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Home Alone 2 - Lost in New York

Home Alone 2 - Lost in New York

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Popular sequel to the hit film sees another terrible family mix-up - this time Kevin is lost and alone in New York.

CertificatePG

Duration115 mins

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  • matthew, 16
  • 124 reviews

How Home alone 2 Lost in New York started the plagiarism of the Home Alone franchise

3 stars

20 Dec 2023

Why the movie title called Home Alone since he is in the Hotel and not Home. Without a further a do lets see if this movie is classic cinematic junk. Plot: The movie starts off with Kevin getting into trouble by Buzz making that pink ear joke ( Which is pretty funny) and we get to see the conflict of... oh it can't but any way the family heads off to Florida but Kevin ended up getting lost in New York... oh its the first one but New York. The scene of Kevin getting a conflict over his family doesn't make sense here because he dose nothing wrong with the family. You see in the first one he causes the family conflict because the family didn't order plain cheese pizza which annoys him and he thinks Buzz is insulting him by throwing up pizza and ended up causing trouble. Here its more like causing the pupils and teacher conflict, it would make more sense if the principal and Kevin have a conflict with his parents and Buzz and not the family. So Kevin ended up in New York which the Twin tower didn't aged well and Donald Trump is in this movie because at the time he owns the Plaza Hotel and he was included in case if you are wondering. Kevin get into the Plaza Hotel which he saw a commercial earlier Its weird that Tim Curry and Rob Schneider show up of nowhere and getting suspicious of Kevin being the only kid without an adult. I wish they are the villains of the movie and not he Wet Bandits because they could have an opportunity where they are secretly stealing peoples stuff and Kevin try to stop them by setting up the traps from the last time. In this scene where Kevin is going back to his traps how come did Kevin did not see his mother while she is right there at the house with all the traps! The trap! Again: Kevin is straight up a killer because most of his traps can literary kill the Wet Bandits! In the first movie yeah some traps can kill them but mostly doesn't kill them, I mean you can argue that "well Harry got his head on fire and Marvin got his foot stabbed" but that what happen and has an unlikely chance you can get killed but here all the traps set up doesn't make much sense since its not we didn't get to explore inside the house before all the traps get establish first. You can argue that the two movies are cartoonist but this is way too cartoonist because you see if you compare it to the first its not that cartoonist because its not over the top but here they take it to the maximum here and I think the scene is trying why too hard too be funny. I get the point why the Wet Bandits are getting so much slapstick because there are trying to kill Kevin and you can argue that "Well its like the Looney tunes antagonist where they get a bad ending", it only works for a cartoon not really for a live action setting. Some traps are reused from the first especially the scene where Harry got his head on fire and they went to the max on this. So I didn't quite like the story, THAT is the biggest flaw on the movie! The story is the exact same! Characters: I will give this movie this the characters are pretty consistent from the first movie and doesn't feel like they are completely different characters unlike most of Disney sequels why they change characters way too far (Cough Ralph Breaks the Internet Cough). Kevin is still the Kevin we know but its the exact same character arc from the previous movie how family is actually more important then you think, here its the same pretty muchly and they could have done so much more but no they didn't. I wish the Wet Bandits are not that relevant since in the first one the Wet Bandits are not that relevant. I don't have much too say to they other characters since the story is the same. I simply don't like we movies take place in New York because WE have seen it over a million times now and I'm just getting tired of it. Final Thoughts: Do I think this movie is classic cinematic junk? No actually its decent, its consistent from the first and as a Comedy its actually funny. Did it kicked started the on going useless Home Alone movies even the next one gets worse and worse? I would dare to say yeah it totally kicked started! Would I recommend this movie? Not really I would and always recommend the first one but if you want to see this sequel, sure go ahead. Conclusion: The one word I describe this movie is...unrelieved and that's describe the entire Home Alone franchise in general. Its unrelieved with its story and characters being the same and its unrelieved with the cartoonist trap scene.

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