Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Christmas Movies I’ve Watched This Week – 12/20/2020

A California Christmas (Netflix) – If you’re looking for a mixture of the emotional Christmas movie and the hot city person coming to the country, then here you go. Wasn’t for me.

A Puppy for Christmas – A ridiculously adorable puppy and a woman who does most things wrong and yet still stumbles into happiness. Again, wasn’t for me.

12 Pups of Christmas – Oh my fucking god this movie was a mess. The dude was horrible. The woman was cold and unemotional one second and screaming at someone the next. Her fiancé cheated on her with her best friend and she found out on her wedding day. Then she moved across the country for a job where somehow she’s the only person to make super, super obvious fixes to a dying company. Apparently, finding homes at Christmas for 12 puppies is a difficult task. Then her best friend shows up and claims that the ex-fiancé manipulated her into cheating. It was a mess from beginning to end.

The Great British Baking Show Holidays (Netflix) – I’m not sure why the Derry Girls were in an episode of this and frankly I don’t care. It was great.

The Christmas Chronicles (Netflix) – I thought I’d already put this on a list, but apparently not. It was as good as I remember and has become a yearly re-watch.

Die Hard 2 – This is as much a Christmas movie as the first one, though, not as good.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York – Another yearly movie that has a moment in it that I’d love to have edited out.

A Christmas Princess – I feel bad for the actors in this one. The story and sets were god awful. This was easily the worst sets I’ve seen in a Christmas movie. It was honestly worth watching just to marvel at how bad they were. The story made no sense, but at first glance you’d think it did. The only people trying on this movie were the actors.

A Bad Moms Christmas – This was pretty funny. I wasn’t a huge fan of the first movie and I certainly don’t have the same feelings about Christmas as these women do, but I laughed a lot. Do not watch around kids lol

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)

 

Home Alone 2

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)

Director:

Chris Columbus

Starring:

Macaulay Culkin

Joe Pesci

Daniel Stern

Plot:

One year after Kevin McCallister was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he accidentally finds himself stranded in New York City – and the same criminals are not far behind.

Review:

When I was growing up this was my favorite Home Alone movie. Kevin, Macaulay Culkin, gets to go to a big city, all by himself, go to a massive toy store, and eat tons of rubbish. Even as an adult he’s living my dream. Well, not really the New York part, but whatever, close enough!

Now, watching Home Alone 2, I don’t view it as positively. There is, of course, the taint of seeing Donald Trump in a beloved classic, but there’s also the fact that Kevin gets pretty extreme in his booby traps. Holy cow he would have killed the bandits many times over if it had been real. Definitely darker than the last.

I like to think that after this movie the whole family decided no more holiday traveling and they got Kevin the mental help he needed. Hopefully, he was able to live out a long, loving life, without needing to defend himself or his family from criminals that wanted to kill him. Who knows, though, maybe the Sticky/Wet Bandits broke out of jail again and finally got to seek their revenge. It’s not like anyone else knew exactly what Kevin did to them this time around.

4/5