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I feel that despite being a streaming exclusive, it'll probably end up in my local Walmart bargain bin.

The problem is they aren't STEALING anything. They are getting something back that was theirs and what they believed was STOLEN from them. The villains aren't villains. Instead of it being bad guys who want to harm people or ruin people's homes these people are trying to save their own. That fundamentally messes up the whole plot dynamic. The kid is no longer someone I want to root for like Kevin. It's just ... they messed up everything about the plot that made the first movie great.

In my opinion the worst part is when they want you to sympathize with the “burglars” there is only one Time I ever felt bad for Harry or Marv.(When Marv got pelted by like 10 bricks) it makes watching them get tortured less enjoyable

Honestly one of my favorite things about this movie is that Macaulay Culkin was offered a cameo in the movie but he just refused.

I'm really happy Buzz says they left Kevin at home only twice indicating that the fourth film is non canon AS IT DESERVES

Ignoring all the other issues with the movie, they should’ve explained the kid’s engineering skills better. Like, they could’ve had a joke where each year all he gets are those STEM kits parents push on their kids. He’s just got a pile of them he’s never touched and he’s like, “Why can’t I just get an action figure or some trading cards for once?” But then he later uses those kits to help make some of the traps. Maybe it might help avoid him coming across like a complete psycho.

Fun fact: in Germany, the movie was called nicht wieder alleine zu Hause which translates to Not home alone again, which is how everyone is feeling about this movie. I really wish this was never made because it was a cash grab.

i feel like a big issue with the movie is how the traps arent satisfying. In the original, the traps work, the traps are creative, and the thieves react in a comedic/cartoony way. The thieves in the og got more angry as the movie went on, while in this movie they just cry and break down. Their reactions ruin it for me. Home alone traps just aren't fun if the person experiencing them starts crying

Honestly I can't be the only one who found it weird that after being beaten in so many ways through the movie, the pair trying to get their doll still felt bad for the kid for being home alone. idk, just... Leave him be alone on christmas, call a cop to check on him, anything else than being "oh yeah this kid broke my foot to the point where the bones were dust, but we still invited him over to our house :)"

I literally felt sick when the intruders began begging just to talk it out and he still kept hurting them. Like this is straight out of making of a murderer or evil lives here or something

I think part of the problem is the grown ups don't really come across as villains, they seem more like desperate people who've fallen on hard times. This undercuts any schaudenfreud sent their ways. The traps don't feel like karma. They feel like a tragic mistake. It'd be like in HA2 if Kevin decided that the appropriate reaction to being scared of the bird lady would be launching bottle rockets at her through most of the third act.

My biggest problem with this movie is how the entertainment is predicated on abusing these two innocent people - who are struggling to provide for their family - while focusing some unlikable little spoiled rich turd who looks like a young Peter Griffin, but acts like a British Eric Cartmen. The original movie had charm, wit, and a clear villain who actually deserves the abuse; this move was just derivative trash made to cash in on the name.

The traps in this really feel more like characters getting tortured or killed in a horror film. This is how bad the slapstick is. It's not funny, it's just upsetting and hard to watch. It really doesn't help that Max in the freezeframe at the treadmill makes hm look vicious and evil.

the best home alone sequel we could've asked for is the google assistant commercial starring Macaulay Culkin as an adult in the same house.

I feel like making this movie with no villains was a bad choice. The 'villains' were literally trying to save their house and their children. And also can we talk about that icicle scene? Out of all the traps that max layed out, Max literally tried to IMPALE the 'villains'. I saw this scene and thought it pretty dark considering this happened over a misunderstanding. Not to mention the couple had children to take care of.

The kid was crazy, he did not learn anything meaningful as Kevin did, i felt he stayed bratty. The battle plan scene horrored me, i was rooting for the burglars, opposed to the original where i was worried about Kevin. The mother! in the original she suffered for her kid, and did anything she could to get back to him, howevered this remake made her just sit on a plane and arrive home. The only good thing was the mccallister cameo.

From what I understand, too, the whole reason the "villains" are trying to get the doll back isn't just for solely monetary gain- the rare doll is supposed to keep them from LOSING THEIR FAMILY HOME. It just makes the whole "Sneaking back in to get what they think is their own property back" premise and the kid losing it on them because he thinks they're there to kidnap HIM for money so much more sleazy and a weird "rich kid throwing shit at people trying to save their home" dynamic. Bleh.

They completely ruined the dynamic of the burglars. They were made to be sympathetic which makes it not fun to watch them get attacked at the end since it was all just a misunderstanding

They somehow made that giant ass lump on the dudes head look way more painful then Marv getting a brick to the head 4 times... what made them think making the intruders have a decent enough motive (and also be relatively harmless) was a good idea if they also planned on having some of the most violent, sadistic traps ive ever seen in these movies? That weight on the treadmil scared the shit out of me cause he actually couldve killed the lady, it embedded itself into the door behind her wtf?????????

When I heard "He's hurting me Pam... Why is he doing this to us Pam?" I genuinely nearly cried... Jesus...

Let’s be honest here. Pam and Jeff are the protagonists of this movie. They’re just two parents who need money in order to keep their house just so that they and their kids could have a place to live. As a result of that, you feel more emotion for THEM instead of the main character, Max, you know, the kid who’s home alone, THE ONE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ROOTING FOR? Unlike other films, in which the burglars more or less deserved what they got (First film, Wet Bandits tried to rob Kevin’s house, second film, the Sticky Bandits try to steal charity money meant to got to kids who desperately need it in a hospital, third film, four terrorists try to steal a chip that controls a missile for a North Korean terrorist organization, fourth film, Marv and his wife try to get revenge on Kevin, fifth film, three art thieves try to break into a house to steal a valuable painting and try to kill anyone who gets in their way), where whenever the robbers fall for the traps, it’s funny, here… it’s not funny. Especially when Pam starts CRYING over the fact that their kids will be forced to live on the streets just because they can’t pay their debts. This film kind of reminds me of the SpongeBob episode, One Coarse Meal. In that episode, Mr. Krabs tries to terrorize Plankton into committing suicide so that Plankton will no longer try to steal the Krabby Patty formula. Ignoring all the other major things the episode does wrong, this episode basically is saying, “It doesn’t matter what Mr. Krabs is doing here, he’s the hero, Plankton’s the villain, so if Mr. Krabs wants to drive him to suicide, that’s OK because he's the hero!” The fact is this idea DOES NOT WORK if you feel sorrier for the supposed “antagonist” of the story rather than the “protagonist”. As for Max, the main character, he’s overall pretty bland and lacks the charm of Kevin, or Alex from the first three films. Heck, even though 4 and 5 are hated by a lot of people, at least THERE they made it clear that the kid is the protagonist, and the bandits are the villains. I guess they wanted to mix things up with this film to have it stand out from the previous films, like having the villains be good because it’s Christmas and the important thing is family and all that, but the premise is way too mean spirited, and having Pam and Jeff suffering through the traps, while they are ALREADY SUFFERING FROM LOSING THEIR HOUSE AND NOT HAVING MONEY TO FEED THEIR KIDS is overall just way too depressing for me to laugh at.

I kinda feel bad for this kid he was one of the best if not the best in jojo rabbit so it’s sad to see him in a bad film

The problem here is that they made the “burglars” a down on their luck couple just trying to retrieve what was rightfully theirs and the kid just brutalizes them in his traps making the audience feel sorry for them Plus the kid Max is extremely unlikable in contrast to Kevin from the first two movies

The fact that they had the balls to make a "Why do they keep remaking the originals?" joke is just... Insulting.

You know you’d think these people would at least understand the slapstick aspect of the home battlefield bit. That every slip, hit, and shock are meant to be a laugh. Sure you can have them get hurt, and there should be visible damage on the intruders, but it should never impede on them beyond the immediate scenes after it (even then). Also the fact that they made the intruders good guys completely ruins the joy of the home battle field. Like mentioned in the video you just feel bad for them since they have a just cause behind their want to get into the house so in the end it just feels like the kid is a psycho tormenting some people.

Nothing can or has ever come close to the first Home Alone.

When I first watched the trailer, I was shocked at how mean-spirited the traps were. Like, those characters were put through serious harm instead of slapstick punishment. And seeing the movie and knowing their predicament, I sympathized with them more than that shit kid.

Personally, 3 is actually my favorite. Love it or hate it, it wasn't trying to "copy" the original apart from the base format. It was genuinely attempting to be it's own thing, and to be honest I love it just as much as 1 and 2. The rest? ... Yikes.

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Cant believe that SAW and Home Alone made a collaboration together :). Because this movei feels like one

I do feel bad for the child actors in these films. It's easy for people to immediately dislike them because they're in a reboot. It's like tripping at the start line of a race.

At least Home Alone 3 was funny, charming and had a realistic story. I still consider it to be on par with the first two. Give me a year or two, and I could expound upon the McCalister world building and make it to where both Kevin and Buzz gets involved in some way

I'm sorry, but there was nothing about A Kid being home alone and pranking intruders that Screams Franchise.

I like some of the ideas of this movie, but the execution was just horrible.

It’s probably for the better that this was a Disney plus only release. This doesn’t deserve to be on the big screen.

This just makes me feel bad for the villains because in the original they were crooks who had no problem hurting Kevin so the deserved it and back then the traps for funny holding for longer then necessary to get the joke or doing something unexpected but this it just feels like the kids pure evil torturing people who just want to get their property back. They have nothing against the kid but he just straight up tries to kill them

You know, this movie could have been a little better if one of the parents, particularly the mother left him behind on purpose to teach him a lesson, and if the "dolt" wasn't stupid. It'd give a reason for why Max is such a rude kid, while also showing that he's intelligent enough to outsmart two average adults, and not full on morons.

Can’t wait for the 2029 remake: Far From Home Alone: The summer special Edit: The plot is essentially home alone But the kids goes on vacation as the parents are stuck at home. Our Protagonist Brian is stuck in (insert generic and mediocre hotel brand here) and is trying to protect it from the dry bandits.

The one time Disney had a chance to capitalize on their villain fetish, and they threw it out the window to frame genuinely struggling people as the bad guys.

okay so : Original Kevin - Afraid, knowing that the burglars wouldn't stop being criminals for a kid. No problems with maybe even killing a kid. This ''Kevin'' - The ''Burglars'' even want to TALK to him. But still, he throws this spoiled milk at them, hurting them and just ... being kind of mean. Also, there is like kind of a difference between a ten-year-old left home alone and a near teenager. When I think of my ten-year-old and how she actually is SO different from herself a year ago ... When it comes to being alone, having to do mature things, cooking and baking - Two Years make a way bigger difference. Like... I wouldn't leave my ten-year-old alone for more than a weekend and even then like ... I have to know, she is safe and I would constantly think about her safety. But a twelve-year-old? Well - Give her numbers when there is an accident, fill the fridge, prepare some meals and while I would still be a little bit afraid I would trust her to be safely alone for a weekend or even up to four days......

yeah~ i think it's once you humanize the "villains" that's when this movie goes downhill. sure: maybe they wanted to make this more Christmasy and make everything work out just fine, but this is a Home Alone movie. making the thieves too likable or even redeemable just doesn't work. doesn't help we don't want to see said people get brutally hurt. that's just cruel. yeah, this is a hard pass. I would rather watch the other "sequels" then this... or just the originals. that's a fair compromise.

Ya know at the end of the video where you put them saying "this is bad" or "remakes are never as good as the original." It made me feel like they made this knowing it was gonna be bad. Especially with the remakes quote.

Disney is literally dumping Fox, the only good children’s movie from them this year is Ron’s Gone Wrong and as I said, ONLY, Disney will just ruin any family film from them and just ask for your money, Disney nowadays is disappointing Edit: I hope the new wimpy kid is gonna be good

Did you somehow miss the fact that the worst thing about this movie was that the couple were actually really nice and kind of relatable compared to the bratty stuck up kid and no one really enjoyed seeing the two of them go through all the traps and turmoil because in reality they didn't deserve it the way the bad guys in the previous films did? Like, that is the biggest reason this movie is as bad as it is and you seem to have not noticed that it was going on?

After the disaster that was both Home alone 4 and 5, i'm surprised they're still making more movies.

I'll say it now, even Home Alone 3 is better than this shitshow, at least the Antagonists deserved it.

The biggest problem to me, outside of the two "villains" not really being bad guys, is that the original Home Alones, the slapstick felt cartoony because it was, well, slapstick. But in this movie the traps come across like traps you'd see Jigsaw come up with. You can feel the suffering in their voices and reactions, while in the original the reactions are much more dumbfounded and wacky, which helped to soften the blow of some of the more extreme traps.

The "Tell don't show" trope is definitely a problem with modern writing in movies sadly. Seeing Buzz as a cop, and the house logo as "McAllister home security" were the only good things about this movie.

I keep forgetting to say but thank you for being one of like five creators on this platform that actually bothers putting on subtitles. Much appreciated.

I just LOVE how the burglars we’re trying to reason and Max was like nope I and tried to kill them

When i saw the ads for this movie i thought it was some rip off trying to capitalize on how much people loved the original, and not made by the same company trying to capitalize off how much people loved the original, my god

It hurts seeing how little they cared, there's still potential for a good Home Alone remake, but if a random person can probably write a better movie than Disney, maybe it's best left behind I guess.

I don't know why, but the way he says "She cried happy tears" is the creepiest thing I've heard all year.

The “Never as Good as the originals” line is so bad. Like, haha guys we’re self-aware so it’s funny guys haha!

Can I just say it is genuinely hilarious what they do with the OG characters. It's crazy believable that Kevin owns a security company and uses his power to troll Buzz *annually*.

There were technically only three home alone movies Home Alone: Home Alone Home Alone 2: Not home but alone Home Alone 3: Home Alone Home Alone 4: Not home not alone Home Alone 5: Home not alone Home Sweet Home Alone: Home Alone

10:05 beautiful. Absolutely beautiful Also, I agree; I couldn't enjoy any of the movies due to my having sympathy for the couple. Especially the husband. He was literally crying and begging for the kid to stop. But at the beginning of the invasion, not once did either of them say, “WE JUST WANT OUR DOLL BACK, YOU LITTLE SHIT!” Or talk to the kid's “grandmother” that they think he took the doll. But yeah, I want to give that poor husband a hug

When I was a little kid and my parents told me there was more than two Home Alones (that were terrible) I always wondered why they didn’t cast Macaulay Culkin in a third movie as an adult and the new kid’s father. Like, Kevin McAllister accidentally leaves his son or daughter at home on Christmas. Then we could have had cameos from Mr. and Mrs. McAllister and Uncle Frank and Buzz and maybe a new set of bandits? Like it’s not that hard to continue Home Alone without it being ripped off guys

your videos are the only way one's ever going to enjoy such movies, good job dazz!

You so used the winter theme from Diddy Kong Racing in the video. Thank you for the greatness.

Disney’s fading into irrelevance… and now their trailer has caused YT to ban dislike counts. Like, WHY!? One element I do like is bringing back Devin Ratray as Buzz who’s a cop now, even if it doesn’t get enough screen time.

But Harry and Marv were ready to bite Kevin's fingers off! They weren't just trying to save their home and get back their own rightful property! They were menacing, and a little scary to me as a kid. What happened?

it would have been so much more satisfying if the parents sued Max's family for all the bodily harm he did, the 8 ball canon would at the least fracture a persons skull, and when he set Pam's feet on fire, I don't even need to explain that one 🤕🤕🤕

I ended up watching the movie with my sister and at one point we were just confused at why they kept jumping between two famailies. it was jarring for us to have to focus and remember two families rather than just one family. i think the focus of two families really scuffed it more than it actually was.

As I said, have the kid be Kevin’s child, and have his son be left home alone

These "righters" must have thought having a sympathetic villain will improve the movie but forgot about the traps. home alone is one of the franchise’s that shouldn’t have developed villains Or be a franchise to begin with

idk if this was intentional but if it was nice reference to your old pikmin vids at 10:03 -From a pre 1k subs fan [really glad you've found success :)]

I love your ost games picks in the background !

is disney *TRYING TO TRAUMATIZE THEIR AUDIENCES!?*

Fun fact: the house code is the film's release date.

When i heard the Mousehunt theme 19:10 i also thought that was a better film than this one. Don't forget the gangster remake in space! They gave all the tropes of a protagonist to the villains, even the music. It would have been original if they turned the traps on the kid, or if Buzz the policeman checked in and taught Max the value of family or something. A cameo from Kevin warning about the long-term effects and legal repercussions of homemade traps? give us anything else, not whatever this watered-down movie ended up as.

Bruh, in Home Alone and Home Alone 2, Kevin's family keeps antagonizing him thus he hates them (as a normal person should) but later learns to just accept and love his family and maybe they might love him in return. The antagonists were just bad and despicable which makes their pain hilarious. But in this heaping pile of garbage consisting of s*** of variety, rotten food, poisonous gas and regret, the protagonist just outright hates their own family without explaination and the robbers are just so down in their lives I feel like they should be the protagonist.

The thing that also made Home Alone and to a degree Home alone 2 so special to me was McCullough Culkin. He played the role with both a innocence and snarkyness that made you like Kevin and sympathize with him. You felt sad when he started to be sad that his family wasn't around. He was also a lot more intelligent in how he carried himself and acted.

I knew this movie was gonna be bad, but damn this is god awful.

I call this the riverdale effect. It’s so bad there’s no way they were trying. They must have purposely been making it bad so that people can post about it. That’s so insulting, I wish Hollywood writers would put in at least minimal effort

I like how you have added little bit of Fall Guys music in the background after the part of the vid where you noticed the Mouse Hunt motif. :P

Home Alone isn't Home Alone without Macauley Culkin, Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. The Wet Bandits are the perfect villains for a kid like Kevin. My thought for the proper Home Alone sequel features Kevin as an adult. He has a big family and a big house. He owns a toy making company where he does a lot of his own designing. He has a very smart but shy 8 year old girl that only Kevin understands. That is until she starts throwing a fit because her relatives are mean. She ends up doing the inevitable, "I hate you all" and Kevin stupidly says, "Maybe you should ask Santa for a new family." The family takes off for wherever, forgetting the daughter. She gets into a lot of hijinks. She even trashes Kevin's workshop... maybe out of spite. And then Harry and Marv show up, seeking to kidnap her to get back at Kevin. They stalk her and even threatens her before coming for her. Of course the daughter puts them through hell for as long as possible. And once again, Harry and Marv actually deserve everything they get. Long story short, Kevin comes home just in time to save the day. He punches both Marv and Harry out

Why do they want to milk this franchise TO DEATH

There's a lot of video game music in the background and I'm all for it. Ice Climber, Banjo-Kazooie, Yoshis.. you have good choices

19:45 Yes this confused me too, it looked like she was pulling out needles, but I swear I remember a later scene where it looked like suctions which makes more sense.

Dazz: lists different home alone titles Disney: write that down WRITE THAT DOWN!

It really feels like this was made by people who just don't understand Home Alone. They think that the only thing we care about is the traps when Home Alone is so much more than that. And what's worse is that there's literally no reason to watch this. Every other Home Alone movie is on Disney Plus so just watch 1 & 2 instead (hell I'll take 3 over this, at least that one had a likeable protagonist.)

I think you're the only one who didn't call Kevin a brat, or say he was wrong. He was being bullied. Idk how anyone doesn't see that but they see him as the problem.

I agree on the whole Max just thinking his families annoying. In the movie, each of his siblings gets an iconic line that drives him over the edge: Meghan: Oh, please. You're completely helpless. Everyone has to do everything for you. Jeff: Kevin! You are such a disease! Lenny: You're what the French call 'les incompetent.' 27:40 Buzz: Don't you know how to know phlem-wad? Please note that these are all basically their first lines. Their names are reveled within the first five minutes. Heck, even most of the cousins were referred to in this movie. I think they only said Max's sisters name once which is apparently Abby (definitely had to look that up)

I really felt queasy with these traps in comparison to joy and laughter in the original

1990: masterpiece 2021: just bullshit

My 9 year old nephew and I watched it for 40 minutes. He then got up and said he can't continue watching this sh*t anymore. I feel you bro

Not a reboot, but a sequel. The cop is Buzz McCallister, aka the oldest sibling of Kevin, and Buzz even mentions Kevin from the first 2 films.

I just can’t believe they got Aisling Bea and Rob Delaney. I mean, they’re so funny as comedians and non-children’s movie actors, but this is just… frustrating to watch and know that they can do so much better.

the slapstick and violence for this movie definitely sounded better in theory than in practice

Dazz you should review the move Christmas Break-in. Its basically another Home Alone rip off that is set in a school. Its about this one girl who is trapped in her school because her parents lost track of time while working. And so she has to stay at the school til they come pick her up but she ends up staying there for quite awhile. Then 3 robbers come to the school because they just robbed a homeless shelter and its snowing so they needed a place to stay because they are in a ice cream truck. Its also free on KZfaq with ads

Can they just get over the fact that home alone 1 was a once in a lifetime masterpiece and can't be remade

Flipping the script and having the film from the perspective of the people breaking and entering could have been interesting. We only see the family of the home being broke into from an outside perspective so we only see the public disarray and disagreements. The traps are a surprise because we don’t see them set up or triggered by the kid, just the reactions to the victims.

An actual idea for a home alone movie that could work: Kevin as an adult who is still immature gets left home alone by his wife and kid for probably some work reason, and Marv and Harry who are now old men break out of a senior home to get revenge and keven being a man child doesn’t realize they pose 0 threat to him now. And yes hopefully it would have all the original actors

Just watching this through the video is sickening. I love horror movies like saw and still am disturbed by how just violent it is. The way they made the attacks so focused and harsh instead of cartoony violence against characters we know are villians, I felt like I was watching a horror movie about a psychopathic child rather than a heartfelt Christmas movie :(

WoW, my sister was watching this and i was so confused what the hell was happening in it to the point i was searching up plot summaries, thanks this was very useful because when i saw the part when the two adults were trying to ask the kid to just talk i was pretty sure that max was the bad guy

So, after watching two reviews of this movie, I'm disgusted by the fact that the burglars are made to be so sympathetic and yet we're supposed to laugh at them being tortured by this house. Marv and Harry were assholes, so seeing them in pain was funny. If they made Max into a villain, maybe it'd be better, but this misunderstanding thing makes him unintentionally a jerk for torturing these down on their luck people who just want to get their expensive doll back. You can do a good sympathetic villain, but not for a movie like this.

"Hello. Reboots are symptomatic of a fundamental lack of originality in Hollywood."

Bro i can physically feel that lady's pain,like with the foot burning and then the legos. Like, when i saw that, i literally FELT IT. IT HURT