HOME SWEET HOME ALONE is a Disaster and I watched it so you don't have to 

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I hope the kid playing the main character doesn't get hate for this. He was wonderful in Jojo Rabbit.

The biggest mistake they've made was making the kid a jerk and the burglars the heroes of the movie. You can remake home alone. It's no fun watching good people getting tortue with traps. It works in the first one and the second one cause they are general terrible people trying to kill a kid and steal from his family so you enjoy them getting tortue by the traps

I feel bad for Archie Yates. He's so adorable in real life and he was great in Jojo Rabbit. It's a shame he was thrown to a reboot that nobody ask for

my favourite part of *Home Alone* is *Spike's Noodles* 😊

You know, the physical comedy in the original 2 worked really well because Harry and Marv were deliciously unlikable people. You love them cause they're hilariously stupid, but they're just evil and unsympathetic enough that it's cathartic and fun watching them get injured in cartoonish, over-the-top ways. In this new one, it's really hard to find joy in the cartoonish violence and traps because these people are sympathetic, they have a family and are trying to keep their lives together. Watching them get hurt is kinda sad honestly cause they are just an everyday family struggling to make ends meet, as opposed to two middle aged men with no real backstory who wanna steal things just to steal things (oh and then try to murder a child)

The whole problem and the reason for the low ratings is the kid is an antagonistic brat who is rude to everyone, Kevin was constantly bullied and had to stand up for himself but the kid in this is the bully. Plus watching Harry and Marv get trashed is satisfying, they’re bad people who have it coming. Meanwhile the people getting tortured in this don’t want to hurt anyone or are doing anything wrong. They just want their doll back to save their house for their family at Christmas. The films sympathetic characters are getting brutalized by a lil sociopath. It’s like a disturbing horror movie than a heart warming Christmas movie. Inherently flawed since the first frame. Then you add on top Disney’s gross display of greedy, this film will never be higher ranked, be viewed as a classic or have a sentimental attachment with anyone. It’s third crime, was the star of the movie was objectively more likable and loveable playing a Nazi Youth in JoJo Rabbit, figure that one out.

The reason the violent traps work in the original is that the kid is in genuine danger and the people being hurt are criminals with evil intent. He is justified, and they are bad. I don’t want to watch a movie where two kind parents desperate to save their house get injured over and over because of a stupid misunderstanding.

There's so many talented funny actors in this project, not that you can tell from this mediocre script. I hope that Archie Yates goes on to bigger, better things.

*21:54* what doesn't help is the fact that "You guys give up or are you thirsty for more?" wasn't scripted. It was a line that 9-year-old Macaulay Culkin improvised.

In theory I like the idea of combining the scary stranger who becomes a friend and the burglars but in execution, especially because 95% of the movie is from their perspective, it just makes the kid seem like an unjustifiably sadistic ass

How does this kid go from being a Nazi to a normal kid and become LESS likable? The thieves that get tortured with traps are the people you're wanting to succeed, that's the WORST idea.

The fun of the original home alone came from some bratty kid beating the absolute shit out of two burglars who serve no purpose other than to be placeholders in Kevin’s story. The soul of the movie was the storyline with the old man and the relationship between Kevin and his mom. This movie has neither of those things because the burglars are sympathetic poor people and there is no other heartwarming story going on.

Kevin was treated like garbage by most of his family, especially extended. Frank in particular. Some have even theorized that Frank was behind the Wet Bandits robbing the house. In the original screen play, Frank actually did hire them.

I also grew up watching Home Alone, but even though I enjoyed this movie, it would also simultaneously piss me off even as a kid. I HATED Buzz and kept thinking ''why are all of them so mean to Kevin?''. As you grow older you realize how awful this family is. I was always happy for Kevin to be alone at least for some time, because for once no one was yelling or insulting him for existing.

I maintain that Kevin McCallister became Jigsaw in another life based solely off his traps.

My 9 year old wanted to watch it at first but most the way through he wanted to stop. He kept saying that it was a big misunderstanding and they were not criminals, so why are they getting hurt.

The casting gives this movie such a surreal quality. Aisling Bea putting on a British accent will haunt me to the grave.

I did not like it due to making us feel bad for the people we are suppose to cheer to get hurt. The original ones worked on part because they were bad guys that were bad people. These people are just people trying to get enough money to keep their home and they are shown to be good people in a bad spot. Now I feel bad watching them getting hurt.

they should have had ryan turn out to be Kevin's son, and should have had them team up against mean kids who vandalized their neighborhood on christmas.

I watched this with my family on Thanksgiving, and I was so mad at every little thing, such as them not winterizing their water pipes, or how come this couple didn't INFORM THEIR CHILDREN THAT THEY WERE SELLING THEIR HOUSE. Oh, and the fact that the one family with the pool didn't drain it in the WINTER.

This reboot makes the last 3 Home Alone sequels looked like a masterpiece

For a solid 12 seconds I convinced myself Home Sweet Home Alone was some strange (amazing) Asylum culmination of Home Alone and the Netflix horror series Sweet Home.

not me falling in love with amanda for being the only other person to acknowledge the FACT that scream4 is the best sequel, after being gaslit the last 10yrs by fools who just don’t appreciate the MASTERPIECE.

You're not the only one with a soft spot for Home Alone 3. I remember watching that one a lot when it first came out because I had it on VHS. So, I have more nostalgia for it than the first two because of access. Even though I was old enough to understand the traps were dramatized, I still enjoyed the journey.

I totally agree with you on the “just because it’s for kids doesn’t mean it has to be stupid” front. It’s probably just my age, but when I was a child we had movies like Watership Down, the original Land Before Time, Once Upon A Forest, all things that (in my opinion, at least) are kid’s movies that can also be watched by adults. Obviously there’s also Disney stuff, which have always been family films; the first film I ever saw in a cinema was the original Lion King. But I swear there also used to be plenty of other family films to choose from. Now there does seem to be a big distinction between ‘family film’ and ‘dumbass nonsense only kids could put up with, maybe not even them’ and it’s sad. Probably because of Don Bluth studios going under.

In the original Home Alone, he just sets traps. But in this one, he legitimately tries to kill Ellie Kemper in cold blood with the weights on the treadmill. Lol that scene was uncomfortable as hell to watch

Amanda: "Is it more watchable than Home Alone 4 and 5?" Me: "Oh dear God there's a fourth and fifth one?"

Ok so I have no nostalgia for the Home Alone movies. With that in mind; The reason why I think this latest movie failed is primarily because of 2 reasons. 1: There are no villains. The burglars are trying to get back a doll they believed the kid stole from them. 2: The traps and such are e really realistic and that makes it unfun. I can look at someone slipping down the stairs and have vastly different reactions depending if they go "WHAAAAH!" or "owwwwwww". You feel me?

Despite having a father who loved Star Wars, he still let my brothers and I enjoy the prequels because we were kids and he didn't want to ruin it for us. My poor dad had to deal with us watching Phantom Menace on VHS so many times! 🤣

amanda you are extra unhinged in this video and I don't know if it's sleep deprivation from your neighbor or travel stress but it's bringing me so much joy

Richie Rich definetly deserves to be on the sequel list. Same premise, same main actor, even title translation here is Home Alone and rich/wealthy.

I’ll stick with the real home alone sequels aka the saw movies

While I admire them for changing the formula around by making the burglars sympathetic, and not really bad guys, you just want Pam and Jeff to beat the tar out of Max for attacking them, he's THAT obnoxious!

The budget for this movie is $18 million. That budget could've just given to A24 or other indie studio and have them make like 10 awesome indie movies, instead we get this.......

"But Consider This: I DON'T CARE" needs to be chiseled into a Canadian landmark.

Thank you, Amanda, for letting me know that there's actually 4 more Home Alone movies that exists! Can't wait to bring my family with me, so we can suffer together while watching all these garbage on Christmas Day! Merry early Christmas and much love from me and my parents! x (You don't know how thankful I am to know that there's actually more Home Alone movies that exists.)

I loved home alone 3, too. Like not as great as the first two but I still enjoyed it a lot as a kid, in a way it also felt like it had more consequences? Like the bad guys had guns, they kidnapped and gagged his next door neighbor and left her to freeze to death, it was fucking brutal at times

I’ve watched home alone 3 dozens of times growing up and then you said that Alex’s sister is scarlet johansson and I think my entire world just shattered. You dropped it so casually and my brain just froze for the next ten seconds. This is like realising Kristen Stewart was Madeline in Catch That Kid all over again.

I still love Home Alone 3. It's goofy but they're all supposed to be goofy fun movies.

Interesting choice to have the couple we're supposed to sympathize with break into this family's home while they're away instead of doing the responsible thing by getting the contact information of the mother, explaining the situation and receiving permission to enter their house to find the doll. Or, when they found out the kid was still there, try to explain the situation to him, instead of continuing to break in...

One thing you made me realize, is after the first two, the plots of the rest up to the reboot are all based on a mcguffin. As to the reboot, what’s not cool is the whole “struggling family” gets brutalized thing.

I think my favorite reboot was Ducktales. It gave us something new while staying true to the heart of the original. I loved it so much from episode 1 to the series finale!

Hey someone else who enjoyed Home Alone 3 when they were young. I thought I was the only one.

I wish it was McCauley Culkin breaking into a house trying to get a treasure in some sort of switcheroo situation and there's a kid who turns out to be the grandkid of the bad guy from the first one and he has to get grandpa out of the retirement home to kick Kevin's ass! home alone for the holidays: this time it's personal.

This film so bizarre to me. I don’t know what they were thinking when they made this. I cared way more about the adults than the kids, the script was terrible and it had none of the charm of the original. Plus Disney is all about ‘inclusion’ and being ‘woke’ yet given the chance (in a film like this where they could have cast whoever) and they did not care to make it any more diverse.

90 minutes of Pete Holmes being mean to children would have been an amazing movie.

I can only say " Children deserve good movies" at everyone who is like " But it's a kids movie, don't critique it!"

Nothing will take away from the brilliance of Catherine O’Hara and Macaulay Culkin. Our family is a Major Stan of the movie and the trailer made us go “Not this.” (It could’ve been SO much better)

I liked the first 3 movies, but didn't even know 4 and 5 existed. Lol The first three had some sort of logic behind why and how the kid was left alone. Also, Marve and Harry were genuinely irritating and scary, so them being beaten up is fun to watch.

My family bought that same sweater from costco 7 times.

archie is so talented, and was incredibly hilarious in jojo rabbit. honestly, i enjoyed watching this film with my family, however it very obviously wasn’t amazing. i never really liked home alone so it’s not like i was offended by the film in anyway. AND IT WAS SO AMERICAN (sorry), like there was no need for this precious bri ish boy to say ‘totally’ lmao bue

Can we also talk about the fact that they opted to make every effect CGI? There weren't that many effects, so it wasn't too obvious, but every single trap from the falling icicles to the sugar package slingshot were entirely CGI and it mainly bothered me, because most would haven been entirely possible to do practical. I'm pretty sure shoting a sugar package prop at someone would have even been cheaper than doing it in CGI. There was no immersion in the first place, but if I had been immersed, that would have broken it for me.

The first two had such heart and humor and this is a travesty of cinema

This one was especially fun to watch, felt like Amanda was on fire. Every hit was on point. You go girl!

I recently watched Home Alone 3 for the first time with friends over the holiday season and I had a blast! It was OK for the most part. I hated the second hand embarrassment. But then it went off the god damn rails and I had tears in my eyes. RC car was an interesting idea and I really like that the main kid and old women ended up bonding. I think it's a movie that I wouldnt have enjoyed as much without friends because part of the enjoyment was the bewilderment and laughter that happened when things went off the fucking rails. Also rat is best character

Sidney Prescott from Scream said it best in Scream 4: The first rule of a remake? Don’t fuck with the original. 🤷🏽‍♂️

5:50 "It makes sense for kids to like movies like this" Case in point: my deep love for "Jingle All the Way". I've realized now it's a pretty dumb movie but I loved it as a kid so it still holds a place in my heart ❤

I didn't even know that there were 5 Home Alone movies, let alone 6! I am seriously considering catching up, possibly with alchol at hand. I feel it would make one hell of a drinking game.

I like 2 better than 1 mostly because I find the "you've been smooching with everybody" and the shower hotel scenes hilarious.

DEFINITELY watching Happiest Season again this year. It and Netflix’s “Klaus” are my favorite Holiday Movie since “The Holiday”

Amanda, you got me through some really hard times. Thanks for just being you, and uploading some awesome content. You're amazing. I love ya.

14:40 I hate when these kinds of movies do this whole "Ugh, sequels and remakes are terrible!" whilst being terrible sequels and remakes, just because you acknowledge it doesn't mean you're above it, you have to actually do something productive about it! It's like if I went up to a random person and said "Hey, I'm gonna punch you in the face now" *Punches said person who complains about it* "Uh-uh! You can't complain because I told you I was going to do it so I'm now above your criticism towards me." It's like the makers of these movies are operating under that same mentality.

If you think the fifth one getting Malcom McDowell is crazy, the third one got Scarlett freaking Johansson

I love Home Alone 3 and Phantom Menace. They have their moments and there's nothing wrong with liking them. Even my dad who was a big Star Wars fan liked the movies.

This is Disney ripping off themselves (even though it's a fox property) like they were doing their own classics

‘Home Alone 3’ is actually quite fun! I’ve deleted ‘Home Alone 4’ from my memory.

I'm surprised you didn't mention when max brushed against his sister when walking down a hallway the sister tried to make it look like max was hitting on her like WTF

If I see anyone hating on the _kid_ I'm throwing hands. This ain't a threat y'all this is a promise,leave the kid out of it he has done nothing wrong.

Aisling Bea as a Disney mom is about as hilarious as Bob Saget being wholesome in the 90s.

“Look at me go with the vocab” got an audible laugh from me

I absolutely did not know there was a Home Alone 3, 4 and 5 movies.

8-bit Christmas is truly the real standout for Xmas films that were released this year.

I like to think that the Home Alone movies were a precursor to the Saw franchise.

I also think both the first and second has good side characters - the snow-shoveling gentleman and the ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL lady of the doves (pigeons) were both so charming and lovely, and in both they and Kevin grow and teach each other and it provides a lovely contrast to the main plot. Both of those actors did an EXCELLENT job, and yes Kevin was a jerk, but he was kind to them and they were kind in return. It ended up being a bit of outcasts joining together storyline. Didn’t hear any of that in this one. *doves are exactly the same as pigeons, just white*

I also really like Home Alone 3. It was the first one I saw and so is still my favorite of all of them

I actually really liked the third one a lot as well, when I was a kid! Though I had no idea it was connected to the Home Alone franchise since in my language it had a completely different, totally unrelated title

"Scream 4" is my personal favourite just because of that great and educational Sidney's line.

I’ll one-up you the recipe for disaster: my extended family and I used to ROADTRIP for the holidays growing up. granted, we weren’t quite as many people as the mccallisters, but still. nothing says holiday cheer quite like 10 humans at a constant state of almost killing each other in a van. good times

Getting away from having Sunday as Amanday, and I'm all for it.

I'm just in awe that they decided to make the thieves sympathetic. At least make them seem like bad people at first and then reveal their sob story if that's what you want to do, instead of immediately showing that they're good people. We know the scene with the traps is coming, how are we supposed to feel about them being literally tortured now? Marv and Harry were hardened criminals ready to murder a kid, not an innocent family struggling with their financial situation!

Disney would never use the old music to get some cheap unearned nostalgia, right? Right?

Part of what makes the first two movies so funny to me, aside from EVERYTHING about them, is how much couldn’t happen today. Running through airports? CPS not taking Kevin away for being left behind? DAMN, times have changed!

This remake is yet another example of Disney showing zero understanding of what made the original film so beloved. That a movie studio can be so utterly clueless about the properties it holds is just sad.

When you teased that there would be a surprise cameo from the earlier movies, I thought it was going to be Trump lol

Ok but having Kevin go into home security and pranking his brother who was a jerk every year sounded like actual good ideas to me that sound like Kevin would 100% do

This one is great it’s always fun and relaxing watching Amanda talk about literally anything

All of the Scream references in the review got me interested in a Scream review marathon.

Every year for Christmas I literally watch the Christmas story on Christmas Eve then the next day at the Christmas party

I completely agree with you on Home Alone 3 and 4!

They made the "villains" more likeable than the boy whose home was getting broken into.

Making it seem like the kid steals the thing from the poor people who then suffer at his hands pulls any of the joy out of the original. He was innocent in the original, in this movie, the main kid is the bad guy. We loved seeing the wet bandits get their comeuppance. But seeing some poor, decent couple trying to take back the thing that was seemingly stolen from them by an entitled brat is insufferable. At this point in pop culture, nostalgia baiting is the antichrist.

Amanda’s little dance as she cooks - to die for, too cute

My poor Yorki didn’t deserve this lame movie! Give Archie Yates something to fit his skills!

Love the plug for happiest season at the end, honestly one of my new fav Christmas movies (even if I kinda wish Kristen Stewart ended up with Audrey Plaza at the end)

The Star Wars prequels are not as bad as I remember them being. They were just really talky in the wrong way at parts. Also yes He was amazing in JoJo Rabbit.

A true Home Alone sequel would be an adult Kevin McCallister on vacation meeting the reformed Wet Bandits & they team up to help a kid or kids defend their home.

this types of videos of yours always make me laugh a shitton. Thank u for the banger content!!!!

This is one of my favourite channels. Thanks for bringing us fresh content.

i love you and i would watch your jojo rabbit video but i can’t afford to cry right now