The main things I'll give "Home Sweet Home Alone" points for are trying to humanize the thieves and actually putting some effort into this reboot.
A few of them land well and provide real belly laughter. I appreciated how "Home Sweet Home Alone" leans into its silly gags. The film's humor definitely isn't its weak point. You just can't think about it too much, or it all falls apart.ĭuring one of Jeff and Pam's attempted break-ins, Max overhears part of their discussion about selling an ugly boy (the doll) and assumes they've come to kidnap him and sell him to a bunch of old grandmothers. Then they leave him home alone, and somehow in 2021 have virtually no way to communicate with him. The big family is going on Christmas vacation, driving Max crazy. On Max's end, the story is pretty much the same as the other movies, just without the family charm the McCalisters had in the first two films. Max "takes" the doll to his home, leaving Pam and Jeff to try and break in (awfully) and suffer through his (childlike?) wrath. During an open house, they discover an old doll in their closet from Jeff's mother that is worth $200,000 on eBay, enough to save their home.
#HOME ALONE 4 AND 5 PROFESSIONAL#
They're not professional thieves but lower-income parents who have to sell their family home after Jeff loses his job. Ellie Kemper plays a mother named Pam, and Rob Delaney plays her husband, Jeff. And thanks mostly to Joe Pesci, they provided so many laughs for the audience, that they didn't need a backstory or humanization.īut the script is flipped a little in this reboot. They were just thieves robbing house after house on Kevin's block.
#HOME ALONE 4 AND 5 MOVIE#
In "Home Alone," the movie didn't really establish any backstory for Harry and Marv. Though he lacks the heart of young Macaulay Culkin, "Home Sweet Home Alone" actually takes some of the focus off Max and places it on the would-be burglars. I thought he'd be awful, but honestly, his sass is pretty humorous. Devin Ratray made me chuckle with his two scenes.įor some reason, Kevin has been replaced by a British kid named Max (Archie Yates) in this film, even though it still takes place in Chicago. In fact, Disney even got the actor who played Buzz (Kevin's older brother) in the first two films to reprise his exact role as a police officer in this movie. Just in the first couple of minutes, "Home Sweet Home Alone" establishes it's going to be an equal mix of sass and callbacks to the (good) "Home Alone" movies. Maybe my heart grew three sizes that day. And even though I'll never watch this movie again, I can appreciate parts of it. So how could rebooting the franchise possibly produce anything good? Well, I'm surprised to report that although it's not a great movie, "Home Sweet Home Alone" gave it a solid effort. And the final two are made-for-TV trash that aren't worth the digital ink used to mention their existence on this page. Some of y'all may not know this, but there are actually five "Home Alone" movies.
So when I read that Disney was rebooting "Home Alone," you can imagine the skepticism that immediately blanketed my mind.
There's just a real staying power for them. I feel like since '90s kids grew up with these movies they'll always be part of the zeitgeist for us. At the top of the list? "Home Alone" and "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York." As I've gotten older, the holidays have come to mean less to me, but even I have a couple of must-watch movies. Some people celebrate the 25 days of Christmas with all their favorite holiday films ranging from "Elf" to "Miracle on 34th Street" (pick your version).
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