It really fails to recapture the greatness of the movies that preceded it. Nothing in this movie, from its attitude to its characters, resembles the originals. The new Kevin never even had a plan in this movie, and he resorted to such wimpy tactics as locking a burglar into an elevator, and using prerecorded messages to fool the others. The original Kevin hurled bricks and he laid complex systems of traps involving fire, electricity, and sharp objects.
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When the hell was Marv ever married? The jokes were lame and unfunny, and because the movie was made by Disney, there was also very little violence. Harry was gone, replaced by Marv's fat, whiny wife. The real Marv was a goofy moron, while this guy was a grumpy grouch (it looked like the writers got him mixed up with his partner Harry from the originals). Marv of the Wet Bandits was back, but he too was completely changed. Funny, I never remembered seeing that tradition in the previous movies.
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Uh, when the hell was the Home Alone series ever about divorce? At one point Kevin's father mentions that his family always stays up to watch "It's a Wonderful Life" because it's one of their traditions. His parents were now in the middle of a divorce, which was very painful to him. The badass Kevin from the originals was reduced to some whiny, 5 year old crybaby. The kid in this movie was Kevin in name only. However, Kevin, Buzz, and everyone else actually seemed younger than they were in the originals. I understand the use of younger actors, since the originals are now too old. It's like the writers didn't even watch the first two movies. They at least they got it right by using Kevin as the main character, but it was all downhill from there. I watched this movie only because I had nothing better to do, and I wanted to see whether this one would be as big a failure as the third.
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It's TV origins definitely showed in the poor production values and acting. Home Alone 4 came out as a made-for-TV movie, on ABC's Wonderful World of Disney. I didn't think the Home Alone series could sink any lower.
The franchise was pretty much dead with the aging of Macauly Culkin, and I couldn't believe this movie was even made. And instead of a simple story about a kid fighting off two bumbling burglars, there was some lame wannabe James Bond plot about international spies working for the North Koreans. Instead of being truly left home alone for an extended period of time, the kid was just staying home sick with the chicken pox. Replacing badass Kevin was a completely new, annoying kiddie brainiac. It was obviously just an attempt to cash in on the franchise, and resembled the original two in nothing but name. What little kid wouldn't want to be Kevin? Home Alone 3 was trash. Kevin got to screw around the house/New York, spend lots of money, watch violent movies, talk back to adults, and beat the bad guys. They basically played on every kid's fantasies of being left alone to do anything they wanted.
First, I'll give a little background about what I thought about the previous Home Alone movies: The first two movies were childhood favorites of mine.
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