Sensing a theme yet? You’d likely be correct if you tried to guess the plots of the fifth and sixth installments into the franchise. Kevin McCallister returns (played by a different actor,) and after learning of a criminal plot that none of the adults in his world believe, sets up various traps which ultimately end with the demise of the would-be evildoers. Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House (2002) once again changes up the backstory from the format that brought success to the first two films.
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Pruitt sets up a series of elaborate traps for the criminals, who are ultimately apprehended. After searching around the local town for the car, the criminals eventually realize that Pruitt possesses it and plot to recover it. A group of criminals hide a microchip in a toy car which, through a series of mixups, makes its way to eight-year-old Alex Pruitt. Home Alone 3 (1997) takes a much different approach to contextualization. So where do the movies that follow go wrong? The Lancer Ledger
Even if they take a scary concept and stretch it into unbelievable ridiculousness, they still succeed in being entertaining movies that encapsulate the holiday spirit. The simultaneous uniqueness and silliness of the first two Home Alone movies in the form of all of the aforementioned points help to solidify their reputation as Christmas hits. They tell a story of an unexpected young hero who halts the plans of two criminals on his own, and comedically highlight the potential situations that can arise from an eight or ten-year-old who possesses seemingly boundless financial means in a situation of newfound independence. (An endless list of “what if” and “how come” questions could be had about the young Kevin’s experiences.) But they are relentlessly entertaining, and side roles from actors such as John Candy and Tim Curry only add to the experience. These are movies which require the suspension of disbelief, to be sure. The robbers are successfully apprehended by the police through Kevin’s actions, and after reflections where Kevin comes to terms with his solitary situation, he is reunited with his family.Kevin sets up traps using whatever he can find in order to stop the robbers.The ‘Wet Bandits’ plan to burgle Kevin’s family (in the first movie, the McCallister house, in the second, the mid-renovation NYC apartment of his Uncle.).
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Home Alone and its immediate sequel, released in 19 respectively, are cult classics, viewed in many a family each holiday season.Ĭentering on eight-year-old (ten in the sequel) Kevin McCallister’s adventures after being separated from his family during the holiday season, the first two movies see Kevin rig various traps against would-be burglars Harry Lyme and Marv Murchins, who call themselves the ‘Wet Bandits.’ Though their settings are different (the first movie takes place at the McCallister house and local town, while the second takes place in New York City,) both share roughly the same plot: To know where the most recent movies go wrong, let us start with a brief evaluation of what the first two get right. So what is it about two-thirds of the franchise that is so atrocious – and what did the first two films do correctly that the sequels failed at? The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth (yes, they really exist!) installments see an extreme drop in ratings, popularity and viewership. Some fans are vaguely aware of the existence of more sequels in the franchise, but most haven’t seen them – and those that have seen them usually do what they can to forget. Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York are some of the most well-known and beloved Christmas movies of all time. ‘Home Alone’ with no Macaulay Culkin as Kevin just didn’t hit like the original two.
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