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Another detail that's actually pretty good. You see signs for "McCallister Home security" which suggests that Kevin went on to found his own Home Security Firm

I really hope that this movie won't kill Archie Yates' career. He was brilliant in "JoJo Rabbit", seems sweet in interviews, and he's only 12, so hopefully should get more work soon.

The big problem in this movie for me, personally, is the fact that they made the "bandits", Pam and Jeff, more sympathetic and relatable than the "protagonist", Max, that you end up rooting for THEM instead of him. Unlike the villains from the other movies, Pam and Jeff were just trying to get a doll, which was THEIRS to begin with, in order to sell it just so that their kids can have a place to live. As a result of this, when I see them get tortured by the traps, I can't find it funny. It's like with Plankton in One Coarse Meal. Mr. Krabs torturing Plankton is unfunny, as he DOES IT EVEN WHEN PLANKTON STOPS STEALING THE FORMULA. The fact is, watching a character get tortured is unfunny if they didn't completely deserve it. At least in the previous films the bandits/terrorists were clearly trying to steal valuables that weren't theirs, but this film attempts to make the bandits sympathetic in a half-assed attempt to make some sort of "it's all about family" message, which it fails to do...

The worst part is as many others said, you don't ever make the bad guys in home alone sympahathic. I felt for them...

Could you imagine how cool that would be if Kevin and Buzz teamed up to try to break in?

On the fourth Disneycember, my critic gave to me: Four bad reboots Three toucans Two Sith Lords And a blade in the shape of a key

"Beat that, you little trout-sniffer" was the perfect way to end the review. The original HOME ALONE is lightning in a bottle, and can't be replicated. It's one of those rare instances in film, where everything just fell into place.

Just to clarify for everyone Kevin owns a security company and the house the kid lives in has one of Kevin's security systems and that's why Buzz thinks Kevin is pranking him.

Home Alone is a classic Home Alone 2 was unnecessary, but still a good film Home Alone 3 jumped the shark Home Alone 4 felt like a fever dream Home Alone 5 is the one that no one even heard of it until years after it was released Home Alone 6 was doomed to fail

There was an entire scene deleted from the original Home Alone movie where Harry expresses his bitterness about the direction Christmas has taken. It was cut because the director thought it made Harry seem too sympathetic. Smart decision.

As intriguing as seeing Kimmy Schmitt as a villain could be, I think I’ll just stick with the first two

I think the best word to describe Buzz would be "conniving." Not really smart, but definitely knows what he's doing

I didn’t think it’d be too bad unless they messed up the traps. But then they spend the whole movie making the bandits seem nice and so I just felt really bad seeing them get beaten up.

This movie wouldn't have been that bad if they didn't make the "villians" into a sympathetic family. The whole point in watching any Home Alone movie is the traps and seeing the "villains" get hurt comedically. This movie made me feel sick seeing the married couple get hurt.

Making the home invaders sympathetic ruined the entire dynamic. I don't want to see anything bad happen to those two knowing what they're going through.

The big issue A LOT OF PEOPLE had with this movie is that in making the "Bandits" sympathetic characters you don't want to see anything bad happen to them. In the other movies the bandits are actual bad guys who even threaten the kid in the movie but in this movie the kid is never in any real danger they really just want a doll that was theirs to begin with, so it's not fun to watch them get tortured. Also the Home Alone movies haven't really been popular since they started changing the cast in the 3rd one. I have no idea why they keep making them when the franchise hasn't been successful since Home Alone 2. Every movie since Home Alone 3 has been a flop and that's just because no one was interested in seeing the movie remade with a different cast. At least with those movies though, I guess if you never seen the original and didn't have any attachment to those actors as those characters then the sequels are fine... I guess. But Home Alone 6 just ruins it by making Home Alone with no actual villains in the story. They're just torturing a couple innocent people for no reason. What are they going to do in the next movie, make the kid set up death traps knowing full well he's not in any danger just cause he doesn't want a babysitter? I wouldn't be surprised if that ended up being the next movie, kid tortures babysitter to prove he can protect himself home alone and not only does some innocent babysitter get tortured just for trying to do their job, but the kid gets rewarded in the end for destroying the house and trying to kill his babysitter. Sounds like a plausible sequel at this point. Would be terrible and yet they keep making them... for some reason. You want to make a good sequel, how about Adult Kevin runs a Home Security business Harry and Marv from the first movie are known to have escaped prison again, and Kevin is so confident in his home security system that he leaves his own son home alone knowing full well that Harry and Marv are out looking for him. They find out where Adult Kevin lives, the security system goes off setting off the usual traps but since it's a more high tech system set up by Adult Kevin the kid doesn't even have do anything but monitor some security cameras and press a few buttons to set off the traps when needed. Assuming you can't get the original actors for the Sticky/Wet bandits just write it so they're too old to do this kind of work themselves anymore and hired some younger guys they met in prison to target Kevin. Still do the thing where Kevin just routinely leaves his son home alone because he's so confident in his high tech security system that he feels his child is protected even when no one is there to watch him. We could even see Adult Kevin building and installing the different parts to the security system in a time lapse at the beginning of the movie. That would feel more like a proper sequel to the original movies making it more about Kevin and feeling like a natural progression of his character than to just randomly have a bunch of Kevin clones running around.

I think seeing the other sequels helps to say "it isnt the worst one" I mean 4 didn't even try beyond the set up "smart house"

From what little I've seen, it's so horribly mean-spirited. It's a lot less fun when the "home invaders" are _pleading for the pain to stop._

On the fourth day of Disneycember, the channel gave to me Four kids home alone Three families Two Clone Wars And a ranting of Kingdom Hearts' Pooh Tree.

This better get its own nostalgia critic episode. It honestly feels like a throwaway gag from channel awesome that Disney found, and made a movie.

"They're one off from the Police Academy movies." Only difference is the Police Academy movies are or can actually be funny, unintentionally or not.

Doug should do a Nostalgia Critic review of this movie and Home Alone 5.

I actually heard the actor playing the kid is great. I heard he’s phenomenal in Jojo Rabbit, which is a film I really wanna watch

2:20 Fun fact: Kenan Thompson was a cast member from the 90s Nickelodeon comedy sketch show “All that.”

You should do a review of the other Home Alone sequels this year Doug.

I feel bad for the kid actor. He was great in Jojo Rabbit :)

It's unfathomable to me that you still haven't done Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves yet…and that this'll be another year where you miss it as well.

ON the fourth day of disneycember the critic gave to me 4 deadly traps 3 catchy songs 2 best friends And a child beating villains with a key!

*On the 4th day of disneycember the critic gave for me:* 4 Deadly traps 3 Gifted children 2 Lightsabers and a Keyblade for a kingdom heart realm

I wanna see a Home Alone 7 where it’s about grown up Kevin and Marv, played once again by Macaulay Culkin and Daniel Stern, Marv has gone on to become a very troubled man suffering from severe PTSD from all the traps he was subjected to in the previous movie, he also reveals that Harry had the same problem but tried to numb the pain using drugs and eventually died from an overdose 20 years ago, and when he goes to seek therapy it turns out Kevin is his therapist and it’s ironically a movie with no slapstick whatsoever and is actually a slow paced drama in which the 2 of them, throughout all of their therapy sessions find out more about each other and grow a close friendship, almost like a Home Alone version of Good Will Hunting

I'm surprised he didn't regard the plot holes in this movie, like the couple could've just have easily asked the kid for the doll back and didn't even have to break in.

I feel that movie should've had two bands of burglars the mom and dad trying to take the doll and a legit burgaler trying robe the house and the kid thinking they are in kahoots.

I'd watch this again over A Christmas Story 2.

Doug, you misheard what Buzz said. Buzz said the house is protected by Mcalister Security, not that it's the Mcalister house. So apparently Kev is some security ceo now.

The biggest mistakes of this movie were: 1. Making the ‘bandits’ sympathetic in this movie. Nobody is going to see a pair who are trying desperately to save their home so that their kid doesn’t have to spend Christmas on the streets and think ‘these are guys I wanna see get tortured for 15 minutes’. Its just not possible. Nobody is gonna think they deserve it. Which is only compounded with the second mistake. 2. Making the injuries as a result of the traps as realistic as they were. One of the reasons Home Alone is so funny is *because* the wet bandits have superhuman durability. The worst they get is some redness from Harry’s burn on his head, or the marks from Marv’s face, as well as pained groans. Its funny cause a) they deserve it and b) cause they seemingly bounce back with minor injury and are still vile enough to enjoy them being tortured. It is NOT funny to see the woman’s feet be realistically blackened and blistered and have her LIMPING through the rest of the movie (especially since followup traps ALL target her feet, like getting a weight dropped on them and legos) it is NOT funny to see the guy have that massive egg on his face after he’d s hit with a billiard ball. And it is ESPECIALLY NOT FUNNY to see them reduced to tears, begging for mercy, and asking ‘why is he doing this to us’. This may surprise you, makers of this movie, but we didn’t like the original simply cause we like seeing people get hurt.

When I’ve been asked about it, I tell people “Imagine the first, but Harry and Marv are hard working honest guys and, through a wacky misunderstanding, they think Kevin stole something their dead mom left them.” Suddenly not so funny.

“This is not nearly as bad as I thought it would be..” *exits video in crushing disappointment*

He was nicer than any other reviewer of this movie so far!

Nostalgia Critic review of this movie next year maybe?

John Hughes took the magic with him to his grave. The only home alone movies we claim are the first 2 and maybe the 3rd one

Definitely surprised to see critic says a few positive stuff for the movie even though I didn’t care for it honestly

2019: " If this [Lion King 2019] was the movie you got an emotional reaction to. How did Timon put it? " Timon: "Have you got YOUR lions crossed!" 2021: "If you're looking for a Home Alone movie as good as the original? How did Buzz put it?" Buzz: " Beat that, you little troutsniffer. " If Doug doesn't ask how a character put it in 2023, the cycle will be broken!

Home sweet home Alone more like Home sweet release of death

Oh the movie that I didn’t even watch but still made me say “LET IT DIE ALREADY!!”

This movie just adds to my "The McCallisters are actually part of the Irish Mafia" and either Buzz turned his family in or the cops are paid off buy the Mafia and Buzz is there to make sure no one tries to go against them

This movie made the huge mistake of making the villains the sympathetic and the kid completely obnoxious. The biggest issue is that by the end I don’t think we’re meant to dislike the kid in the end. So it was just, not fun to see the traps in this film.

Damn, it looks so fucking funny now that you put it that way 🤣🤣🤣 I actually laughed hard when you explained some of the scenes, and the fact that is a bad Holiday movie just makes it even better, take this from a guy that totally adores watching Jingle All the Way every December 🤣

Anyone else hoping he does a review of this. Or maybe The Ref (Dennis Leary as a robber playing therapist to a dysfunctional married couple) Fun for the whole family.

I’m happy to see you rip on this but please don’t tell me that I have to wait until the end of December for the DuckTales 2017 Disneycember!

1:53 Patrick: I got an idea, why not go in and ask him for it?

I was so caught me off guard that Buzz turned out to be a cop but yeah I could totally seeing Kevin calling him to troll with him about a burglary in the family house 😅

I think we can all agree Home Alone died after Home Alone 2!

So where Kevin is actually defending his home and his life from legit criminals, Max is just a sadistic idiot who tortures an innocent couple trying to save their home. Max is the freaking villain.

They should make a Home Alone where they have to go back in time to stop Kevin's parents from leaving him the second time to set back order in the universe so the sequels wouldn't exist.

“Beat that you little trout sniffler!” Well put!;)

"Ugh, this is garbage. I don't know why they're always trying to remake the classics. Never as good as the originals" literally a line in this movie.

There's probably going to be a nostalgia critic review of this very soon.

I will say, I kinda agree. I didn't like Home Sweet Home Alone, but I easily thought Home Alones 3, 4, and 5 were WAY worse. This actually had some good physical gags, adult Buzz makes too much sense, and I can't believe they actually found a good reason for why the parents couldn't be contacted in 2021: yes, he has no cell phone, and Buzz thinks it's a prank call, but another thing you missed was that the boy was worried his mom would be arrested for child neglect and so he made a CHOICE to not contact the police. Again, the bad stuff sticks out too much for me to like this film, but Home Sweet Home Alone actually wasn't... well... THAT bad. Still bad, but not THAT bad.

They should've had Marv out of prison and gone straight as a lowly street worker to be the scary person that the kid learns to trust.

nothing can be as bad as home alone 4

This was an eeeeextremely charitable review

Just got done watching this one. The cameos, references, and homages were hilarious. The unique twist at the end was quite pleasing.

Home Alone 7 : we follow Buzz as a rookie in Police Academy...

I said it another review's comments, but I'll repeat it here. This movie feels like it was written by whoever posted those "Kevin is the REAL villain of Home Alone!" theories all over the Web. And wow, Bud was such a sociopath way back then. Not sure joining the police will improve that.

They should have stopped at Home Alone 5 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

On the Fifth day of Christmas my true love sent to me. 5 (Not) Sweet Homes 4 Special Gifts 3 Jedis 2 Loving Birds And a Hero with a Keyblade

Just a minor correction: The house was not the McCallister House; the house was supported by McCallister Security Solutions. Apparently Kevin grew up to be a house security expert which I thought was actually one of the few funny jokes in this movie.

1 thru 3 is all you need. 3 got a bad reputation but it's not nearly even unwatchable. Home Alone 3 is still John Hughes even if worst John Hughes, it still had effort and an interesting setup. 4-6 are abominations

I prefer the original Home Alone.

Despite it's flaws I still loved this movie.

This is a unique take on it. Most people just crap on it.

I watched Jeremy Jahns review the same day this posted, so I’m getting weirdly inundated with this stupid movie today.

Honestly a waste of time film in my opinion but I will give it something that the criminals are different

This & Holiday Heist had a similar problem; the adult characters weren’t trying to rob the house, just take back what is rightfully theirs (and not in the way of Home Alone 3, where it’d be used for illegal purposes)

To quote a SpongeBob line that summarized this movie. “BOOO YOU STINK!!”

Yet another attempt to cash in on the home alone franchise.

You’re right, it’s not a Good movie, but i was entertained! Agree that the cast really made it watchable. Pete Holmes killed it 😂

It was honestly very nice to Buzz again.

Never saw this but saw Alex Meyer's review of it, and even with him just describing and condensing the story, he got to the break-in and I still thought "Wait a minute - the couple are the villains?" A glorified PLOT SYNOPSIS made me feel bad. That's how much those characters didn't deserve to be Home Alone'd.

This could've been a great dark anti home alone movie If they made the kid more unlikeable and he did in fact steal the doll.

it’s interesting…because for all the sequels and remakes, i give them credit for at least trying to do something different. even still, this looks stupid. i appreciate this review and others that recognizes them for trying and not just dismissing it immediately.

Incredibly helpful, hilarious, and well detailed review, really appreciate you putting this together

The funny thing is, with the record the Home Alone movies have, this one probably is in the top 3

This one is almost as bad as Home Alone 4.

Are y'all gonna cover Tangled The Series this year?

At the end of this review, I made a mistake in thinking that the bag of Granulated sugar was a snowball. Why? Because they're both white. If 2 things are the same color, and you mistake 1 thing for another, it can confuse you, and that happened to me.

Y'know what I actually would want to see? Home Alone 6, where the entire (surviving) cast of the first film is back, with Kevin having grown distant from his family after the way they treated him (leaving him behind twice for example), only for them to want to surprise him for the holidays with a big family reunion. The result is Kevin in his home as his entire extended family try to break in to spend the holidays with him, while Kevin has no idea and thinks he's under attack because 'he's the famous kid who fought off the Wet Bandits not once, but twice'.

When you thought Home Alone 4 was bad :)

The Home Alone franchise has practically been ruined ever since the fourth film I don't think it's necessary to really ruin it even more

They couldnt even get kevin to do a cameo

I don’t plan on watching this movie, but the way Doug makes it sound sounds more like a sequel to Mouse Hunt

just a thought, would everyone be fine if they made an animated Home Alone movie?

Is Shang Chi next?

I can't wait to see it in Nostalgia Critic form and Doug I hope you have a good Christmas 🎄

I felt the same way. I was so mad at first. But then when I forced myself to sit down and watch it I told myself it wasn’t actually that bad but I know they tried

Please review The Meteor Man! Its a cheesey superhero film from 1993 with an all African American cast that needs to be talked about.

Having not watched this review yet, this movie is terrible. The worst of them. Worst of the sequels.

Little Doug is home alone in the studio as Rob and Tamera try to break in to steal the Wilkin's Coffee.

Anyone think "trout sniffer" is like...the strangest insult ever? Wtf does it even mean? That Kevin walks around fish markets sniffing the trout? 😂