It’s quite something to create a character so unpleasant that it makes you go “this actor was so much more likable as a Hitler Youth.”

In the original two films, Kevin sounded like his dialogue was written for a kid. This new script, the new kid has dialogue that sounds like it was written for Ricky Gervais.

In the original Kevin actually had a reason to hate his family. They were all mean to him and pushed him around to the point if you were in Kevin’s shoes you would probably wish them away too. In this film the kid barely has a reason to want to be Home Alone other then being an obnoxious brat. He doesn’t go through a character arc of growing up and he barely even seems to miss his family when they are gone.

Something I never noticed as a kid about the original home alone is when Kevin wakes up and goes around the house, the shots are specifically designed to show all the tools he uses for traps later (in addition to showing Kevin’s bewilderment). Buzz’s room shot now reveals the BB gun, the basement shows the clothes iron, etc. So much care went into the original film.

In the original Kevin has many siblings as the McCallisters are a big family, so its understandable how he could easily get lost as his parents are busy juggling so many children. Max is an only child. So for his mum to not notice his absence is just negligent of her as a parent.

A reminder that this franchise became so horrible when they offered Daniel Stern to reprise his role in part 4 he read the script and said, and I quote "Its an insult. Total garbage"

“Max himself doesn’t want to call the police because he thinks his parents will get arrested.” This movie seriously underestimates the vindictiveness of children in the 7-10 age bracket.

Rewatched the original recently and I had forgotten how far into the movie the actual break in happened, and takes up a pretty short part of the movie. Kevin went through so much character growth before that even happened, as he figured out how to take care of himself and miss his family. Some many funny moments (even as small as the shopping bags breaking), and sweet personal growth moments (the conversation with the old neighbour in the church) happen before the break in, so we already really like the kid when it happens. And best part is that it feels like genuine growth, because he comes to the realisation himself that he doesn't feel right, no one makes him become better, though the old guy helps him make sense of it. By the time the thieves break in he's gone from a kid who lashes out in frustration and can't pack his own suitcase to a kid that can take care of himself. He becomes a good kid trying to defend himself and his home. Sequels that focus on the break in and push that as slapstick comedy miss all of that character growth of the kid and the family that makes it such a great movie.

Home Alone 1 and 2 are the only ones that exist in my opinion.

So you’re telling me an actual human (or humans) wrote a story where a working class couple is tortured for an hour and a half by a rich beaver clown and expected most people to like it? Stay classy Disney.

I do think that Buzz is the only character who was done right and I love the idea of Kevin starting a business to keep houses safe

Interesting behind the scenes fact: Andrew Daly is not physically in the scene when they realize Max is missing is because he received a positive COVID diagnosis and has to miss shooting that sequence. That's why he's portrayed as "in the bathroom," and and his voice was added in post-production. So Max's dad was originally intended to care more!

They should just make “Angels with Filthy Souls” into a real movie at this point.

A deleted scene from Home Alone 2 showed that Harry and Marv rationalized robbery during the holidays due to the commercialization of Christmas. It was removed because it made them too sympathetic.

“Lazy and mean-spirited “ seems to be the trend of this current era of entertainment.

One simple fix to have an understandable villain without making the good guy seem like an asshole. Have the couple sell their doll to them for cheap, then learn its worth 200k, and they try and steal it back. You can understand why they want to steal it back but they're not justified in what they're doing.

Being the worst of all the Home Alone movies is a hell of an achievement.

I hate the “it’s just a kids movie” excuse. Kids deserve good media too!

I’m almost convinced that everyone is too afraid to make actually threatening villains now.

Disney is absolutely destroying everything it touches. And honestly the death of home alone came with the 3rd one

Once I saw they cast Ellie Kemper as one of the "villains" I knew it was doomed. For a comedy like this, you do not cast someone as naturally bubbly and likable as her as the character you're supposed to cheer against.

One more thing about this movie I noticed while watching this review: the traps. In the original Home Alone movies, the traps were actual _traps._ All of Harry and Marv's slapstick injuries came about due to their own carelessness and stupidity, with the most interaction from Kevin basically being "push a button." Meanwhile, a lot of Max's traps just consist of him _directly attacking_ the "villains." Not only is this lazier, but it just adds on to the cruelty of the premise.

The Original Home Alone 1 and 2 is so nostalgic simply because all character are likeable, yes.... even the burglar. Home Sweet Home Alone : "a brat torturing 2 adults for no reason" and Disney hope that people will gonna like that brat.

The original Home Alones (and any original version of any movie for that matter) are like spontaneous true friendship. You never saw it coming, you never planned for it, but you have that best friend for the rest of your life.

Home alone, can't exist with cell phones. "He's gonna call the cops!" "From a tree house!?" That's why none of the reboots matter. Too many ways to not be alone.

"Home Alone" was an idea that works for one movie. The second one worked because of the return of the original characters and actors. Once that was gone from the following movies, it doesn't work.

They made the main character unlikeable and made the "bad guys" not the bad guys but sympathetic. In the words of AVGN, "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!?"

Back when producers, writes, directors a n d developers actually took their time to make things meaningful. Gosh, I missed those times

I’m really starting to think Hollywood just doesn’t care anymore, I mean, Disney has no competition and they own every popular franchise

God I miss John Candy, such a small part in the original film but he just knocks it out of the park.

I always thought a cool Home Alone premise would be in an area, where a massive cold frost and snow storm is hitting. To the point most the town is empty. Parents are trying to get back, but are constantly lost in the blizzard. Meanwhile there are a group of looters trying to capitalize off of the vacancy of most the town.

In order for this mess to get made, someone had to say: "let's make the kid a cruel selfish brat, and make the burglars totally sympathetic...then have the kid torture them anyway." Then someone else had to say "great idea, let's go with that." Just imagine.

Why didn't they just make the robbers the protagonists? That'd be a fun little subversion of the Home Alone formula, and we wouldn't have to like Max

You've managed to make me laugh 4 times quoting the original two movies. You literally made Harry & Marv's quote, "It's Santa... & his Elf." 3 times funnier. Tim Curry saying, "Pardon me Sir, but I'm afraid your mistaken" was so geniusly placed. Uncle Frank saying, "YOU LITTLE JERK!" was fun. And the cherry on top of it was Kevin mouthing, "Keep the change ya filthy Animal." Though I suggest if you ever do another Home Alone or Christmas related video add Kevin saying things like, "...I DON'T THINK SO!", "Get off the phone and make me why don't ya.", "Don't you just love it when a kid wins against (2) idiots." and Kevin laughing after Tim Curry's lines. And you definitely missed the opportunity of using. "You're what the French call Les Incompetont!"

Just when James Corden cant get any worse he plays the kid in this film.

You sir, are a saint. Do you understand how many people you saved the mental anguish of having to watch twenty minutes of this movie before they turn it off? Thank you.

The problem is that Disney doesn't know how to write villains, anymore. The "villains" are the good guys and the "hero" is the bad guy. This is not good writing.

2:50 I find the reboot joke more hypocritical than funny.

If I took a crack at a Home Alone in-cannon reboot, I think I'd make it so that Kevin is with his nephew and niece, indirectly, while their home is being broken into. You could set it up in a subversion where Butch is now a rich doctor with a beautiful French wife, and they have two children. Kevin is tasked with watching the kids while they are away for the holidays. Kevin could be away while the house is broken into so that he can't reenter, but video chat the kids and help them setup a defense around the house, telling them he's been in this situation before. At some point he could go radio silent, creating a couple new elements of conflict, and giving the kids a chance to stand alone as characters. Having two kids changes the Home Alone dynamic, where the stakes are reduced, but the family element can be explored like it hasn't been so far in the franchise. Coupled with their relationship with Kevin and his different relationship with Butch, you could explore similar concepts to the first movie while keeping them new, and focused around a teamwork aspect. I think you could do the same with the villains, casting an ensemble similar to Die Hard, where they are more competent and played straight, using reconnaissance and modern technology. Making them into a real threat. I think this would really create a great breakaway from the slapstick making it all the more ridiculous when it happens.

I feel as though not just the fact they thought rebooted home alone, but they made the main character a rich british kid tormenting two middle class parents just trying to provide for their kids. This feels really on the mark for current events oddly enough lol

Hes not pulling punches folks, the editing in this ones hilarious

The enjoyability of Home Alone depended on watching _specifically_ Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern get hurt as much as it depended on Mac's charisma as a child actor, if not more.

What I would’ve done for a home alone reboot would be Kevin leaving his kid alone and having new wet bandits break in, but then it’d turn out at the end that Kevin set it all up so that his kid would be able to take care of himself

An element I don't get is how modern comedy writers smear nastiness, negativity, and an overwhelming sense of nihilism into their writing. Comedy used to be funny because it was either relatable or outrageous, while being intelligently constructed. Now we're supposed to find assholes who do bad things to people and laugh while they do it funny. I simply don't understand it.

Just the description of this is painful. Forget *Home Alone,* this isn’t even good enough to be a *Problem Child* sequel.

Disney always finds a way to make things worse.

"what a McShame" okay, that one got me lmao

Why can't they just give us what we all really want; a new Saw film with Kevin becoming the new Jigsaw.

While Home Alone 2 is indeed a do-over of the first film but in the city, I still loved it and I feel it deserves more credit as a really good follow up. Better than anything we got after it. I think the problem is that they had such a great cast with a premise that could only work in that moment in time.

You forgot to mention the relatives! In the original movie, they were flat characters, but they memorable. They each had a distinct reason why they were annoying. Wetting the bed, bullying, being a Scrooge. Meanwhile in Home Sweet Home Alone, the only relatives I remember were the same. They were either loud or obnoxious, sometimes both! They didn’t feel different and felt like they were putting the same actors in different scenes!

good transition of that edit you did at 0:42 because it goes to show you how home alone started a the top and worked it's was down

Home Alone 1 & 2 will forever live in the heart of anyone he grew up in the 90s. To me Home Alone has a especail place in my heart. No other sequel could surpass this movies.

I tried to get my 4 year old to watch this. He yelled a me and said “I want to watch home alone 1.” So I asked him why he didn’t like it and he said “the kid isn’t cool” and “he’s not a real 8 year old.” The people have spoken.

It's no secret that the original Home Alone has flaws, but damn it has some tight writing. Here's a list: - Why doesn't Kevin call the police? Because he is initially delighted that his family has left due to a previous argument and he doesn't later because he thinks he's a fugitive. - How is Kevin left behind without anyone noticing? Because the family slept in due to a power outage and there are way too many family members to account for. Sure, the Murphy kid was a bit of a contrivance, but it's not unplausible. It also doesn't help that Kevin's passport was thrown away the previous night by accident. That itself leads to the point about the airport as security was much lesser back in those days due to it being pre-9/11. - Why doesn't Kevin call his family in Paris? Because personal cell phones weren't a thing and he probably didn't know his uncle's number due to the distance between both houses (they are in France after all and it is 1990). He is once again still elated over not having his family. I will admit though that it is a bit of a contrivance that the family doesn't call the house themselves. - Why doesn't Kevin go to a family or friend's house? Because they're all gone for the holidays and once again, still elated about the family being gone. Harry and Marv surviving all those traps are a bit pushing it in terms of believability, but it's safe to say that suspension of disbelief can stretch a little far in that area. This is why the movie is both timeless but could only be made and take place in the year it was made as with all the technological and security advances that have been made in the 33 years since the first film, there is no way in heck a kid is getting left home alone during the holidays. Kevin also has a reason to be mad at his family. They constantly look down on him and blame him for things that go wrong even if it isn't his fault. If my big brother screwed me over like that as well as the rest of my family all in one night, I would get pissed too. Why should people like Max? Why should people see the couple as the evil bad guys? This would be like if Harry and Marv were looking out for an orphanage of kids as the sole caretakers and the only way to support them was by burglary and Kevin was just mad at his family because why not. Also, Kevin actually talks and acts like an 8-year-old kid. Max just acts like any adult comedian writing for a kid. Disney took a beloved holiday classic and turned it into another terrible Disney Channel Sitcom movie and I'm not talking about the good ones.

I had very low expectations with all of the reviews I read online. My kids have seen the two originals and love them… this, I have to say for kids aged 5 and 10 did the job of keeping them entertained. The classics will always reign supreme. This was what it was. Not very good but will keep the kids attention.

honestly the fact that they make fun of reboots and talk about how bad they are without making their own movie good for me had to be the most insulting part of it all.

Sounds just like another John Hughes reboot, “Vacation”, where it was just mean spirited knock off of the original idea.

Your editing on this is pure genius! 🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🏼

Excellent video!!

That Marv falling with the sequels sequence is priceless 🤣

Once again Disney fails to understand the core essence of a franchise it's gobbled up.

If you feel like you're missing a sequel deserving of the Home Alone legacy, just watch Last Blood, the only thing it's missing is a McCauley Culkin cameo.

Your editing on this video is so good and funny 😆

So basically Max is a human version of Eric Cartman

I wouldn't necceraly call this "death", more like gruesome zombiefication. This Franchize died long long time ago.

To me, Home Alone is basically Tom & Jerry. A cat and mouse chase where the mouse fights back. It looks like this remake missed that.

Home Alone 2 is still basically the same thing as the first one but the people making it actually tried and they still managed to maintain the spirit of the first one. Also there were still some legitimately funny moments. The same cannot be said for 3-6.

Excellent review.

Honestly I was baffled as soon as I saw Ellie Kemper was playing one of the robbers; she just seemed too likable for the role and that's probably why they gave her a sympathetic backstory.

I guess Disney's excuse for making these bad reboots is, "Drugs cost money."

Great review

That’s what Disney does nowadays. They take beloved franchises, and “remake” them, thinking that they can do them better. Meanwhile absolutely trashing them leaving it as an empty shell of what it used to be. That’s Disney

I am just so glad you highlighted Catherine O’Hara’s great work on the original. I think she really does give it the heart that the later sequels lack.

I feel like they should've done what they did with the Vacation reboot: have an adult Macaulay Caulkan play adult Keven who now has his own kids and one of them gets left home.

It's been years since I saw Home Alone, but seeing those ads I feel like they easily could have done a Force Awakens style reboot/sequel. I see adult Kevin as being this reclusive and eccentric inventor/tech billionaire spending Christmas alone in a giant mansion rigged with booby traps, while both some bad guys (perhaps the wet bandits have franchised) and his family try to reach him. Make him basically an adult child who grows up at the end. I literally came up with that off the top of my head, you can go many ways with it.

Thanx for the video; saves me the trouble of watching the new one. Any thoughts on how you might fix it while keeping the same cast or same semblance of a plot?

The fact that Disney made this movie is the worst part of Home Sweet Home Alone. They know how to make classics that last forever. But they really dropped the ball with this movie.

They should just do Home Stallone, with Sly as Kevin McCallister. He's played by an adult but he's still supposed to be a kid.

the first home alone is perfect, absolutely timeless. the second one was almost as perfect but is sometimes forgot. the third one had a idea but fell short, and then the rest of them were like darts that missed the board. (imo i love the 2nd as much as the 1st)

There is ONE thing that really got me in the reboot, and that was the Scarface reference. I actually did have to pause the movie to laugh at that. My 7yo did like it because she's really just here for the novel gratuitous violence, and can take or leave the rest in any of these movies. I'm in a bit of a weird position, as I'd actually never seen the original Home Alone except for some bits here and there when I was daycare-age, and by osmosis through popular culture. This Christmas we watched the first one and this newest one just a single day apart. I was really surprised at how sophisticated and high quality that first movie was. Very charming, but with just the right dose of laser-guided camp. The reboot is exactly what I expected the whole franchise to be - some kid gratuitously violencing a couple dumb grownups, and that's it.

They should just make a Home Alone short film where Kevin and Harry meeting together again in a apartment building, sitting together in a dark room and make amends. Like the cafe scene in Heat with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. Have it be filmed in black and white for aesthetic purposes.

It should've ended with 2. Part 2 was the perfect sequel tbh. Once Culkin grew up the role was dead. That was his role.

My nanny.. ( grandmother on my mom's side.) And myself watch Home Alone so many times as I was growing up.. Home Alone 1 and Home Alone 2.. it was our movie. Nanny would imitate Harry's mumbling ( which we know today Joe Pesci used.. to keep himself from swearing.) She always told me Harry and Marv were her favorite characters. Fun fact.. I watched my original copy of the Home Alone VHS so much that I had to request a new one for Christmas when I was about four or five years old. There's actually a picture of me probably smiling and holding up my copy of the Home Alone VHS. Anyway.. fast forward to December of 1997.. I I'm now 8 years old. Being the Home Alone fanatic that I was.. I begged and begged my grammy ( grandmother on my dad's side.) To take me to theaters like the day that it came out. She did try to explain to me.. it's not going to be the same.. it's not what you think.. are you sure you really want to go? Of course I told her yes. As we left the theater.. I remember asking her how can that be a sequel? It's nothing like the others and none of the original characters are the same! There's no Kevin there's not even Harry and Marv. Her response was something like well the original characters are too old now. From that moment on I promised myself I would never watch another Home Alone sequel. However.. my nanny did continue to watch them. Of course though.. she agreed that they were just not the same. When I found out Disney plus was releasing a reboot to the Home Alone series.. like you I said something like you know that could go well if they do it right. Honestly.. I didn't think it was going to get on my nerves.. because it was a supposed reboot.. so I wasn't expecting it to stand anywhere even close to the others. You just can't. There will never be anything like the original home alone and Home Alone 2. Made it about 15 minutes into the movie.. and then immediately turned it off. They just didn't even try to do something good! Not sure what they were going for with that.. but it doesn't even deserve to be called a reboot. Pretty sure if any of the original cast members watched it.. they were shaking their heads like what the hell?! Dear Universe.. please make sure that young kids today don't grow up thinking that the Disney plus reboot was what Home Alone is about and what it stood for. Make sure they know about the original McAlister's and the original Harry and Marv!

Very well said, sir.

The best joke in the whole movie is the "McCallister Home Security" sign in front of Max's house.

A lot of the film was filmed in my hometown Montreal so naturally I went and see the production in the West island where they were filming it. They really did a great job by transforming the whole street into a Christmas village and yeah, It was pretty cool seeing all that movie magic. Then i saw the film (and I really struggled to finish it) and was sad to see how terrible it was. They actually legit buried this franchise. Sad

I watched this the other day and I enjoyed it

The first and second home alone movies will forever be the best for me

Somehow, “Tropic Thunder” is aging better than it had any right to, the more I think about the past decade of reboots and remakes.

The kid was all right in Jojo Rabbit but here, good lord.

I held off for a year to watch this cause 😢 I couldn't bear to find out how Disney has destroyed yet another beloved IP

There are ONLY TWO home alone movies.

They made a Home Alone reboot "Look what you did, you little jerks!"

The very Irish Aisling Bea doing a Brit accent is hilarious.

I’m so happy that I grew up with original, fun, and wholesome entertainment.

In the first 2 home alone they got also emotional moments with old man and pigeon lady. Neither this or those 2 previous remekes had that , and moments are why home alone are special,also in the original they got real actors this movie has some comedians whom i never heard of.

There was no point in making the "bad guys" sympathetic. There's no one to really root for because on one side you have two parents trying to get an item that they owned back from a kid they thought stole it and on the other side you have a kid who thinks the "bad guys" are trying to kidnap him and sell him. It actually makes the kid more sadistic because he's literally trying to kill them at that point. Also, the fact that they got Ellie Kemper as the "bad guy" only makes it worse. Ellie Kemper is the last person you want to have in an antagonistic role.

It speaks volumes that the kid was more likeable playing a little Nazi then in this film. However obviously not his fault. Also while I'm thinking about It I just realized that he would've made a better Artemis Fowl than the kid that Disney actually casted! Especially with this characterisation.

Please share any movies you remember rocking the audience. I saw the original Home Alone in the movie theater. Towards the end, everyone there knew it was a special movie. I love comedy movies that are so good that the entire audience cheers all the way through and claps at the end. That also happened with, Ace Ventura 1 and 2, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Dumb and Dumber, Naked Gun, Weekend at Bernie's and off course The Room (not really a comedy). I know I am missing many movies. And I only mentioned comedy movies.

After Home Alone 3, I didn't know, there was something else after that.