Home Alone (1990) | Canadians First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | THE FAMILY IS THE WORST!!! 

Didn't a couple dudes kick down an old man's door and stab him to death down in lethbridge a few years back

Me, an American: Is that even a question?

I think burglars expect people to be home a lot more now, so I think it's less common. Also consumer goods are cheap, TV's are unwieldy, and cash is rare.

@@SnabbKassatheir is still jewelry and video game systems

That would be robbery murder moreso than burglary. @@jamescheddar4896

Yeah. I think they need to surrender their passports for that one.

And Catherine O'Hara the mother!

They both were stars on SCTV I guess before your time.

@@charlesgoin9136 - Candy probably died before either of our hosts were born. Might as well chaff them for not recognizing Diefenbaker.

Think the reason could be that these people are to young to remember John Candy.

Don´t forget "Cool Runnings". 😂🤣😂

Candy and Culkin were in Uncle Buck. Which by the way is a movie to watch too.

@@marcusthrun3887 feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme!

@@shawnspencer8766 Get on up, it's bobsled time!

@@marcusthrun3887 was just gonna say this... cool runnings what a great movie

My son was a freckled faced straw-haired four year old when it came out. All the neighborhood kids called him Home Alone for a while, and he would do the shocked hands up to the face thing. He might have been annoyed if it was some other nickname, but calling a four year old the Home Alone kid is a pretty high compliment.

The spider is loose way to go Kevin 12:15

Poor Kevin when he seen the old man he was too scared to buy that Toothbrush 13:32

Ikr, if only he hadn't been too scared to think of dropping it on a shelf before running out of the store, that would have saved him from inadvertently stealing it

As a child of the 90's (well late 80's) could agree more.

More brutal than the first!

Not going to spoil... and though 2 is a little "too 2" here and there, it does have THE funniest trap in ALL the movies. Possibly the hardest I've ever laughed in a theater and of course there's Tim Curry as the "Concierge." Actually, I think he's the manager, but the title fits his character. One of his best.

Nope

two words: Tim Curry

BUT don't go beyond Home Alone 2

To be fair, these two might have been very young - or not yet born - when Candy passed away in 1994 and perhaps their parents didn't introduce them to his works. When I look back when I was a kid, I never would have known how funny the comedy greats like Henny Youngman, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Milton Berle, etc had my parents not introduced me to their work.

The Great Outdoors...

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

The real shocker is they haven't seen home alone, terminator 2 or die hard. I for one don't believe it but anyways it's all good.

Don't forget Canadian Bacon.

Wallace (Kieran) is great in "Scott Pilgrim", steals the scenes :)

And he was 1 of the killers in Scream 4

@@BlackFire901 that was Rory. The youngest brother. Also, nice spoiler alert 🤦‍♂️

Also currently plays Roman on Succession

@@arthurd6495 who is pretty much Fuller

Not really, that’s peoples initial reaction but burglary isn’t a very common legal charge anymore in the states and the term has fallen out of common parlance.

@@markg1727 You understand the question though, right? It's the crime itself, not what's on the desk sergeant's blotter... oh sorry, they don't use blotters anymore, do they? On the computer.

@@Hexon66 My point is it’s much more common than the reactors think even in Canada but since it’s not commonly called burglary anymore people don’t think about it as much because no one hears the term commonly. Einstein

It's not hard to write mean people. He was a fad.

everyone is an asshole at some point in their life

​@@CheepchipsableIt helps if you're an expert to write bad people well, though.

oh, the easter-eggery

“Angels with Filthy Souls” is still one of the most convincing fake-movie-in-a-real-movie of all time.

Sequel 5, home alone 6 so Sequel 5.

@@SupergeekMikeDowntime Almost as good as the earlier real movie, "Angels with Dirty Faces."

Jean-Paul is correct, they lifted it from the similarly titled 1938 Cagney gangster classic "Angles with Dirty Faces".

She's so lucky to never have siblings.

I had 6 older siblings & this looked a lot like our house.

@@mrtim5363 lol right? Like dysfunctional families is normal, and being mean to the little one is also normal!!

Oldest of four and the only girl and we pounded each other mercilessly on a daily basis! I always thought the fact they didn’t throw anything or hit each other was because it was Christmas, they were going away and everyone was in a nice mood 😂. It’s all love 😉

@@A-Dubs398 Everyone says that to us only children lol. Always wished I had siblings though.

SCTV - Second City Television, Great Canadian comedy troupe! Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, Harold Ramis, Andrea Martin, John Candy, Dave Thomas, and Joe Flaherty! Loved the show! :)

Oh man, I completely forgot that they had been on SCTV together

John Candy cameo was as favor for the John Hughes ... John got paid very little for the role.

@@greggfla LOVED S.C.T.V as a kid, along wih Saturday Night Live and Monty Python's Flying Circus, my after-prime-time comedy staples. Maybe we can get them to watch "Strange Brew."

@@jean-paulaudette9246 Classic film! I still quote Bob and Doug to this day lol! I would LOVE to see them watch Strange Brew 👍👍

Lucky you! My aunts do NOT get along with my mom!!!

Pretty spot on here as well. I have 2 younger brothers and we never got along until we were in our late teens/early 20's.

Yeah that wasn't the case with me. My siblings all actually got along great until we all hit teenager years. Now at 30-20...we hardly speak.

Batman vs Kevin, with 24 hours of prep time, would be an epic battle.

@@kelleyleary7033 There's actually a decent fic on Ao3 where an orphaned Kevin runs to Gotham and uses his skills to make gadgets and traps, and runs afoul of the BatFamily. It's pretty good so far

​@@dorkandproudofitlink?

@@kelleyleary7033 kevin has more powerful prep time than batman

@@dorkandproudofitCould we have a fic name, please?

Yes. I would definitely recommend them watching the City Slickers movies (the 1st in particular) for more Daniel Stern.

He was great in Coupe DeVille, too.

@@ghiaman65 Yeah, I loved him in this!

What was the movie where the kid slipped n fell on his shoulder & as a result, he had this amazingly SUPER FAST baseball pitch & he ended up playing for the Chicago Cubs & Daniel Stern was like an assistant coach or an advisor for the team or something like that.......I loved him in that movie 😁😁👍🏾

Apparently, he almost wasn't in it. They cast him originally and then needed him longer than originally planned, and he wanted more money, and the studio said no, so he quit. They cast Dan Roebuck to replace him. But he didn't have the chemistry with Joe Pesci so they asked Stern again and he went back. Thank goodness

Right on about it be a live cartoon. I also think that the family's actions are shown through Kevin's eyes, sort of an unreliable narrator's point of view.

It's told from a kid's perspective. It all makes sense.

@@davidbeck7615 They're sheltered

I always bust out laughing at those outrageous traps; I couldn't tell if these guys thought it was funny because of all their cringing, but I guess they liked the movie.

Such a sheltered, naive little thing. 😂

Yeah, I had pretty much the same reaction...

It's Canada

I think it’s partially because “burglary” has fallen out of fashion as a term because it’s not a very common legal charge anymore, most people are charged with breaking and entering and theft or larceny…you really don’t hear the terms “burglar” or “burglary” (at least in the states and it varies state to state based on region culturally and the way different laws are written and crimes are prosecuted) much anymore

@@demianoff and?

Yes! Which actually inspired Home Alone

OMG yes. I looooved John Candy's laugh.

A great shout Michelle 👍 🐭 🚘😂…🇬🇧

John Candy not known in Canada? Lol

Good call! Also Stripes and Planes Trains and Automobiles.

They don't have the power to hurt humans much. Tarantulas kill scorpions, so we like them in southern Arizona.

@@billolsen4360 He has arachnophobia

Yes, that is true. There is this "feud" where people disagree on how they filmed it. Some people say he did a silent scream and added the scream in post and some people said he did scream lying on the floor. He literally said he just screamed after the spider was put on his face. I have the video on my channel. If you google it there are articles saying the scream was added in post but according to Stern himself he just screamed. He didn't mention anything about any post production.

Wow that is crazy!

And in Home Alone 2 the New York airport employee is played by Ally Sheedy.

Thanks for the Info ..... Ya Filthy Animal! ...... Ha!

Actually it is actually based on a real movie but it’s a parody of it so you are right in one regard. All the scenes you see are filmed specifically for this movie I am pretty sure but it is based on a real movie.

It is based on a real movie called Angels With Dirty Faces.

Joe Pesci was pretty funny in "Jimmy Hollywood" along with Christian Slater and Victoria Abril.

I 100% agree with this.

@@Rocket1377 Which is just the sort of thing Jigsaw would do...

According to the latest Home Alone, Buzz became a cop and Kevin crank calls him about a child left home alone as revenge.

How is that possible? John Kramer would have to been born in 1950-ish and this must have taken place in 1990? Also he didn't "plan" to become a killer. He was a successful engineer that went loony after his wife miscarriaged and he failed to off himself. You could say that triggered his serial killer persona. That's why I've never understood the Jigsaw theory. The end of Rambo 5 is basically Home Alone on steroids so if we use our imagination Kevin could have grown up to be John Rambo too.

It's not exactly a cameo since he has a decent amount of screen time and lines. This is more like a bit part. Sweet Potato Hitler's one-line-and-a-gesture role in the sequel is a cameo.

The main plot of fast and furious 1 was stealing DVD players. different world.

If you live in the wrong part of a city, burglaries are still pretty common. Several people I work with (but thankfully live nowhere near) have had their houses/apartments broken into in the last year. And things like laptops, desktop computers, big screen TVs, etc. will sell for more than enough money when you're talking about burglars who are living in poverty. Even if you only steal little things, the money you get for lots of little things adds up.

And I cannot believe these two Canadians don't recognize him!

I grew up in a rural area, and we didn't necessarily like the neighbors but also didn't need to. Once I moved to a city, it became a must to be friends with most of the neighbors

My neighbours are criminals that have mafia-like behaviour

Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine has a section where he's talking to Canadians about burglaries, and the common opinion seems to be that kids will be kids. There's also a part where he opens people's unlocked doors in Toronto and walks into the house. Most people basically smile and say hello, and nobody shot him. It's a strange foreign country with ways different from our own.

@@hamletksquid2702 Yeah I never thought it was that remarkable that he was able to walk into people's houses, since it's pretty common for people to leave their door unlocked while they're still at home and awake, even in the US. I guess if you live in a really sketchy neighborhood, one might be more inclined to keep the door locked at all times. What's a lot more interesting about that scene, as you say, is how chill people were about him just walking in and saying hi. I did some political canvassing a few years ago, and while most people were perfectly pleasant, there were a few houses where I was actually threatened with violence just for being there and knocking on the door.

My friend and I used to watch that all the time

That makes sense with the characterizations, but would have dragged the movie down.

No, the french airport attendant is not played by Hope Davis(@11:40). She does look a lot like her though.

@@georgeizcazu152 You are wrong, she is Hope Davis and accredited for the role in IMDB.

​@@gpaje Ok, I was wrong. I checked the IMDB as you said.

And I think that scene was shot in the middle of the night to meet the shooting schedule. What a pro.

They are supposed to be a cartoon version of a family told from the child's perspective. It's also used to explain why he wishes they would vanish.

Then you work alongside small-town cops and realize it's not an entirely unfair portrayal. A lot of dispatchers are pretty awful

I bet that they believe she's familiar because she looks like young Alicia Silverstone

@@JBWinter Some of those definitely exist in real life.

John Candy IS The Devil. Just ask Steve Martin...

Kevin grows up to become an NYPD detective - changes his name to John McLane.

Well to be fair, just cause they are Canadian doesn't necessarily mean they know him or of him, that's absurd. I have an uncle Mickey who lives in Tucson, you're from America right, you must know him... Otoh this is John Candy we're talking about here.... so oh yes to the rest (except the on your own time part.. they are always on their own time.. and we're not their bosses soooo....?) :) (And rest in peace John, we miss you buddy.)

@@TheMsLourdes Good grief, it was just a suggestion and no I am not American. I thought they might be interested in seeing part of Canada's comedic history.

And Stripes and Uncle Buck.

@@ronalddobis6782 sure

But the point is that the mother went through all that just to show up a few minutes earlier than the family. It's a joke

Stunt people consider stair falls to be one of the most dangerous stunts because they're so hard to control.

Usually you dont pick up too much speed as each step absorbs energy. And each impact isnt as brutal

Cool Runnings is a great movie.

You really can't go wrong with anything John Candy does. The man elevates everything he appears in.

....canadians

That question baffled me...

I wouldn't say it's looking into it too much, quite the opposite. Since when have people stopped robbing houses? lol

@@Milleniumlance That doesn’t make sense but I get you were trying to make a joke

It's hilarious you people tell them to not look too much into something while taking one throwaway question WAY to seriously yourself lol... Take your own freaking advice lol

True, but they needed sound-bites for the ads with the movie's title being spoken.

@@jean-paulaudette9246 true 😂

REVENGE!!!!!!!!!

As a kid in the 90s myself, the 90s/early 00s were when participation trophies were a big deal. (And the kids receiving them didn't want them; it was parents who were stupid)

@@JBWinter We did not have participation trophies, but we did have participation ribbons. 1st, 2nd and 3rd got trophies though. No one wanted them. if anything it seems worse because it just points out you didn't win. does not say at all that you tried. I walk every cross country I was ever in, yet I still "participated".

Parenting wasn't anywhere near this harsh/exaggerated in my experience, being a child in the 80s. The vast majority of parents were perfectly nice & caring, just not as overprotective or indulgent as they're perceived to be now.