The New Home Alone Is A Disaster 

This movie was written so badly, I have more sympathy for the ‘villains’ than for the protagonist.

The thing is, in the first Home Alone movie, Kevin didn't actually win on his own. The wet bandits actually caught him, and he would have been finished if the neighbor hadn't shone up to rescue him. At no point in this film does the couple turn the tables on Max. They just flail pathetically the whole time.

kevin was a brat, but he seemed genuinely scared, and grew more mature and likable throughout the movie. max simply needs therapy.

the part where the mom lays down and sobs was just heartbreaking all they were trying to do was save their family without hurting anyone and this little prick came around and starting setting them on fire

The original Home Alone worked so well because the buildup was executed PERFECTLY. The robbers were shown as goofballs who share one braincell and have comically absurd reactions to walking into Kevin's traps, but they're also portrayed as sinister criminals who take pleasure in ransacking and trashing people's houses, which makes it SO satisfying to watch them get outwitted by a child. This movie completely fails in that because no one wants to see individuals who clearly don't have malicious intentions get beat up by a spoiled rich kid.

This movie is actually about Hollywood finally admitting that they don't like poor people "Yes, we will torture this struggling family using cartoony sounds and slapstick comedy, and we are not going to apologize for it."

What bothered me about this movie a lot, aside from what's been already mentioned, is that in the original Home Alone, as well as Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, when Marv and Harry get injured from the traps, they immediately spring back to life and continue to chase Kevin down. They never get truly injured or fatigued from Kevin's houses of horrors. But in this movie, they actually get genuinely hurt and get slower and more clumsy as the movie goes on because the traps start to take a toll on them. Like when Jeff gets hit in the head with the pool ball. If that were Marv or Harry they would be like "GAH!" and then fall down in a very cartoony way, and then get up and say something like, "OKAY KID, YOU WANNA THROW BALLS? COME ON, GIVE ME ANOTHER ONE, SEE WHAT HAPPENS!" and then they would energetically continue to chase Kevin. But with Jeff, he looks and sounds like he's genuinely in pain. From the horrifying bump to "Why is he doing this to us Pam?," it's all too real. It's not funny, it just makes me feel bad for him, and hate Max even more. That's another thing. Kevin had every right and reason to be a cocky, taunting kid in Home Alone. He was genuiney bullied by the older kids in his family, got left alone on a big vacation, and then had to defend his house and himself from Marv and Harry, who, although may act funny, wouldn't think twice about killing him. Well, that goes for Harry at least, Marv might tag along but I don't see him pulling the trigger. Anyways, with all of those factors in play, it was 100% within Kevin's right to act cocky and taunting when Marv and Harry fell for his traps. Max on the other hand is an extremely spoiled kid who's only experience with "bullying" is having to wait his turn for the unspecified game console controller. Other than that, he lives a very easy life. He also has a way out of the noise, unlike Kevin did, in the form of that car. And lastly, he is extremely disrespectful to his own mom and is very arrogant to the real world, even going as low as to steal from a church. Kevin would never do that. All of this to say, Max has no right or reason of *any* kind to be as cocky, taunting, and arrogant as he is in this movie. His actions make you root against him, unlike Kevin's, who make you root for him. Overall, great review, and this movie sucked. The original Home Alone will always be the best, with Lost In New York being a perfect 10/10 second, only getting second place because the original takes the first place, but it is of equal perfect quality. Amen.

The reason WHY we rooted for Kevin against the Wet Bandits was because the Wet Bandits were actually awful people. Harry and Marv were actual robbers and we even see them scoping out the houses to hit to make as much money as possible. Heck, in the second movie Harry was about to KILL Kevin, and they would of probably done the same to him if they caught him in the first movie! Can't have any witnessess ratting them off. We also rooted for Kevin because while he was a bit of a jerk at times, he's no where as bad as his family. And he also had moments where he could be sympathetic to others like the old man and the homeless woman, and that allowed us to fear for him when these dangerous people were about to enter his home. We shouldn't be cheering for the robbers to kill a little kid and take everything he and his family owns. Honestly, the McKenzie's should of SUED Max's family for all the damage Max did to them!

The fact that we like Kevin is because he was introduced as a lonely child who has been left alone for Christmas by his family. He was funny, likeable and had real reactions a child would of someone breaking into their house.

“Haha, watching a rich kid beat up poor people is super funny, right?” -the people behind this movie.

As for the nerf gun trap, the pain is severe. I once had a friend who shoved tiny pins into his nerf darts and shot me twice, and the fact that Pam was shot so many times was terrible

I physically felt pain in the traps scene, like I can feel one of my organs shrivel up everytime I see a grotesque trap.

In the original, Kevin is a bit of a brat, but you understand where he's coming from because his family was usually mean to him. In this version, Kevin is a complete brat to his family, and you end up hating him more than the antagonists. Did Harry and Marv write this movie?

I feel like part of the reason we don't mind seeing the burglars in Home Alone get messed up is that they would absolutely kill Kevin when given the chance. Like, they're set up as pretty evil people (to an almost absurd degree), and based on their reactions throughout the movie (especially at the end when they do catch Kevin), you get the sense that the kid's life is 100% in danger if his traps don't work. But these poor parents trying to save their house? You cannot convince me they are any sort of threat, so the comical level of violence that gets thrown at them is just horrific instead of darkly funny karma. You also need cartoonish characters if you're going to be subjecting them to cartoonish levels of violence, and this movie completely fails in that regard.

im glad it was ultimately a happy ending for the family but this movie genuinely pissed me off. The scene of the mom crying almost made ME cry- this poor mom is just trying to feed her kids and keep her house and she's going through all of this shit for them, she probably felt so hopeless

A thing I noticed is. Even when this is a year old. Kevin's traps were always barriers to prevent them from getting IN. The hot doorknob, and ice? To discourage them from entering. It was always keeping them away until they got way farther into the house

I also think it's worse because in the original home alone, the burglars reactions were cartoonish so you never felt that bad for them but their reactions in this movie was just how a person would react irl. it's like if in the coyote and roadrunner cartoon, when the road runner squishes the coyote they show his funeral and his orphaned children sobbing, it's not fun when they make it even close to realistic

Seeing the mom cry like that makes me think there is something seriously wrong with the writers

God, can you imagine the board room meeting for this movie? “Now, listen. We all know that the last… two… three Home Alone movies were huge flops. But I’ve got an idea that’ll knock your socks off: what if, the movie is about a struggling middle-class family being tortured by a rich British child?” “Yeah, sure.” “Why not?” “What could go wrong?”

My griefs with this are as follows (forgive me for beating a dead horse at this point): The Mackenzies are good people who are trying to provide for their two children and take back what’s theirs, even though Max didn’t have the doll. That’s what the intent was, to make things even and help their own family. HOLY SHIT THE SPECIAL EFFECTS AND TRAPS. They physically hurt to even think of, as soon as Danny mentioned the nerf gun with push pins I had to pause the video to freak out. It was so disgusting to even picture, especially with the special effects. In the first Home Alone, we don’t see the Wet Bandits’ true reactions AFTER the traps. Even in the moment, their responses are comical because they aren’t realistic. Harry, when he burns his head, holds it for an unrealistic amount of time and sticks his head in the snow. That, especially for kids, is funny because clearly nobody would just stand under a flame thrower for 10 seconds and throw their head into a pile of snow. In this new movie we see them CRY and have REALISTIC reactions, and it feels too real, especially when these people taking the hits don’t deserve them. Harry and Marv were cartoon supervillain level evil, they deserved what was coming to them… mostly. I still can’t watch the part with the nail tbh (or the bricks in the second movie). The rich parents had one child in this movie. Max. In the original(s) Kevin is the youngest of a giant family who is isolated for bad behavior, and when the rest of the family gets frazzled, they forget to bring him back from his punishment because they’re too busy focusing on the fact that they’re late. In this one, the parents… forget their one son. Finally, it’s Ellie Kemper. Ellie Kemper! I could never root against her, even if her character was unspeakably evil. *TL;DR:* I don’t like this movie because the robbers aren’t mean, the SE and reactions feel too real, the traps are sadistic, the parents had no realistic reason to forget Max, and Ellie Kemper is too sweet to be rooted against.

The main issue is that they tried to make the burglars sympathetic so it’s not fun to watch them get attacked by the traps in the end

This movie feels like watching a court recording of a homeless person stealing bread from a shop, and the whole audience is laughing at the fact that he’s going prison.

"I liked the kid more when he played a nazi youth" is not something i thought i would ever say in my lifetime

The fact that the robbers weren’t actually evil hurt so much

This movie feels like movie executives saw the last 3 home alone flop and concluded that the problem wasn't that they were boring, rather that the villains didn't have a sad origin story.

I swear that the script of this movie was made by someone that was home alone, for authenticity.

12:14 He acts like Jigsaw from "Saw". "Well hello, no-income struggling parents of a family. You're desperate with moral reservations about robbing my house... You know who doesn't have reservations? My house."

I watched this movie almost exactly one year ago today(literally tomorrow is one year) and after I watched this movie and I got sick for 3 straight weeks. I got a Covid and flu test and I was negative for both. Almost a year later this video pops up in my recommended. I watch the first 10 seconds of this video and I see that you also got sick after watching it. So now I think that have to call this movie a disease.

This movie doesn’t even feel like a funny Home Alone Movie, it feels like just the writers made a movie for rich people to laugh at how much the working class is struggling to be finically stable. It’s just some unenjoyable horror fest that makes fun of families who are struggling to put food on the table. Not to mention they do it in a very comedic fashion to try and paint it as a funny thing.

I was rooting for the “villains” the entire movie. They’re genuinely good people who have been pushed too far.

Honestly the part about the family being really noisy and annoying and just the amount of people in the house making Max react that way is pretty realistic, at least for me, since I was just a little girl having a lot of people over on my house made me exhausted and I just wanted them all to leave so I can sleep

What if those nerf dark - push pin combo bullets got into her eyes. That’s called horror movie stuff, especially if they included realistic gore.

I think it's also worth mentioning that in the first movie, the robbers are bringing it on themselves because they could totally leave at any time. Nothing is keeping them there, so the suffering they go through is totally their fault. But if they establish that this family is going through financial troubles, and are about to lose their house, and they have good reason to believe that they're recovering their own stolen property that would let them keep their house; yeah no, they kinda can't just leave. It adds a greater weight of emotion to that scene where the lady breaks down in tears after being set on fire, it tells the audience that she feels trapped and has no other options; that those are tears brought on by months of stress culminating in maybe the worst night of her life. That isn't funny unless you're a psychopath.

This is a kid friendly version of Saw. Some crazy maniac convinced he's in the moral right puts people through terrible traps just because their life isn't perfect.

As a 42 year old with 3 kiddos I’m glad I watch these vids on occasion. No way in hell I’d let my children watch this movie (except when they’re old enough to watch a double feature of this and Die Hard). Probably wouldn’t have thought about it otherwise.

14:08 looks like a scene from hereditary what is wrong with these film directors

the producers behind this really asked “hey, is anybody going to horrifically torture these struggling poor people?” and then didn’t wait for an answer

As someone with younger siblings, I can confidently say this movie isn't even appealing to CHILDREN. My brother and sister were complaining the entire time about how boring and cardboard it was, and how annoying Max was. Even other eleven year olds don't like this spoiled rich kid.

The fact that at the end they are all friends and happily like eating dinner or whatever like wth-

Wasn’t the premise of home alone to root for the kid, this movie actively makes me want to have the husband just go up and kick the child

“am i supposed to be laughing right now? this is so sad!“ yeah honestly that’s how i felt this entire movie. it’s completely fucked

The worst part is, they weren't even trying to steal from the kid. They were just trying to take back what they thought was stolen from them.

It's no longer "Home Alone". It is now "Home By Myself".

The worst part for me is that I RELATE to the poor family. I'm 19 and I live with my parents because I can't even afford a house, all my money goes to my sick mom's meds, we have literally no money, we can't even afford food, we all selling our stuff to get some money, my father is looking for a job but he can't find it, I'm trying to work but I don't get enough, we are literally crying everyday and falling apart and seeing this movie were this poor family gets beat up because they are trying to get back something that will give them money is just painful.

When the husband was like "why is he doing this to us", despite being comedic I still felt super bad for them. They dont deserve it in the slightest.

"what would make the most annoying protagonist?" "Kid James Corden"

I just want to point out that the internet access is blocked page has a typo It says "my have" instead of "may have" 12:06

For some reason I kinda like that the big celebrities are insignificant roles. There's no movies with just anyone these days, and seeing all of the same people just feels like its for money (it is) and gets boring

These writers really saw all the people losing their homes these past couple of years and went "you know what would make this even more hilarious?"

One of the reasons I hate Max is because of the fact that he basically tortures the parents who is rich and spoilt whilst Kevin was just an ordinary kid in a large house with lots of family around him for his entire life, being mentally abused and told he is worthless, which eventually leads to him being quite psychotic but in the end he realises that actually he does appreciate his family. On the other hand Max is not in any danger (The Wet Bandits had the intentions of killing Kevin) and is more the antagonist than the protagonist. In the end Max is just a sick,spoiled brat who has been raised wrongly sp he doesn’t really care for anyone but himself whereas Kevin was just hurt and scared and abused, finally getting to let his anger out on someone.

12:20 I always get in a box under a box every time I hide. I’ve never lost a game of hide and seek.

12:52 did you forget that in the original one Marv stepped on a massive nail and it went all the way through his foot

I feel like the fact that more people have fallen onto hard times financially these past few years due to the pandemic and inflation and such makes this even more fucked up. The people who made this had to have known this and yet they did it anyway.

The original Home Alone was good because even though they had a bunch of “scary” traps, the robbers, who were comical antagonists we were all rooting against, had equally comical, unrealistic reactions. They would just scream or something. I forwarded my way through this movie because their reactions felt so much realer and I felt really bad for them.

The first two home alone movies were gold. I watch them every year during Christmas time. But as time progressed, after Macaulay Culkin left the cast, everything went downhill. This movie is just sad and disappointing. In the first two movies the burgulars were actually big time robbers, but in this movie the “robbers” are just a poor family needing something back what was originally theirs.

I love that macaulay culkin just tweets about his age to make people feel old He's 40

People give Kevin a lot of flak for his traps, but I think Max is actual psycho here. He endlessly (and needlesly) tortures poor people, exploits charity for his own amusment and laughs all the way. He's pratically creating his own Squid Game here

Remember in home alone when Kevin said he didn’t want toys and just wanted his parents? Remember in the second one when his motivation was to stop the robbers from stealing charity money and saying “you can’t mess with kids on Christmas” But nah, let’s have Max steal gifts for poor kids at a church. What a wonderful protagonist. Sure, Kevin was a bratty kid but he developed and tried to help others in both movies.

I choked on a pistachio at like 8 min in and Danny paused for a second like he was waiting for me to finish and then continued after i stopped coughing 💀💀💀

Kevin was our beloved main MC. Him being iconic for two movies is what makes them both so good, because he was a good actor.

this movie would work so well as an actual horror film that's just "this psycho child saw Home Alone and wanted to torture folks just like that" so he actually and intentionally stole the doll to lure them into his Saw traps

The dumb thing is that their parents forgot their only child. In the original the parents had a shit ton on children to keep track of, so their attention was divided amongst many children and its conceivable how one could slip your mind. But even with a ton of relatives over, if you have 1 child you are not going to forget that one child. I feel like this is stating the obvious but... this movie exists.

In the original home alone we never felt bad for the robbers because they were not only evil, but cartoony Even the traps that would realisticaly hurt them were brushed off after a few moments of screaming and exagerated reactions. The most permanent effect they had was making the bandits gradualy look stupider as they lost their hair, burned their clothes, etc.

Kevin is such an iconic character, that’s what makes home alone 1 and 2 so good, when they brought it back with different actors it didn’t hit the same

holy shit that scene where he steals from church is like,,, genuinely disturbing lol like ik kids don't always have a good understanding of what other people are going thru but the fact that he's THAT RICH and felt totally fine stealing toys from poor children.... like damn

"This is gonna be even funnier cuz they probably don't have health insurance" You pretty much nailed it, Danny, that's exactly what the writers were thinking

Danny was so right when he said that no one watches the Home Alone movies after #2

Home alone 1&2 are super good Home alone 3: WHAT THE HELL

The worst part of the crying in the show scene is how accurate the crying is. You can hear the slight stutter as they try to cry even though they aren’t breathing enough to, she also kinda chokes for a second on their spit because they’re laying down, which I can say is very accurate. Why did they have to do this.

That Nerf trap was pretty bad, but the most grotesque trap in Home Alone history is from the first Home Alone. Kevin elaborately puts tar on all the stairs in the basement, so one of the bandits is forced to take off his shoes and socks. Then, once he is barefoot, Kevin has a 4 inch nail pointing straight up to puncture his foot. How does a little kid even come up with that concept? There's so many steps to it

I didn’t even know there was a new home alone movie. After hearing about how for once the thieves were just friendly people in a tough situation I now just feel sad about this movie and what one of my favourite movies has gone to.

I feel like the writers of this movie thought "well villains with likeable and empathizable traits is good writing!" and then went ahead and did it for the wrong movie

This movie feels as though a disturbed, deeply traumatized child wrote it.

Part of what made the original one feel better, even though there were some graphic moments, was the fact that the Wet Bandits were actually out to steal from Kevin's house. They were designed to be unpleasant, legitimate thieves, so that we would root for Kevin, and laugh at their pain. They were definitely going to hurt Kevin if they got the chance, and they probably would've in the first movie, if it wasn't for the neighbor showing up. Not to mention, a lot of their reactions were overly comical, not realistic at all. This one just feels horrible, because the parents weren't trying to harm anyone or steal, they were just a poor family who were trying to get back something they thought Max had stolen. The realistic reactions to getting hurt, coupled with their already troubled lives, and the fact that they showed the mother CRYING... I can't watch this one. It hurts to watch.

10:48 it’s not even fun for kids. My sibling watched it said it was one of the worst movies they’d ever watched

This whole plot could have been avoided by a simple knock on the door

There's a major plothole that was never addressed, and it's kind of necessary for any home alone movie to work. It's a reason for the police to be absent. In Home Alone, the power lines broke the night before the Mcalisters left, and the telephone cables were broken until the story was almost over. This is important to have so the kid doesnt come off as either stupid or demented for making traps to torture a couple of burglars rather than alert the cops. Knowing Max, hes probably so deranged, he probably wouldn't call the police if given the chance.

When he cries, "Why is he doing this to us, Pam?" Like I legit felt bad. I wasn't amused, felt nostalgic, I just felt sad.

0:18 There's..... More than two? I didn't know that

Home alone 5 the most accurate denotation of class struggle since das kapital

This movie proves that horror and comedy closely linked genres. It just depends on the context and which side we are on.

The writers were like, “You know what would REALLY be a cool remake? Having the kid set up Saw traps on innocent, struggling people. That’ll do numbers baby.”

The kid who ends up being left home alone (Archie Yates) was Jojo's friend Yorkie in the movie "Jojo Rabbit". He was pretty funny in that movie and overall that movie is excellent. This movie seems dark. The first Home Alone had some dark moments. At the end Joe Pesci was going to try to bite off Kevin's finger before the neighbor clocks him with a snow shovel. The Wet Bandits being bad people was what made them getting hurt and beat up seem like a good thing. If the first Home Alone had extra scenes where we see Harry and Marv's families, who are regular people, and they are in extreme poverty in desperate circumstances then the movie would likely have a different feel to it.

i feel like no matter how confused and chaotic it is, you would still check to see if your child is with you. in the first movie, the mom thinks kevin's there cause she counts them and accidentally counts someone else. in the second one, kevin was with them till the airport. in the third movie he had chicken pox and she had to go to work and there was a snowstorm. in this one, he was in the car the whole night. i feel like if i didn't see my kid for that long i'd search. especially the night before a trip.

The most accurate statement about his movie I’ve seen so far is that the actor playing Max was more likable as a literal Hitler Youth

Actual dialogue in the movie: "No McDonald's for you then!" "Mum, you can't promise me McDonald's and not deliver!"

Yeah honestly i remember watching this with my younger brothers and not even a quarter of the way through the scene with the parents getting attacked by this horrifying kid i remember shaking my head and saying "This is bad... this is so bad" cause while i didnt grow up during the time that the original home alone 1-2 was made, i grew up watching them as a toddler and up all the time regardless of if it was Christmas so it was ultimately so disappointing that this is what they made for kids of this generation. The only hope i have when it comes to seasons classics is the nationwide standard held for it to even be seen as a classic like the newest addition to the Christmas Classic family, Spirited. I hope movie production companies actually takes the all around reaction of this movie and just drops the whole thing of recreating stuff and maybe just maybe makes a legitimately good new movie.

THERE ARE MORE THAN 2 HOME ALONE MOVIES? I THOUGHT IT WAS TWO AND DONE. AND NOW THERE'S SIX?

My friends younger sister legit CRIED when watching the movie. She didn't like the idea of some poor people getting tortured. Quote on quote "They didn't do anything! He stole from them!"

The first home alone were funny, the burglars were stupid, they would indeed do horrible things if they could, and it was just funny to see them getting smacked in the head with a bowling ball or something. But this movie is just demented and scary

best comedic scene ever is a struggling mom being set on fire and crying in the snow

In the original they try to make it out like Kevin has had this redemption arc because he's not grateful for his family, but watching it now you can see he's just an overwhelmed kid being bullied by his family. I think they were trying to make Max a bit of a brat so they could do that redemption at the end. I'm not sure they succeeded though, because y'know, no kid deserves to be kidnapped which is what he thinks is happening.

you know it's fucked up when you can't bring yourself to feel any empathy for the protagonist, even if it's an actual child.

Sympathetic and "relatable" villains are fine when you do them right, but if you do them wrong it makes the protagonist look like an asshole.

The part where the mom is getting pelted by soda bottles I'm pretty sure she was going to say that they just wanted to talk but was interrupted by another bottle he threw. No way in hell I'm rooting for the kid if the "villians" of the movie just wanted to explain why they were there in the first place and he's basically just torturing them for a misunderstanding

wasnt there an actual horror movie of kids doing home alone-like traps for their babysitter and her boyfriend? and the two kids doing the traps end up killing the boyfriend and stuff? i forgot the name of the film though

Watched part of this on Christmas. While Pam's getting hit with the soda-mentos bottles, she's literally trying to reason with the kid, asking him to hear them out and saying her and her husband aren't trying to hurt him or anything. He just straight-up ignores her :/

They should make a home alone where the robbers succeed and Kevin’s traps go terribly wrong.

5:27 “COME AND GET ME” “NOW FRÄULEIN” *”NOW”*

This is so sad when he said”why is he doin this to us Pam😭