The opening scenes of the first two Home Alone movies spend time on the McCallisters and what that family is like, so you know their faces, and you get an idea of how they interact. Let’s talk about this family I have no idea what this family is like.
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This movie stars Archie Yates as Max Mercer, a boy left alone by his family because he fell asleep watching TV in a warm, comfortable BMW (definitely no product placement here). Instead, the film’s idea of humor is the mom being casually racist to an Asian airline worker and then devolving into all of the jokes you have already seen before from a children’s movie. This movie really wants us to laugh at Rob Delaney punching a snowman and apologizing to it, but there is nothing remotely funny about any of this movie’s gags. Three minutes into the movie, there are so many failed attempts at humor and so much dead air that I was already begging for mercy. I went in with low expectations, and I still found myself baffled. But since Disney acquired 20th Century Fox and got the rights to this franchise, they decided to do what they do with everything: make a sequel. And let’s be honest: nobody on the planet has ever enjoyed watching Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House or Home Alone: The Holiday Heist. Home Alone 3 is only noteworthy for featuring a very young Scarlett Johansson. Those movies are funny, charming, and emotional, and they’re perfect for the Christmas setting. John Hughes and Chris Columbus crafted two classics with Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
So that leaves me with two questions: what the hell did I just watch, and why did I watch it? Did anyone expect this movie to be good? Negatory. This Christmas comedy (and I’m using “comedy” very loosely here) is a reboot/sequel of the Home Alone franchise, and this is Hollywood’s fourth attempt at making a Home Alone movie sans Macaulay Culkin. As someone who grew up with the original two Home Alone movies and watches them every year during Christmastime, I think we should legally classify watching Home Sweet Home Alone as a method of torture.