying. It's less odd than you think.
@@ankaplanka the thing is that when he heard the names he couldn't care less so it would make sens for him to forget it, but he realized early on that the number was important
The premise of the intruders being good guys and the kid being the villain could have worked for a horror film, but it's insane to expect people to laugh at sympathetic characters being mauled.
They made the criminals into developed characters, probably just my biggest problem. The other criminals were just bad people, so you could disconnect from what happened to them. This is just sad because they’re doing it for a good cause.
Yeah I have no idea why they did this. People love seeing the traps Kevin did because we are supposed to know the burglars are bad people. Doesn't work when we've grown to understand their motives and those motives are kind of justified.
This movie kind of embodies the problem that a lot of these modern reboots have, which is that they clearly couldn't decide if the movie was intended to be for a new audience, or if it's meant for fans of the original. So by trying to appeal to both of those demographics, they just end up not appealing to either of them
When you did the compilation of Marv and Harry getting foiled by the traps. THANK YOU for not showing the nail scene. Actually the most traumatizing thing I've ever seen in cinema
I'll give the movie this much: they actually got Devin Raytray to reprise his role as Buzz from the original movies. That's probably the best thing about this movie.
Which is a shame because the kid actually has acting chops, playing the mc in Jojo Rabbit. But an actor's usually only as good as their script & direction
I think the biggest downfall of the movie was how unimportant the family conflict seemed, the original fight between Max and his mother was completely forced and unnatural, I didn't even realize it was a fight until after the scene. Unlike the original movie where I actually felt like Kevin didn't want to see his family again I always felt like Max and his family never had the "falling out" they needed for the movie to really work.
In retrospect, some of the sequels weren't that bad story-wise, they just lacked the budget and the character (charm) of the first two films. But at least they weren't this.
i watched the first two around maybe 5 years old when i was 8, me and my sister were gonna binge watch all the movies but i quit after the first 5 minutes of the third movie cause i didnt like how they changed the main character actor
@@serenabrowne2427 At least it was a different character. _Home Alone 4_ they're called Kevin McCallister, Buzz, Kate, Harry, Marv, etc. but they're ALL RECAST. And it breaks canon in more ways than one.
Would’ve loved an interaction where the parents say to Buzz “We accidentally left him here while we went to Tokyo” and he’s like “Say no more, I’m experienced with this sort of thing”
Now I am starting to think that this was a sacrificial work that exists for no other reason than to give work to Devin Ratray. Literally, everything else in the film was built around that one scene. It’s like trying to build a shirt around a button.
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Fun fact: In Germany this movie is called "nicht schon wieder allein zu haus" which means "not home alone again" which pretty much sums up how everyone is feeling about this movie
Home alone is called 'mom i missed the plane' in French 😅 the way you get spoiled before even having a chance to watch the movie 😂
Lmaooo
Alien zoo house lol sorry
Speaking of Germany the actor who plays max also plays Yorkie in jojo rabbit
@@lunastoonas7101 I thought I recognized him
There was absolutely no need for this movie to exist. No. Need.
Indeed, apart from the inevitable allure of money, naturally!
There was no need for anything after 2
of course there is, the executives need to fatten up their wallets 🤑
Yup
@@darth-severus facts
Honestly this movies biggest sin is giving the criminals a reason to go into the house other than to just rob the house
The most unrealistic thing about this movie is that they were able to stretch that $200,000 so far.
Right why do they need a sympathetic back story. And why did they make the kid unlikeable. Who ever wrote this clearly hates this franchise
the actual biggest sin is the fact this movie exists
@@AirQuotesI think it's a result of people lately making semi-serious jokes about how Kevin is the devil who tortures criminals for his own satisfaction instead of calling the police if he's so concerned about his house and his own safety. So the movie flips who is truly insane here, maybe.
And also I read somewhere that this movie might be criticizing Castle Doctrine and rich people mentality. But I think they give too much credit to this movie.
@@please_im_a_staaar Kevin already was kind of insane. He got bullied by everyone tho.
the reason this failed was because Max was too hateable and the "robbers" were to likeable. In the first two movies, Kevin was nice and only fought back if he was provoked. The robbers in the first two were also very clearly evil, which made it enjoyable to watch them get tortured by Kevin's traps. In this version, Max is a b*tch who does whatever he wants with no punishment, while the robbers are a couple who want to get a doll back because they need it since it's worth a lot of money and they're about to lose their house. They're also a lot more redeemable then Harry and Marv, which makes you feel bad for them when they go through the traps.
Yeah, also Harry and Marv were idiots who kept going back into the stinking boobey trapped house. I think the audience was yelling at them the whole time to just give it up and go home. They were also vengeful. Harry wanted to torture Kevin for all the pain he caused him, for a house he had no right to break into. In the second one they were also vengeful. They kidnapped Kevin and were going to throw him on ice to drown.
Thank you for saving me from this trash videos explanation.
@@Royed I love that you clearly hate the channel since you're calling it trash while supposedly not having watched it, yet you still clicked on it and went to the comments. Maybe the word "trash" should be reserved for how you reference your use of free time.
Kevin wasn't nice, though. Kevin was a snotty little shit. Rightfully so, as his family basically ignored him entirely until he acted out and then came down on him. But he was an asshole, and part of his journey was learning to value his family, flaws and all, as shown through the subplot of Old Man Marley.
@@WolfHredain Kevin’s( did I spell it right I’m bad at spelling) defense he was raised by pretty bad parents he wouldn’t have been raised right and most of the time he acts up from what we seen he was being revoked or acting on emotion
This is the movie that no-one asked for. They will never ever ever touch the OG home alone with Maculey Culken
tf you mean touch? they will never breath near the OG home alone
we had Home alone 1 and 2
Don’t you mean Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin?
At least we got Kieran Culkin and Succession
amen
Are you kidding me? The entire plot of this movie is that two people can't just knock on the door and say, "Hey kid, did you steal my doll?" They're not even villains, they're just two people who want their property back and don't know how to communicate!
Maybe that's why he sucks at his job, and is not like the wife is smarter than a potato
@@TheLakabanzaichrg right? Miss girl doesn't even know "smart" words💀
They're stupid people with a big, fancy house....
Yeah instead of going to the house and saying kid can I have my doll back he decides to commit a crime by breaking into our house which if he got caught and trialled I don’t think the judge would believe him oh yeah so I had an open house and this kid came and stole my doll so I broke into his house
The old home alone movies made sense! Not this one
It’s not as if “this generation” needs a remake of home alone. Literally everyone has seen it.
for real, next I bet they’ll remake Harry Potter as if it wasn’t one of the most popular franchises
@@flowersforyouu Nah, that one is getting a sequel.
What about gen alpha they probably have not seen it
@@rift8661 we’ll show it to them. No more of this half thrown together new crap
@@rift8661 do you really think millenial/gen Z parents will CHOOSE to play this instead of the original?
the thing that made this movie saddening was how realistic it is. The couple's emotions were just so realistic and the victims here were the couple, really.
and the traps were just really painful to watch, especially the "house lock trap" where the husband's touches the button and there's a needle that goes inside of his finger, i cried at that part honestly.
In the original/2 the robbers were actually trying to rob him, and everytime they lost they would keep trying, they even almost hurt Kevin.
But in this season the couple being the victims and it was just sad knowing how it was just an misunderstanding and they were trying to get back what was there's.
And in the end im pretty sure they praised max for "saving the doll"
honestly the villain character is Max
I love how at one point they even refence remakes of movies saying "they are never as good as the original" and they sure lived up to that line with this movie.
Honestly I think that was intentional, it's too good not to be
My dad said the same thing when we were watching it lol
@@nightwatch3889 duh
Just like that one transformer’s movie that had that old guy mention that too
I thought the same exact thing when that line came up smh lol
Fun fact: There was a deleted scene in the original movie that had Harry talking to Marv his tragic own backstory and why he's robbing to begin with. But it was cut because they knew you would sympathize with them instead or rooting for Kevin and would make Kevin more like the villain when he causes the traps.
But here, I guess they ran out of ideas and just re-used something that would've made the original not good and there was a reason WHY it wasn't in the original. I'm tired of seeing Disney use the sympathetic villain move because it's forced and boring. This was one of the worst remakes/sequels I have seen in recent years. And now Disney Plus is remaking Cheaper By the Dozen Father of the Bride again, along with 3 Men & A Baby, and Night At The Museum. It seems obvious Disney will never learn their lesson.
They need to not touch cheaper by the dozen, that's a classic.
Disney needs to get lost, they better not ruin cheaper by the dozen, they made their own movies stupid don't touch 20th century fox studio classics!!
I swear they need to open their eyes no one wants this! And the movies there remaking are still watched today, they need to stop
Fun fact: Cheaper by the dozen and Father of the Bride are already remakes of remakes. Disney is being redundant at this point.
Everyone knows they have been since they started making these remakes
The sad thing is Disney fans will defend every little turd they squeeze out.
Nothing can or has ever come close to the first Home Alone.
Precisely, they're just trying to milk more money out of it!
Home Alone 2?
@@junglezone7323 It’s good but the original is better
My girlfriend prefers the sequel
Honestly I enjoyed the 3 way more then I thought… it’s just a nice little thing for kid nerds!
‘Jam and Peff… am I dying?’ 😂 I haven’t laughed that hard in a while.
Loll same
Home Alone 7: The kid breaks into the robber’s house
I would watch that
Tbh that would be hilarious
That's not fair, this _could_ work
You know this will happen
Home Alone 8: The kid bombs Cuba
Sorry but Kevin was the victim in those first 2 movies. His entire family treated him like crap, the whole pizza thing was an issue because they HAD bought him cheese pizza but his a-hole brother ate it. If you look at the way his family looks and treats him you'll see it wasn't entirely his fault. Lol He also has some of the dumbest parents ever.
A lot say that Kevin is a brat and they’re pretty right but he’s 8 or so. So, cut him some slack. And while Buzz was a doof in the beginning of both HA movies he did have a good ending to both movies.
Don't forget that when Fuller has Pepsi, he always wets the bed.
Yep. That was the 90s. Kids were taken care of but the social aspect of their lives was left to them. We still had to go to school if we were ruthlessly bullied and had to either learn to deal with it or stand up for ourselves. And while that was an absolute nightmare I can say it did make us stronger and built character. Sadly the issue with bullies now is there is no escape from them thanks to cell phones, cameras and social media. Ugh. I'm so happy I was born in 87 and got to experience a childhood that was not overran with technology but also enjoyed the golden age of the internet with AOL, MySpace and early TH-cam. I just wish we could get to a point where kids can be kids again. Where they can go outside qnd explore without people freaking out about them roaming around like a pack of wolves. And trick or treating actually begins when it's dark out and existed only in neighborhoods and not parking lots/malls. Le sigh. It's why I wanna move out to the country anymore. That way I can.let my son go play outside and not have to worry he was hit by a car or that I will have the police visiting because he is in the fenced in backyard by himself. Same wirh parents. They need time to be themselves and away from their kids. Now you are supposed to be amazing at work and also a paranoid helicopter parent that should be giving their child non-stop attention while also being a playmate to them. It's insane.
@@dorianalexander2730 Mucho texto
@@dorianalexander2730 hey person born here in 91, married to a person born in 90. If your parent wasn't a helicopter parent, that's because they were naive and never went through any real stuff.
My parents were super old school parents, we had to do chores, couldn't hang out with people unless they met their parents, and the only way we got to play outside is if all the neighbors were hanging outside too. We were not actually raised by religious people, but we did ended up living next to our parents family friends.
And as far as kids being kids again. There are tons of stories everywhere about how kids got murdered, tortured, overworked (before they were basic labor laws preventing that), and just went missing/we're never seen again a hundred years back.
We just have Amber alert systems and everything now to be a constant reminder of the fact that if you're having kids then you're selfish or naive. Because this is not and never has been a world for children. If you're a kid you have no rights, you make no decisions for yourself, you have no experience-(which everyone either uses to manipulate or belittle you), you have no freedom, you get what you get as far as quality of parents/family/school systems/living situations/religions, everybody wants to either put you down to make themselves feel better -OR to do some horrible illegal stuff to you, because the trauma will shut off the language center in your developing brain, and they will most likely get away with horrible things that will negatively affect the rest of your life. People wonder why kids bully other kids, it's because those kids who get bullied and those kids who become bullies / none of them have it easy. Parents don't know how to freaking deal with it either, it's a mess that they made because they were made to be messes too.
Being a kid sucks, being a kid is overrated, being adult is so much better. And if you say otherwise, then it's most likely that you were either extremely privileged or extremely forgetful.
There is no such thing as a kid being getting to be a kid.
Unless they're dead so they don't know what real living feels like.
Real living is getting to make your own decisions. Really living means surviving long enough to be an adult. Though if you're really messed up as a kid, and if you're really not born in the right conditions.... Then you're definitely handicapped as an adult. So yeah, next time you hear an Amber alert I hope you think of this, and your lack of knowledge in history for people, balming everything on "now a days" because of some privilege you have. Or it's worse, you're not privileged, you just lack critical thinking, and because you heard ignorance enough, been to enough adults pity parties, you think now it's worse than when you were a kid.
“She’s got shark strength D,:” is such a funny fucking line that it has to be a wink to the audience about how phones in the movie is.
Hey did autocorrect get you? "How phones in the movie is." ? Did you mean phony?
@@ZecVal
Probably meant "Phoned in", as in the actors put the least amount of effort into their performances since they were getting the paycheck either way.
@@wakkaseta8351 ah yes that also makes sense. Thank you
One of the things I love about your videos, is you'll have moments I see coming like the parental lock on your moms computer joke. But the way you'll do it, and the narrations you use are always perfect.
And the animations, those are good too.
„Oh no! She got shark strength!“ I swear this was the line that both send me flying but also just proved me that Kids shows and movies just have the most terrible acting and voice lines ever…
@@jasmine-------------1235 wtf
To this day I’m still laughing at the line and trying to figure out who in their right mind actually says that. Wtf is shark strength 🤣?
@@reannagordon LOL same
Most of the crap fed to kids today are just shit, the bad acting isn’t even the main problem XD
Bruh have you actually seen good kids movies
"Oh no! She's got shark strength!" is not something I ever expected to hear.
Right🤣 I was like “wha-“ ?
That sentence was said the first time in the history of English in that movie
🤣🤣
That movie was so cringe😂
Making the victims nice and the protagonist was a horrible move.
I didn't even finish the movie because it was setup up so poorly. I forgave the dumbness of the others because watching bad guys get roughed up was dumb fun. But having it happen to nice people sucks the joy out of it.
Why were you watching it at all? Why do people encourage studios to make these horrible movies then complain about them?
@@radhiadeedou8286 Cuz I like home alone and not every remake is awful.
The remake of Jungle book was amazing.
I tried. I tried to give it a chance. But the last 3/4 of it was just me waiting for it to end
It seems to be a movie troupe these days to make the bad guys sympathetic and most of the time it doesn't work.
Having it happen to “nice” people was even funnier and
*“How do you get a castle in this economy??”*
Me: “And how do you have only *one* bathroom??”
I’ve definitely been to houses with only one to be fair
The original Home alone has so much heart, makes parents feel things. This feels like a cheap knockoff.
Home alone. But the wish app.
That's because it is a cheap knockoff
It is what it is. They really dont know how else to capitalize on nostalgia anymore
@Juragan Mudawhy
Y'know the worst part of this movie?
This could've been resolved with one conversation with Mom that her son stole the doll.
Not even sure why they thought not Kevin stole it anyway. He kept on looking at the dude like he was a creepy weirdo for having dolls in the first place.
We need kevin as an elder defending his home against youngsters. We could even get the original actor.
Damn kids! Get off my lawn!
Love the idea!
OMG, yes!
Nah he doesn't need the money so shouldn't debase himself.
preferably on a halloween night
“Jam and Peff? JAM and PEFF??? AM I DYING????” 😂😂😂😂 Oh my goodness, I almost fell out of my chair laughing.
Funny thing is she is from the office and Jim and Pam were one of the characters i wonder if it was a joke lol
When will these companies learn that milking a franchise to death will eventually tarnish and destroy a franchise’s legacy.
I wish they learned.
every comment section. EVERY COMMENT SECTION
Indeed, they only care about making money out of a thirty year old movie franchise!
Take my money
@@syastar not every, he’s only on mainstream TH-camrs channels. I rarely see his comments
"Jam and Peff?! Am I dying?!" KILLED ME
killed alex too aparently 🤣
Everyone hates how they made the burgerlers sympathetic but why is no one talking about how max is just the absolute worst to his family when there just a standard family. I mean his mom is literally just on a phone call and he's yelling at her and then is frustrated that he won't drop everything to talk to him.
Yeah, plus she's on the phone so that she can be in the same plane as her kids. It's not like she's ignoring him to gossip with her friends or some bs that would be understandably frustrating
I mean you would do the same if you entire family fucking ignores you it just alone
Ya and I’m the og home alone movies we understand Kevin wants attention and is being treated badly mostly cause the parients have so many people to take care of but in this case max treats his family horrible
@@Colelover117 so this max kid is a absolute dipshit and is a number one a-hole? Because in the first two movies, Kevin is completely opposite to this kid,(except that he is a brat too)
But still feels kinda lonely, but from what I saw in this movie's clips, this kid is the worst child ever. And no hate to the child actor though.
@@ntb3210 Nah I haven't
I think there are 3 things that really gripe me about this movie and makes it weird
1. You feel sympathy for the 2 burglars then for the kid protecting his house
2. That they get Buzz back for this movie for a Cameo (in a year full of cameos) and mention Kevin as well making it in the same universe (and then the likes if his character feels odd now cause of his charges and turning himself in to the police in real life after this movie came out)
3. The mom of the kid is an Irish Comedian but I have no clue why they make her do some weird American/ British accent (this is a little nitpick of my own)
Aisling Bea, the Irish actor has LOTS of actions and she didn't mind. The people that complained about it were on Twitter.
@@MrOliverK OK that she didn't mind but she is so funny and so talented that she deserved to be in a movie that was better than this one.
@@robertawalsh2995 tbh nobody deserves to be casted in this movie. At least it wasn't a fanmovie made by some 12 year old on Plotagon and GoAnimate.
The cast in this movie is surprisingly good - Erin from the Office, Aisling Bea, Pete Holmes. Like whyyyyyy?
Catherine O’Hara and Macaulay Culkin were cute and iconic. No one can take that away from them.
mhm
This kid's pretty cute and iconic too, just not in this film. I reccomend JoJo Rabbit, he's given a lot more to work with script-wise.
@@fatcat1414 he's the most wholesome part of jojo rabbit
@@fatcat1414 I THOUGHT he looked familiar
It sucks that they wasted this kid on this movie. He stole the show in JoJo Rabbit what a waste of his talent
13:52-11:28 can somebody tell me the name of the damn song PLEASE
Name of the damn song
that is true
@@MalikProductionsMax 13:52-11:28 can somebody tell me the name of the damn song PLEASE
Name of the damn song
It's worse than that. They made him annoying.
@@supremechadmaster2344 it's from Kirby! It's titled Green Greens Theme on Spotify
You know something isn't right when you're rooting for the "bad guys"
Kevin was a charismatic and clever lead. You want him to win. The Wet Bandits were clearly bad people. They just stole from people and flooded their homes to add insult to injury.
Max isn't charismatic at all. He's a nasty kid. He decides to steal from the guy because he didn't share soda with him. The guy doesn't owe him anything. Yet Max is so entitled he feels the need to steal from him to express his displeasure. (Yes, he only stole the soda, but the point stands).
Meanwhile the bandits were just people who wanted their property returned to them, and they needed it quickly since they were about to lose their house.
That leaves you with an unlikable kid and sympathetic bandits.
I think something was wrong with kid me a part of me always wanted harry and marv (no idea if i spelled that right ) to win
Yeah Kevin's probably a phycho
People don't have to be charismatic to be likeable.
The other parts of him that you mentioned are weird though
@@ankaplanka I just mentioned Kevin’s charisma so I could point out how different (in a bad way) Max is.
I feel so bad for them... the guy seems like he would be fun to hang out with 😎😫
2:20 to translate for this guy basically he said "i don't trust computers to more virtual data from one server to another without making a mistake and corrupting said data"
It feels like even the people who made this movie didn’t want it to exist
It was literally made as a joke on saturday night live.
They then proceed to find a way to make it a reality. It was intentionaly bad XDXD
@@smirkyshadow4152 i feel like this is a pretty big investment for a petty joke
@@El-de6nj It was, they literally went to the creator and asked can we make an intentionally bad home alone reboot, the creator responded how so, they said by making the robbers the good guys and the kid the bad guy, the creator said something along the lines of you know what go ahead.
@@smirkyshadow4152 ...well damn
The exclamation of "Am I Dying?" after having a verbal stroke was hilarious and my favorite part
I searched for this comment just to say…. Same 😂
@@queenpotathoe2154 Yeah, same.
SAME😂😂😂😂
3:41 That “protected by Mccallister home security” sign made me think how hilarious it would have been to see the traps integrated from the first movie into a home security system that Kevin apparently runs. Like if someone just opened the door without putting in the alarm code would they get shot with a BB gun or something?
I would watch the heck out of a whole movie about that, followed by a sequel with Kevin giving up on home security and turning into Jigsaw.
No if they don’t put in the code the claymore under the doormat activates
It would be cool if Kevin went into the home security business, and fitting.
@@coolnerdlll6053 ngl I think the kid in this movie was jigsaw, not kevin mccallister
That'd be great 😂😂😂
This movie makes you hate the kid and feel bad for the burglars, which is the complete opposite of how the premise of a Home Alone movie is supposed to be
Fun continuity:
- Kevin grew up to make his own security company
- Max’s house has a McCalistor security system
- Buzz became a cop
- Kevin calls the police department every year to play a prank on Buzz, saying a kid was left home alone
- so this is why the cops never come to help Max. Buzz tells the department that it’s just some prank his brother is playing
You mean Buzz tells the department?
That's pretty nice. One of the few bright spots in this flick I guess....
That's kinda the highlight of the movie.
Only makes you wish they made a film about Kevin as an adult instead. Maybe make him the villain too like some people wanted a John Wick style movie with him saving his kids or something lol
This was honestly the best part of the movie for me, the Easter eggs to the original. I can’t decide if the worst part was making the “home invaders” the main characters and good people who were being stupid, or the fact that the nephew was shown being a klepto half way in, so we knew that he had the doll, not Max, making the whole second half of the film even more ridiculous because if they hadn’t jumped to conclusions and just told their family what they were looking for, nothing would have even happened with Max!
Nothing beats the original Kevin. There is no Christmas without him. Remakes will never work
EXACTLY I bet an average fan could make a better one then these new ones
The 3rd Home Alone movie is actually kinda good... unpopular opinion?? 😅😅😅
@@16taysia well if that's your opinion I respect that :) every new one just gets worse and worse
@@tails_the_god thanks for respecting my opinion, that's very nice of you
@@16taysia :) yeah your very welcome
The wet bandits of this movie: Just trying to save their home and keep their kids happy
Kevin of this movie: a walking spoiled marshmallow
For real
yeah og kevin actually had some problems with his family but this one is just mad because his mom and dad are planning a hectic trip in the middle of a pandemic and are busy
yup.
A bri’ish walking spoiled marshmallow
@@thebrightdiamondtp7871 I wanted to say that there's nothing wrong being British, but then I remembered that I was British and got depressed.
You realise that the charisma of the wet bandits contributed so much to how well it was received. Being cartoon villains and them being so energetic/comical even when falling for the most random traps
I did like the “McAllister Home Security” sign out the front of the house. Seems like Kevin capitalised on his... “talents”
And it seems that some of his family is still annoyed at him
I can't believe Buzz is a fucking cop
yea i saw that too, he really had a career after the first movie
Good for him 👏
His “talents” of being jigsaw
Moral of the story. Don’t make the punching bag “villain” characters relatable and and completely in the right. Also, don’t be the exec doing the “hello fellow youths” meme all movie
Or just don’t make pinching bags because, whether it’s justified or not, it’s never really funny.
@@danielhart7435 Home Alone, and certain scenes in Shrek
@@blastortoise Well than “relatable” characters in the right should also be punching bags
@@danielhart7435 You can do it its certainly not impossible
Completely in the right? You talking about the robbers…??? Who broke into a house????
Did anybody else root when the "parents" got hurt.... This truly was a horrible movie!
Me too, the couple are the true heroes, and the bratty kid the Villain!
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You know? I never cared about any home alone movie but this movie reminded me of something that is kind of like the Tom and Jerry formula, basically, there's a character that is trying to somehow get/catch/thwart another character, but as they try to do so they end up getting hurt in many comical ways. The point is, the key factor anyone who's attempting to create this kind of formula should always have present as their main priority when writing the sequence is that YOU DON'T HAVE TO MAKE THE AUDIENCE CARE OR ROOT FOR THE ONE GETTING HURT, on the contrary, YOU MUST WANT TO HAVE THE AUDIENCE HOPE FOR THAT PERSON'S FAILURE. Tho most common plot is that the character getting hurt is usually trying to eat the other character, like Tom and Jerry, Road Runner and Sylvester.
So yeah, the people who made these movies aren't good writers
There were only two good home alone movies!
They should do another one, but with the original cast. Like Buzz, Kevin and all the other kids (I know there were loads), have their own kids and the parents of the old movie are now grandparents or whatever. The fact that they were so good was the fact that the people who wanted to break in were criminals and the kid had to defend the house, and himself.
Kevin's dad died
Home Alone 3 is actually a bit of a hidden gem in the sequels. I'd recommend giving it a shot. It's a different kid and different family, but the kid actually calls the police multiple times, and only takes matters into his own hands when he gets accused of lying to the police. Twice. And honestly, the villains themselves are really cool. It's not just some duo of robbers who are just a pair of cartoon idiots, it's a team of four international criminals, bringing the stakes up hilariously high. It's by no means as good as the original, at least when it comes to the big emotional mother-son moment at the end, but it's a far cry above the fourth and beyond.
Plus, Scarlett Johansson is in it when she was like, what, 15? Always fun seeing a fetus version of a Hollywood favorite.
I used to watch Home Alone 3 all the time as a kid and when I found out that the sister was Scarlett Johansson. I freaked the hell out
I used to like that movie!
Yeah home alone 3 doesnt deserve the bad rep it gets. It has a different kid and almost a different plot and also a wholesome storyline with the old neighbour lady. I loved it as a kid, along with the originals.
@@coolhellu I liked how the old lady said “I was there when Hoover was president” lol. The reason fans gave it bad rep was because home alone 1 and 2 set their expectations really high.
I’m glad, I’m not the only one who enjoyed home alone 3!
15:12 I never realized how messed up that exchange is. Kevin declares his belief that *everyone* in the family hates him. His mother's response is to drop a one-liner in his face and only acts concerned when Kevin declares he would never want to see her again. Not even an attempt to console her child or give him some perspective. That kinda crap fosters bitterness kids will carry well into adulthood.
yeah alex was being harsh on kevin. he was just an angry kid who said things he didnt mean cuz his family treats him badly. None of the adults were thinking about how that affected him.
I mean most kids at that age say shit they dont actally feel within 20 minues of the argument
I felt sorry for him, his whole family bullied him :(
You can see John Hughes’ Catholic upbringing shining through in scenes like that and the scene where Kevin crosses himself before praying while having a slice of pizza. Do you think Jews cornered the market on guilt?
If you are a girl. Boys actually grow up out of being little...kids.
I feel bad for this kid imagine getting a huge break in a movie a classic at that but then you realize nobody wanted a remake and no matter if you were a A grade actor nobody’s gonna like you he’s not gonna get any calls back.
To be fair, he already was in Jojo Rabbit, and he was super memorable in that movie. I'm sure he'll get plenty more oportunities.
He was really good in Jojo Rabbit, so there's a chance he will get call backs anyway
probably no one will remember this movie in years, he will be okay
This was a sucky movie to appear in, but he was also in movies like Jojo rabbit, and did fine there, so this isn’t his only acting credit. Course it’s debatable any kid would willingly want to join so many acting projects if their parents didn’t always call the shots
I think people forget that a lot of directors understand that the quality of movies and TV shows is not always consistent with the quality of the actors. You can tell that this movie sucks because of the writing and not because of the actors, they’re just doing their job.
8:00 it is actually kind of hilarious becuse it makes it sound like they know the movie they are making is terrible
Obviously that's the joke, you moron
They should have done a sequel to the original movies with Kevin as a grownup having to defend his own house, yet this time he's actually able to create cool traps with robots or something since he's been studying shit in college or whatever.
Edit: I would definitely be making this a requel to the third movie, the movies past that do not exist, and Kevin meets up with the kid from the third movie. They're both adults and soon become best friends, talking about all the crazy shit they did back when they were kids until eventually a terrorist group is discovered to be lurking around in New York, and the thing is, they're a rival group to the original third movie's terrorists, so now Kevin and his new best friend must defend themselves home alone for the holidays. Kevin would be using his knowledge of robotics from back in college to create traps that use sensors, lasers, and more while his friend helps him.
Good idea actually
My first idea was that kevin is grown up and he would have a son who would defend the house together
( This is just my thought)
@@randomflower1439 That sounds amazing
@@ghristophermyers666 instead of going to the cops he decides to defend his own home sounds interesting
He would murder them with a glock 357
@@seams4186 Yeah Kevin of all people definitely learned the importance of owning firearms.
The home alone 1 and 2 were literally all we needed, literally never get old
My Favorite Scene Is Kevin Asking Trump Direction.
The third is still good!
1 & 2 were on top of a mountain. 3 fell off the mountain onto a cliff. After that the franchise fell off the cliff and into Hell.
@@abdurehmanmalik8974 perfectly said man
@@ApocalypseMaxx Your taste on movies horrifies me 😔
Pitch idea for a new Home Alone movie: a single dad sends his kids off to summer camp and then must defend his house from a gang of 8-year old buglers trying to steal all his candy.
Thats actually good!
Alone at Home
@@mrpedrobraga 😳
Instead of it being the POV of the kids breaking into an abandoned house like in horror movies, it can be from the POV of a squatter. They're trying to hide, afraid that these kids might hurt them or call the cops but the kids are determined to find them so they must protect themselves. A mix of Home Alone & Don't Breath lol.
Hell yea
Imagine hiring someone who's only specialty is migrating a MySQL database. Also, why the hell would they go to TOKYO of all places for Christmas? What are they going to do? Eat some KFC and stay in a hotel?
Christmas is like valentine's day here, except with more KFC. Sure, there are lights, but it's not at all the same.
Also, if they are financially struggling, a family trip to Tokyo seems really stupid.
Tho OG home alone will forever be the best GET REKT
For sure! What do you think bout the second though??? I loved the first and second
Agree’d
This movie is a big insult to the original Home Alone you can’t even compare the two. There is no way on this earth that anybody can actually like this movie
The second was better and everyone knows it even if they won’t admit it
Yeah no one can surpass McCauley Culkin
Max said he has to share one toilet with nine rotten cousins, but he lives in a freaking mansion with three levels on it. There has to be at least four or five bathrooms in that house. The whole family is spoiled rotten and a family who can own that house, a BMW and buy all of their groceries in bulk should have more than one bathroom in the house.
When he took that toy as if he wasn’t gonna have like 50 under the tree made me so annoywd
The economy and stuff. They all have to use the community crapper which is a hole in the basement where they buried the bodies of the talent.
He's spoiled rich kid.
One thing I never noticed in the promos. I actually thought this was like HA4 where the MC was also rich I think? But Kevin's family always had the underlying assertions the family was rich since the trip was on Peter's dime. A flight for 15 to Paris with him, his wife, brother and wife flying first class. A fairly decent house. Just flinging cash for pizza for 15.
I think they just took these assertions and ran with it in the movie. The McAllister's house is not the same as 3 tiered mansion that looks like its not next to another house in terms of yard acreage.
@@Monty2289 correction, in HA 1 Pete's brother was paying for the entire family vacation for his new job in Paris, they were going for free.
Plus he got pissed at Kevin for spending nearly $1,000 on room service in HA 2, so he can't be filthy rich
In defense of Kevin (I hated typing that), hes not wrong in the beginning. Sure, hes a jerk, but either his family didn't get him a plain cheese pizza (which isn't something to not get, as he could be allergic to some stuff), or Buzz actually ate a whole plain cheese pizza so Kevin couldn't eat. Which makes it understandable that Kevin pushed buzz, you would too dont lie.
Yes, Kevin was a bit of a brat, but also not being completely understood. It was a very normal family dynamic.
And Kevin is annoying to the CHARACTERS in the movie NOT the audience that's how you make a proper annoying kid character while Max 🙄 is annoying to the characters and the audience and is not well written with his family at all we barley see them together and how they function and love each other and fight unlike the original home alone
@@Chosen_Cartoons Agreed- besides, horrible kids done right are HILARIOUS in movies which is exactly what Home Alone 1 got right lol. He's so expressive and funny and creative and horrible which is extremely entertaining to watch. "We have this tiny human look at him go". It's great. Much better than kids being good in movies and doing it poorly (I'm looking at you Charlie and the Chocolate factory newer version). Kevin was fun for us to watch when we were kids because "wow that's so cool" and he's hilarious when we watch it as adults because he's absurd.
Kevin is the way he was because other people in his family did things to him and his parents didn't care. Buzz ate his Pizza just to be a jerk and they got on to Kevin when he got pissed instead of getting on to Buzz for eating Kevins Pizza. Just like in Part 2 when Buzz messed with Kevin when they were singing and Kevin fought back but Kevin got in trouble instead of Buzz who was messing with Kevin yet again
I mean, he was 10 too. Like 10 year old kids are brats sometimes, so his reactions weren’t even that crazy
10:19
"We go now while they're not home and get our gallbladder" - auto-generated closed captioning 2021
You went surprisingly easy on this movie. Max is WAY worse than Kevin. He doesn't want to spend ONE NIGHT with his cousins in his gigantic castle of a home for...reasons. The entire premise is a mess because it's legitimately fucked up seeing this family TRYING TO GET THEIR PROPERTY BACK and be tormented like this lol
Not to mention that Kevin not wanting to be around his family actually makes sense.
Exactly!
@@yikesgina but in this movie its just:
"Hey mom!"
"Max I'm on the phone"
"Me hate family now"
The Kevin and his family did have some conflict, concerning that they hate him and he being a little brat ( it's fine because he's 8), but he did regret his decision to wish everyone away, showing that he still loves his family (even if they are jerks). BUT in this movie..... nothing
@@nathanjereb9944 perfect
He did say “I can’t wait to go home and share one toilet with 9 blooming cousins”. I’m not sure if that castle somehow only has 1 bathroom or if for some reason he and 9 cousins all have to share the same one. Maybe he meant they’d all be sharing one in Tokyo. But It’d be a pretty undesirable bathroom situation either way.
Kevin’s character: maybe psychotic but uses his traps to stop to criminals
Maxes character: little greedy troll who beets up a couple
I'd say Kevin is more territorial. After all, he's an eight-year-old kid defending himself from two dangerous criminals. You're right about Max though. That church scene where he thinks himself a child in need. I could punch him.
Max is the worst kind of character. I can't even remember a time where I didn't know to not interrupt someone who is clearly on the phone. I remember knowing to hang out until my parent were done or caught a break. They want to portray his utter lack of respect as cheeky and charming, but it just makes him look like a spoiled brat.
I know right?! My mom would have slapped me across the face for acting like such a little shit
I feel like that phone scene happened in the original movie too.
Right. That kid needs the damn belt
@@AcesMaven It somehow wasn't as annoying. Maybe because Kevin was actually likeable
@@AcesMaven The difference is in HA's Phone Scene, Kevin is legit ignored and neglected. In his first appearance he out right says that Uncle Frank and the big kids can watch the movie but he can't and that "why can't I?" but Kate doesn't care. Honestly, Kevin was really mistreated, even when he was being a brat like some reviewers say so it's no wonder why he's still sympathetic and viewers root for him. Max is just selfish, spoiled kid with no redeeming traits, he hates and insults his family long before we even see them!
12:17 Jam and peff 😂😂😂😂
The premise of this movie upsets me.
I appreciate they changed the plot up a bit, all the other home alones were the same. It had some funny moments and when they said “remakes are never as good as the classics” lol
@@gemil9933 they changed the home invasion plot but almost every scene was taking from 1 or 2 but just with different lines and maybe different placement. Him trying to get his mom's attention was similar to the original.
Honestly they should’ve leaned into a dark comedy where the kid is explicitly the villain and does everything completely maliciously and there is no element of self defense. It’s almost like a Christmas-themed Saw movie where the enemy is a kid
Id absolutely watch that
Yeah, why do I want that more than another reboot of home alone?
That’s true
The movie you're describing is spiral
you should watch better watch out similar to what your saying
The least believable thing in this movie is that the castle they are living in has 1 bathroom
Well said
same thin i was wondering
12:07 I love that old Home Alone Scene. 😂😂😂
Kevin is not a piece of garbage. Hes a kid just trying to survive in a big house with people like Buzz
Yeah I found him quite sympathetic. He’s left out of the family movie time, he’s been called incompetent by most of his family, and his favourite pizza is taken. His actions with his family are reactionary. Max is just rude from the start and you don’t have sympathy for him
He is in the wrong at first, but sympathetic.
@@KeybladeMasterAndy Hes a child. Children say hateful things all the time when they dont get their way
Kevin is both spoiled and helpless at the start of the film, neither of which is his fault. He's sympathetic but also has a lot of growing to do, which is delivered by the end of the film.
agreed but this kid just sucked.
"I'm not ugly, my mom says that I have character." Honestly the best moment. He genuinely felt sad delivering that line. Shame that the rest of the acting is sad for a completely different reason.
Archie Yates is such a great actor. The writers just fucked him over by making his lines so awful.
@@bobthebuilder8110 I'm never gonna watch this crap, but that kid actor looks likeable tbh
The fact that Max and his mom seemed to be the only one’s of their family with a British accent 😂🤔
Aisling Bea (the mother) is Irish anyway. This whole movie makes no sense.
In the original some of the kids spoke French and no English. I thought that was weird, even if their did live in France, they were staying with American relatives who never spoke French in the film.
@@teresasevy1563 If I'm not mistaken they didn't speak French fluently, they studied a little because Paris is where they were going for Christmas.
Some of the other kids did. American dad, British mum, lived in UK from wedding until fairly recently so all kids grew up there, and I’m thinking too much about a Disney+ movie.
Gotta be uber inclusive
Dude if you think this is bad, you should watch the Peacock original movie “Alone for Christmas.” It’s basically Home Alone but the kid is replaced by a dog.
Also, that was Erin, not Pam.
Why on earth would they remake this
Like every other bad remake, to make money. Even bad movies usually make some money.
MONEY!!!
It’s not a remake, it’s technically Home Alone 6.
I don't really understand why they tried to make the antagonists that likeable and redeemable. A big reason people love home alone is because of the fun traps Kevin does and seeing the robbers getting punished in funny ways.... Doesn't really work when the people getting abused are people trying to just get a doll back.
Max is the antagonist. People are projecting the concept of the original on this one. Max is the antagonist and the couple are the protagonists. it's honestly a more than ok movie if you let it be the twist on the genre it's trying to be. everyone is judging it by the standards of the original, not realizing that they explicitly switched the positions this time around
Please tell me that this was a script for another movie that could only get sold if they sold it as a *Home Alone* sequel.
It's actually rather interesting, there's apparently a deleted scene in the first Home Alone where Harry actually admits why he doesn't like Christmas. I can't remember what the reason was, but the reason it got deleted was because it humanized Harry in a way, and I think that was the right call.
Jeff sees online that the doll sells for $200,000 ... you're telling me they paid off their entire mortgage, funded a trip to Europe, and paid for all of the repairs & renovations for Max's mansion house, bought stuff for their kids and also had money to spare? Do the writers not realize that $200,000 doesn't stretch that far? They could've had the doll be worth $2,000,000 instead.
There were several dolls
@@aseiffert3382 It was only that one doll that was worth that much, because its head was upside down. Just one doll.
Did they owe the full amount of their mortgage?
@@lesil1000 Wouldn't "we paid off our mortgage" mean they paid the full amount?
@@aseiffert3382 How many?
How to make an Alex Meyers thumbnail:
1. Quirky (copy and pasted) drawing
2. Spell what… as wut… to be extra quirky
3. Super quirky image from movie
"It's a kid's movie" is a bad excuse for bad movies.
Im spitting hairs, but This is more of a family movie
Facts
how to train your dragon or spirit are great examples of great kids movies
applies to horror movies because half of them throw jump scares and use that as an excuse to not have a proper plot
Bad kids movies are bad to adults but still good to kids
My dad has dark hair and dark eyes and my mom has red hair and brown eyes. Both of my grandfathers have blonde hair and blue green eyes. Red headed people also tend yo have prominently blonde children. Fun genetic facts.
I haven't seen the movie, but the question of why do you look like your yoga instructor? is very questionable
I heard in highschool that anyone can be born a red head, apparently everyone has the ginger gene lol. I had a friend who's parents where both black hair brown eyes lol .
@AntiCringe it isn't how genes work but it could happen depending on the family member/members before them which if you've ever looked at a punnett square you can see that depending on the genes it's actually possible
The only reason I asked the yoga instructor question was because it's kind of odd that 2 people had a kid and it looks like someone else
@AntiCringe who mentioned recessive genes? I think you have your alleles in a twist or dont have a clue how genes work..... What the OP said is perfectly valid, merely replying with a random statement about recessive genes, without context, never helps.
Jesus Christ EVERYONE in the movie is absolutely unlikeable
Bro you don’t feel sympathy or the kid cause he’s spoiled
Nilered is in the airport scene
Que porra é essa
I respect your opinion.
except for the ACTUAL BUGLUARS
6:22 "GET IN THE CAAAARR!!"💥💥💥🤣🤣🤣 Son of a sandwich 🥪!!
I cant believe that after getting the full rights Disney makes this film look cheaper than a 1990 movie filmed on a house. Man, that house felt like Old Money Chicago Christmas, which is awesome when seen by someone who lives in the tropics. The new house just looks like boring currentness.
I mean I'm pretty sure they weren't going to break the bank on this one as far as budget goes given they were taking this one straight to streaming.
Funny thing is, in the original only the exterior shots of the house used a real house, all of the interior shots were filmed on a set.
I wish they were just actual burglars lol. To see good people being tortured isn’t as hilarious and satisfying,
The original movie was already...dicey...(Home Alone 3, though definitely not the "best" of them, is definitely the most "morally solid"), so why did they try to make them sympathetic...? Honestly? Mis-positioned cast members. Ellie Kemper and Rob Delaney as morally irredeemable heels was NEVER going to work. Swap Aisling Bea and Tim Simons (how is "The Guy Who Played Jonah Ryan" in a Home Alone movie and NOT one of the villains?) (now the thieves) with Rob Delaney and Ellie Kemper (now the successful married couple that the thieves resent) and you're MOST of the way there to fixing the movie.
Off topic, but I love your pfp
@@bellablondon6172 Omg, thanks! Lumity stan too? :)
Cruella, Maleficent, Joker, this movie... Why does EVERY villain have to have a sympathetic backstory now?!
Right! Like they always wanna have an excuse for bad and evil behavior. Makes me think that they’re doing this for themselves. That they wanna have sympathy for theme selves idk
Cruella was good tho
Lol I get your point but are you saying Kevin from hom alone was a villain?
Lol haven't seen the movie but wtf happened?
Joker was a masterpiece imo
14:40
"greenscreens look so bad"
how do you tell its in a greenscreen looks exactly the same to me to any other movie
out of focus background? lighting? I didn't see any disappearing hair, artifacting, weird reflections, or fuzzy outlines
"The new home alone movie is worse than you could possibly imagine" well, I can imagine a lot of bad stuff, and I've gone through watching a lot of crap, but that movie just reached a new level of disappointing garbage
If you were disappointed, it’s kinda your own fault, you know? That implies you had some positive expectations for the movie going in
Yeah I did feel that to be a bold claim since I did not hear one person that had a kind thing to say about this movie since it was announced.
Are we not gonna discuss how Jeff could memorise the full names of two people said once a few days ago, but he couldn’t remember from yesterday that, said multiple times, the alarm code was “1112”?
I know, he got the number wrong
Because people tend to remember different things? It might seem odd for some people that others can't remember something "so simple", but the thing is.. it might not be as simple for them as it is for others.
Just saying. It's less odd than you think.
@@ankaplanka the thing is that when he heard the names he couldn't care less so it would make sens for him to forget it, but he realized early on that the number was important
Adhd
They could have done Spaceballs 12345 but no I didn't even get that.
This movie literally feels like they had a bot write the script and no actual human proof read it before production.
I put it in the the directors too, they know it’s not natural sounding when they film the parts and just leave it.
"when I was 10 my parents had the same thing but trust me I found out real quick how to bypass that... You know what forget it"
Had me laughing.
The premise of the intruders being good guys and the kid being the villain could have worked for a horror film, but it's insane to expect people to laugh at sympathetic characters being mauled.
They made the criminals into developed characters, probably just my biggest problem. The other criminals were just bad people, so you could disconnect from what happened to them. This is just sad because they’re doing it for a good cause.
Yeah I have no idea why they did this. People love seeing the traps Kevin did because we are supposed to know the burglars are bad people. Doesn't work when we've grown to understand their motives and those motives are kind of justified.
yeah, the real 'villain' is the child
Just like that other Macaulay Culkin movie, *The Good Son.*
This movie kind of embodies the problem that a lot of these modern reboots have, which is that they clearly couldn't decide if the movie was intended to be for a new audience, or if it's meant for fans of the original. So by trying to appeal to both of those demographics, they just end up not appealing to either of them
When you did the compilation of Marv and Harry getting foiled by the traps. THANK YOU for not showing the nail scene. Actually the most traumatizing thing I've ever seen in cinema
I genuinely hate how everything is literally over explained and scenes just feel like they go on forever
I'll give the movie this much: they actually got Devin Raytray to reprise his role as Buzz from the original movies. That's probably the best thing about this movie.
The difference between this film and a knife is the knife has a point
okay THAT was pretty good
10:42 Dude, earlier in the movie, there was a scene where there was like 5 different types of milk in the fridge
The original actor had a certain charm to his sarcasm. This kid does not. Just seems like a child James Corden.
Which is a shame because the kid actually has acting chops, playing the mc in Jojo Rabbit. But an actor's usually only as good as their script & direction
@@tarotsushima3332 yeah true. Kid was great in Jojo Rabbit
@@thefirely1439 dude thats cruel to the kid, he shouldnt be compared to james corden
@@MagnusTNT yeah that was kinda the point. Like i said he was pretty good in Jojo rabbit but was very very meh.
The Wet Bandits made B&E fun
I think the biggest downfall of the movie was how unimportant the family conflict seemed, the original fight between Max and his mother was completely forced and unnatural, I didn't even realize it was a fight until after the scene. Unlike the original movie where I actually felt like Kevin didn't want to see his family again I always felt like Max and his family never had the "falling out" they needed for the movie to really work.
In retrospect, some of the sequels weren't that bad story-wise, they just lacked the budget and the character (charm) of the first two films. But at least they weren't this.
Home alone 3 was not that bad, I actually enjoy it.
But the rest of the so called "Sequels" are just terrible
@@anez1266 4 wasn't horrible, just medicore. 5 however, shouldn't have been made and the people who okayed it should be kicked out of the industry.
@@lucariomew365 Yeah, uh, 4 is the worst. Worse than 5, worse than this.
i watched the first two around maybe 5 years old when i was 8, me and my sister were gonna binge watch all the movies but i quit after the first 5 minutes of the third movie cause i didnt like how they changed the main character actor
@@serenabrowne2427 At least it was a different character. _Home Alone 4_ they're called Kevin McCallister, Buzz, Kate, Harry, Marv, etc. but they're ALL RECAST. And it breaks canon in more ways than one.
4:34 unfortunately she's technically right.
Honestly, a good premise flip would’ve been a pair of burglars trying to steal the doll instead and Max having to protect it for his neighbours
Max has to break into the neighbors house to set up traps to stop the robbers
Ok, my problem is that he has a castle and only one bathroom..
BRUH SAME
Big house mansions are often confusing…
Nice way to bring the family together 😂
Maybe all of them but one is broken
RIGHT! Place looks like it has 3 - 5 of them at least
Would’ve loved an interaction where the parents say to Buzz “We accidentally left him here while we went to Tokyo” and he’s like “Say no more, I’m experienced with this sort of thing”
Now I am starting to think that this was a sacrificial work that exists for no other reason than to give work to Devin Ratray. Literally, everything else in the film was built around that one scene. It’s like trying to build a shirt around a button.