Home Sweet Home Alone - Nostalgia Critic

[@ChannelAwesome]

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[@coolnerdlll6053]

Take it away, Mr. Potato Head: "Ha ha ha! Money, money, money!" (Even though only the first three were released theatrically)

[@trinaq]

Because of money, naturally. Buzz's cameo was the best part about it.

[@jimmyrossmeissl6644]

That and they believe we the people are complete chimpanzees

[@jerricablackcat4303]

Next year can you review Billy and Mandy Save Christmas?

[@jerricablackcat4303]

After 2 you would think families would be like "You know maybe we should stay home for Christmas."

[@victoriawhitcomb6475]

Alright, I'll admit it,, Buzz being a cop, Kevin being the head of a home security business and the idea that Kevin calls in that a child has been left home alone every Christmas just to fuck with him is pretty friggin funny and so petty I could totally believe them doing it

[@victoriawhitcomb6475]

@Raylan Givens that would be fucking amazing, oh my god!!

[@ddjsoyenby]

yeah that was a good joke ngl.

[@bZman]

Easily the only good part of the movie

[@alexandrajones4518]

@Raylan Givens Nice to see that a random person online can come up with a better movie than Disney.

[@hinasakukimi]

its as if they came up with the joke then wrote a movie around it

[@barbiquearea]

One of the main problems I had with this movie is that, in the original Kevin had many siblings and cousins as the McCallisters are a big family. This compounded by the fact that the neighbor's kid came by and they mistaken him for Kevin during headcount as the family were rushing to get to the airport in the morning, made it believable that they could easily have forgotten about him until they reached the airport of their vacation. However in this movie Max is an only child. For his mum to not notice his absence was complete negligence of her as a parent. Also Max being "home alone" doesn't have the same effect as Kevin who having to grow up with many siblings meant he was never home alone before. Hence getting the house to himself for the holidays made the whole experience very unique and zany.

[@DuneStone6816]

Not entirely accurate. Max has one older sister. And it wasn’t exactly his mom who left him behind. His parents left ahead of most of the family. It was a few aunts and uncles who forgot Max. Perhaps the fact that these things weren’t clear goes to show how poorly the characters are established.

[@bZman]

My god you put more interest and effort into this analysis than the creators did in the entire “film”

[@Raximus3000]

I think the reason is the twisted morality and moral decay that has happened from the 90s.

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

@Raximus3000 WTF that's supposed to mean?!

[@Raximus3000]

@@ExtremeMadnessX Really?! Let me put it like this forgetting one kid when you have to deal with a dozen in the 90s is the same as forgetting your one child today. In short in the OG it is kinda understandable in this one it is monsterous but because morals have gone to hell it is okay and funny!

[@van8ryan]

I was literally talking about this movie to a co-worker. All she could say was............"SIX???? THERE'S SIX????!!!!" (she's 19 and apparently had hope for the world)

[@trinaq]

Agreed, I couldn't believe that there's six myself, and only three were released directly to theatres.

[@eddieolshefski6467]

You would think after the 3rd one they would stop. Nope. Not this series. I reacted the same way last year when I looked on Disney+ for Christmas movie binge watching. I told my brother and he was shocked as well.

[@wolfkniteX]

Better to shatter that hope now than let her get disappointed later on.

[@conduit64]

It's good to crush all hope for the world when they're still young.

[@lunarlight3131]

a female co-worker?

[@TheKaiTetley]

Home Alone 11: A loan Too Far Home Alone 12 : Lone Another Day Home Alone 13: Loan Harder Home Alone 14: Alone With a Vengeance Home Alone 15: Alone In Space Home Alone 16: A Loan In The Hood Home Alone 17: As Lonely As A Cloud See, the franchise has legs. Plenty of sequel ideas.

[@darthhauler9947]

And for that SJW version that's bound to come out, Home Alone: Black Snake Lone

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

@darthhauler9947 Some troglodytes still use "SJW" in argument unironicaly... also, I'm pretty sure that "woke" is more popular term now...

[@skootergirl22]

@@darthhauler9947 CGI aswell

[@skootergirl22]

Home wars

[@lutherheggs451]

Cool story bro.....Oh wait Fox milked Home Alone for FIVE sequels out of six movies....Disney made ONE movie for Disney+

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

I can't wait for Home Alone 10: Lost in Space fighting evil Curious George.

[@jareththegoblinking3191]

Yea, the kid is left abandoned on a space station while everyone else goes back to Earth and an intelligent chimp onboard the station tries to move the station further away from Earth

[@FreddyKrueger744]

Home Alone 10 sounds entertaining lol

[@robertdetres747]

I can’t wait for Home Alone 20: Adult Kevin vs Elderly Marv and Harry

[@GavinLepley]

I'd pay $1,000 dollars to watch Home Alone 10 if that's the premise.

[@mikle2129]

@@robertdetres747 by that point they’ll be robbing other elderly people of their pensions because they have none and Kevin has to try and stop their scheme

[@RG-zt4ox]

If they make another I just want a full grown Macaulay Culkin redoing everything with the original actors being the original characters but now old and doing the same things

[@MrIAMNOTANOOB]

Or maybe he has kids and they learn from their dad.

[@coolnerdlll6053]

No, it has to be a full Saw parody where he makes Harry and Marv go through Jigsaw-esque versions of the old traps.

[@erickamakeeaina1649]

Or he's mentoring another kid in protecting their home

[@samuelbarber6177]

I don’t know if that’s possible unless Joe Pesci gets an army of stunt doubles.

[@kingsleycy3450]

I don't know if this comment is sarcastic or not, but Joe Pesci is so old now he can't climb a trap-less staircase.

[@joyunicycle]

To quote my coworkers and managers: “Why can’t they let a good thing die?”

[@jasongradyphstiger6179]

Yeah I prefer watching the 3 home alone films yes I said 3 even everybody knows that the 3rd 1 is bad I like it.

[@crazyshark9518]

Because the difference between most Hollywood studios and pimps now a days Is practically Irrelevant, as long as one of their "products" is marketable they will both whore it out for every penny it's worth.

[@louisduarte8763]

To paraphrase Bane from The Dark Knight Rises, "Once your profitability and popularity have been reduced to ashes, then do you have my permission to die."

[@sharkanenoa5928]

MONEY

[@Hufflepuffozian]

Because home alone is an easy cash cow it’s like Jurassic park, if you wave shiny keys or at least something shiny at people they’ll snatch it up

[@Spectahman2.0]

This is the only time where the Kid beating up the criminals looks like a horror movie since they're actually good people.

[@bZman]

The kid is so loathsome that two people who met him once assumed he stole from him. Great protagonist. It is the quality of modern Disney, absolute garbage that makes you lose hope in humanity. Merry christmas, happy new year, and pray to god the concept of heart and passion can return to film.

[@dylansharp8471]

@@bZman Jeez dude, that's just exaggerating hard.

[@eduardomatosdanesemunhoz3034]

Kevin: a charismatic and memorable kid The kid here in this movie: An generic British kid.

[@ponygon777]

Home Sweet Home Alone is like if they remade the first movie but Harry and Marv were just some homeless guys looking for food and a place to stay. It's hard to believe Home Alone has been rebooted FOUR times yet they keep getting worse and worse.

[@ddjsoyenby]

agreed, what made the traps funny is that the bandits are cartoonishly evil so you didn't feel bad for them.

[@wellwellywellswweellllswel1939]

Well technically it was only rebooted 3 times, that's still too many

[@Kaimax61]

tbf, they almost made Harry and Marv sympathetic in a deleted scene. They decided to cut it because they understood that it would be funnier if we don't sympathize with the bad guys.

[@mrcritical6751]

@@Kaimax61 yeah Harry was meant to have a monologue about how crappy people are around Christmas and how the spirit was dead

[@skootergirl22]

The house of mouse just milked the franchise and dumped suger on it

[@trinaq]

Since we spend more time with Pam and Jeff than we do with Max, you can't help but feel sorry for this nice couple who are just trying to save their house. Max seems like a brat for attacking them, and while Kevin could be jerky as well, he still wanted to get back to his family.

[@chums9717]

we send more time with Pam and Jeff because there the main characters of the movie. Max is supposed to be the antagonist

[@bZman]

This entire movie is entirely based on the kid being such a memorable little shithead that the parents thought he stole it from them. He is that awful and memorable that they were able to hunt him down. In the original it was just crooks robbing empty homes. In this its a couple in dire straights hoping to regain their property and the kid was such a turd they immediately assumed it was him.

[@dislike_button33]

Nice? Pam is an abusive partner.

[@bZman]

@@dislike_button33 oh yes, such an abusive partner to want to try and save their home.

[@slayer0235]

Because Disney execs think beating up the poor is the height of comedy? I don't know, I've got nothing else.

[@BrandontheBeldam2993]

In an alternate reality, I would like to see that warm embrace of Kevin and the wet bandits at the end. Maybe the McCallister's could've given Harry the warm Christmas he hasn't had since '69 and Marv could've carved the roast beast.

[@coolnerdlll6053]

I'm not gonna lie, when they announced this movie, I was kind of excited. Then I saw the trailer and realized "Nope, I'm skipping this". From what I've heard, I made a smart choice.

[@thecunninlynguist]

You were excited? Lol

[@coolnerdlll6053]

@@thecunninlynguist Maybe optimistic is a better word. If it had been in the right hands, this could have been halfway decent.

[@trinaq]

Precisely, I'd say that you dodged a bullet.

[@thecunninlynguist]

@@coolnerdlll6053 fair enough, and I don't disagree. Violent night is a good homage to home alone...so I could see a reboot like that

[@CesarACastillo]

Unpopular opinion but I kinda liked this movie it could’ve definitely been even better than the first home alone if handled correctly but I still enjoyed watching what we did get

[@Max-ej4oh]

I want a home alone, with Culkin being the bad guy, or the father.

[@ValKob]

Talkboy voice: "The faaathheerrrrrr"

[@klimmr]

I think that's what this movie was trying to do. Flip the script so that the burglars are the protagonists and the kid is the antagonist. It just failed as hard as the movie, Maleficent.

[@skootergirl22]

I've seen him on a alexa ad

[@wajikuroki4177]

He becomes Saw lmao

[@jordanread5829]

@@klimmr I agree this is probably what they were going for. Hence why so much focus was on the family having to sell their house and trying to get the doll back.

[@BabyKee]

I'll never forget that scene in this movie where one of the characters literally said a line about "why they always remaking the classics, never as good as the originals" WHILE being in a sequel to a franchise that hasn't been new since the second movie

[@thecunninlynguist]

Don't forget it was in context of angels with filthy souls. The saddest part is I bet the writers thought they were so cute and clever winking at the audience

[@trinaq]

Precisely, they were trying to be meta, but it just seemed too forced.

[@silverbolt9439]

Yup Transformers age of extinction is one of those lol, in the theater scene "nowadays movie releases are just crappy remakes or sequels" ironic.

[@biraptor6205]

I think the writer has the memory of a goldfish

[@coolnerdlll6053]

@@thecunninlynguist They should have just made a full Angels With Filthy Souls movie instead of Home Alone. That could have been awesome.

[@alibrennan5977]

My guess is that Disney seems to HATE villains now. Like they’re afraid a bad guy trying to hurt the protagonist like in the first films will scare little Timmy like they don’t know bad guys actually exists in this world

[@Craxin01]

Hell, even the villains they are willing to make into horrible monsters, they give a backstory to so as to make them sympathetic. Sure, villains don't need to be one note, but making them sympathetic makes the hero less heroic.

[@angrynoodletwentyfive6463]

This isn't really a movie that is targeted towards little kids so the idea that they are doing something to try to avoid scaring an audience they aren't really going for in this case is a bit dumb. Honestly i think the reason Disney has stopped doing actual villains has more to do with adults than children, People tend to be very very vocally critical of a Disney movies' "villain" more so than almost any other aspect. I think it is just easier for them to try to write a movie without a villain or where the villain isn't actually a villain than to risk creating a villain audiences don't like. because if they create a villain audiences don't like that is the only aspect of the movie people are going to be talking about, and even if some audiences like the villain their is always going to be somebody else that doesn't. I mean in this case you kinda need a villain but in the other cases they are high risk low reward with the way audiences have been reacting t villains lately where the standards for a "good villain" are just set to rediculous level.

[@Craxin01]

@@angrynoodletwentyfive6463 Better to have a villain nobody likes than an obnoxious "hero" nobody can stand.

[@dylansharp8471]

@@Craxin01 "but making them sympathetic makes the hero less heroic" May actually depend.

[@Craxin01]

@@dylansharp8471 Do you think a hero beating up on a victim of circumstance is particularly heroic?

[@mindscan420]

Violent Night is the true Home Alone new sequel 😌

[@ArmiGirl90]

Funny how he mentioned in Scrooge that there should be violent Christmas movie

[@GBmovieluv]

Violent Night does look like a worthy Home Alone sequel

[@mrcritical6751]

Hey at least it’s realistic in what would actually happen, traps would either not work or the criminals would end up dead from them

[@BlueBlazeKing]

I feel it’s more of a more Christmasy die hard

[@lightexpelsdarkness5188]

The problem with the scene at 7:35 is that the song was used to help emphasize that Kevin missed his family, not ponder on memories because it's called somewhere in my memories and that its nostalgic.

[@lihoffman8157]

They even got the farmer guy to play the composer there.

[@Insane234]

They really should make a Home Alone with Kevin as the dad who legit trains his son in how to make traps like he did. Maybe have a family grudge by having the relatives of Harry and Marv try to break in.

[@BugsyFoga]

No better way to end the year than with the latest entry in the home alone franchise.

[@trinaq]

Agreed, it's a movie that doesn't really need to exist, but only does because of money, naturally.

[@GBmovieluv]

What's going to happen when there needs to be another movie at this point?

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

This film series is like what happen if Bambi's Mother didn't die and just hanged around limping for 5 more films

[@postersandstuff]

they also only made 6 Police Academies (#7 doesnt count , it never happened , mkay :P

[@theAlicat94]

Doug snuggling with Buster while crying is adorable.

[@sillygrl23]

Agreed, I wish my cat would let me hold her like that if I was ever crying for real. XD

[@broEye1]

I love the look on Buster's face, like "why did I choose this human again?" That's the face of a cat that has completely resigned himself to his fate.

[@Fatelipe]

Money 🤑

[@masonasaro2118]

I mean, that's pretty much how anyone who Collabs with him nowadays looks post-not-so-awesome

[@mas8705]

I think this was on last month’s Disney showcase and I remember learning about this film and questioning the “why?” Honestly the formula would have been recycled yet again, but when you change it to “people trying to not lose their home,” you have to question why the hell all of this is happening as opposed to just “stop burglars.”

[@hobbitfan8686]

What a great way to end all the Christmas reviews of the year! You chose some great Christmas movies & tv specials! Can’t wait for the upcoming reviews in 2023! Keep it up!

[@patrickzalatoris3206]

I'm still crossing my fingers that one of these days he does caspers haunted Christmas review

[@LargeAmoeba]

I still want to see him tackle "8-bit Christmas" is it perfect? No. But it's the only recent Christmas movie I've seen that actually has a good lesson about Christmas.

[@joyunicycle]

What I say about Home Alone 6: “Guys I’m eating junk and watching rubbish! You better come out and stop me!”

[@starlightart5147]

This is still a highlight of my week, and I wanna thank you for that doug. I know people nowadays call you corny but I honestly love that- I love how you do your own thing and don’t give a crap. Also chaplin and buster are adorable Thank you for doing what you do for so long and for your whole crew bringing joy to me for years

[@bZman]

Amen, i look forward to a new nostalgia critic every week. I have been watching for forever and always enjoy them. Merry christmas and happy new year my friends!

[@geardog24]

Maybe this Home Alone finally realizes that a child who is smart enough to set up deadly boobie traps might actually be the bad guy all along.

[@6oclocknewsat8]

Have you ever noticed People Under The Stairs is kinda like that?

[@GBmovieluv]

It does seem like where the Saw Theory comes in

[@dylansharp8471]

@@GBmovieluv The what?

[@GBmovieluv]

@@dylansharp8471 I saw a theory floating around that Kevin grew up to be Jigsaw

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

Honestly at this point i'm pretty sure this franchise will never end and just last until the end of time and space

[@MusicalJourneysThruCinema]

On the somewhat brighter side, if you look at the release dates for Home Alones 4-6, there's only one released every decade. With our luck, we won't get Home Alone 7 (God forbid) until somewhere around 2031

[@ryanmorejon5813]

This was an absolutely perfect way to end December for the Nostalgia Critic and I can't wait to see what you guys have planned for next year and I wish you and your family a Happy New Year ❤️

[@jeremyadler9620]

I have to defend Home Alone 3. Sure, it has its issues, like calling the police one too many times, and I can see how others might find the villains a bit TOO cartoonish, but I still have a soft spot for it. The villains, while cartoonish, ARE fun. Alex is a likeable kid and his family is fine. The traps are lots of fun. Honestly, that's my favourite part of the film. They're just SO GOOD! Also, the music is REALLY good here! Probably my favourite out of all of these films. May be just me, but those are my thoughts :)

[@adu1991]

Yeah, there's that, and....the irony of Scarlett Johansson's calling Alex a "hero" at the end of Home Alone 3, when the actress would become part of the Avengers several years later ;)

[@jeremyadler9620]

@@adu1991, Yeah, that's definitely funny in hindsight! Sometimes I wonder if ScarJo has been asked about Home Alone 3 in interviews. I'd be curious as to what she'd say about the experiences these days.

[@deshawnedwards6412]

An Nostalgia Critic review on a Wednesday? What a unexpected turn of events. I LOVE IT!

[@klimmr]

You haven't seen a Nostalgia Critic review in a while, have you?

[@DoodleThis]

You know the director of the first two Home Alone movies originally wanted to shoot HA2&3 back-to-back. I’m honestly curious to know what HA3 would’ve been like with the OG Cast

[@SweenyTodd98]

It's definitely an odd decision to essentially make the kid the bad guy this time. Cause for most of the movie it's just watching this couple getting tortured while trying to claim property the kid stole. Yeah, the kid didn't end up having the doll but we don't know until the end of the movie. Until then the kid is essentially the villain.

[@Hufflepuffozian]

“Oh don’t pretend your home alone. I mean I know your technically home alone but don’t pretend your home alone” that got a chuckle out of me

[@sasir2013]

you're*

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

This film is like what would happen if Frosty the Snowman gotta a sitcom family show and only did fart jokes

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

You know even the Joker would probably hit this franchise with a steel chair until it bleed to death

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

Fun Fact: Chris Columbus, director of Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), had the following to say when the topic of this reboot came up during an interview while promoting The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two (2020): "Nobody got in touch with me about it, and it's a waste of time as far as I'm concerned. What's the point? I'm a firm believer that you don't remake films that have had the longevity of Home Alone. You're not going to create lightning in a bottle again. It's just not going to happen. So why do it? It's like doing a paint-by-numbers version of a Disney animated film - a live-action version of that. What's the point? It's been done. Do your own thing. Even if you fail miserably, at least you have come up with something original."

[@postersandstuff]

id like to see animated Jaws mini series , i think it could have potential or a proper follow up to TX Chainsaw albeit animated

[@jonathanwagner8289]

What I thought was crazy was how like the original it was about mom getting back to her son. But there was also the dad we see trying to call for help. In this one the father is on the toilet when arguing about the kid missing and we never see him again until the Xmas dinner in the very end.

[@IanTheMotorsportsMan_YT]

What a way to end the 2022 season of Nostalgic Critic. On to 2023!

[@SupermarketSweep777]

Home Alone 3 really isn't that bad. It falls in that weird guilty pleasure category.

[@DoodleThis]

Thank you! I was starting to think I was the only one who enjoyed HA3

[@bendalymckenna6271]

I enjoy Home Alone 3 as well as 1 and 2. But Home Alones 4-6 is awful.

[@bigbay1159]

For you....many think the movie is shit

[@liampatrick3110]

@@bigbay1159 To each their own!

[@cookiesontoast9981]

I wouldn't say the third one is bad at all. Sure the parrot and rat are silly.. but aside from that? I don't see how it's any worse than number 2. Well... sure I do prefer 2, but 3 is not bad. The kid is actually way smarter and kinder than Kevin too. Again I do prefer Kevin, but the kid from 3 makes some good decisions.

[@lihoffman8157]

You know I really want you to review Klaus or Pinocchio but that's going to have to wait a while now.

[@elder-woodsilverstein7716]

I would love to see him tackle Klaus. Hopefully in a positive review.

[@BP-dn9nv]

I want to see his opinion on Kurt Russell's Santa in Christmas chronicle

[@bubbarazz2294]

Honestly I love the first 3 home alone movies because the have the best traps

[@GBmovieluv]

Some of the traps in Home Sweet Home Alone were creative I'll give the movie that. There were ones I cringed at and enjoy. Like how it looked as though he switched up the toy cars for Legos and the darts

[@howardmctroy3303]

What a pleasant surprise, I wasn't sure how much more Christmas content to expect from NC.

[@rckblzr]

Every Wednesday each December

[@SweenyTodd98]

7:26 Honestly "Pam-a-lama-ding-dong" just makes me think of 'The Office. Which further makes me realize how weird it is to see Erin from the Office now playing someone named Pam.

[@TheRickyJZ]

Hell yeah, I was hoping he’d get around to this one. Completely misses what made the original so fun by trying to make the “robbers” sympathetic.

[@harrisonho8934]

I've said this numerous times before and I'll say it again, the big problem in this movie for me, personally, is the fact that they made the "bandits", Pam and Jeff, more sympathetic and relatable than the "protagonist", Max, that you end up rooting for THEM instead of him. Unlike the villains from the other movies, Pam and Jeff were just trying to get a doll, which was THEIRS to begin with, in order to sell it just so that their kids can have a place to live. As a result of this, when I see them get tortured by the traps, I can't find it funny. It's like with Plankton in One Coarse Meal. Mr. Krabs torturing Plankton is unfunny, as he DOES IT EVEN WHEN PLANKTON STOPS STEALING THE FORMULA. The fact is, watching a character get tortured is unfunny if they didn't completely deserve it. At least in the previous films the bandits/terrorists were clearly trying to steal valuables that weren't theirs, but this film attempts to make the bandits sympathetic in a half-assed attempt to make some sort of "it's all about family" message, which it fails to do...

[@mrcritical6751]

Eh I’d say even when he stops trying to steal it Plankton kinda deserves it, he’s enslaved people for gods sake

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

Another Fun Fact about this Terrible Film: When Max is trying to call the police via the voice assistant, the voice assistant is actually reading the weather report in German. It mentions that it will be snowing the next day and a warning from the police ("Polizei") is announced.

[@FluffyAbsol]

"Let's just end it." was probably the tagline for this movie.

[@danny5636]

is crazy that this movie the so called bad guys are the better people in the story

[@eddieolshefski6467]

Even crazier, they are not actually bad people. They are good people tangled in a crazy kid’s traps after a crazy misunderstanding. Crazy is pretty much the word for this movie.

[@chums9717]

there supposed to be the main characters you know...

[@louisduarte8763]

After watching the latest episode of Terrible Writing Advice, about Deconstructions, I would say this movie tried to Deconstruct the formula of the 1st one by flipping the dynamic so the home invaders are sympathetic, and the kid is the bad guy. I would, but that gives it FAR too much credit it's not clever enough to earn.

[@GSEagle85]

It was like they thought, let’s have the elements of Home Alone sprinkled in, like the visions of them and the doll speaking to her like in the first one too, and that just automatically makes it good. They’re like, ‘FIRST MOVIE! FIRST MOVIE!’

[@Paulagonia]

Can't imagine how the writers presented the idea: ok we have this cute and quirky couple right? Well they're about to lose their home! And and and... They get beaten up to death! :D

[@teddyfilli3079]

I mean out of all of Home Alone 3 faults. At least the robbers were terrorists!

[@darknorman2914]

Heads at Disney:LOVE IT!!!

[@ProfessorMike64]

I love that Buzz mentions that this happened to Kevin twice before (not three times), meaning Home Alone 4 isn't canon.

[@RobTibbetts92]

I still think Home Alone 3 is a worthy successor

[@JoeChillton]

The first three look so much better

[@deuceydee3506]

I've seen _all_ of the Home Alone movies, and 3 is definitely not the worst. I like how 3 changed up the formula but still found a plausible way to deliver on the main premise. I think 4 is the worst. It uses characters from the first 2 films, with _none_ of the original actors, which should tell you everything you need to know about it.

[@mrcritical6751]

@@deuceydee3506 bell when they tried to get one of the original actors for 4 (Daniel Stern) he told them the fact that they offered the movie to him was an insult

[@noahsaunders3919]

I have a feeling that the very creators of this one hated the original because the actual Tagline of this film literally is: " Holiday Classics were meant to be Broken" just think about that for a moment...

[@thedisneynerd7866]

Since this is the final N.C review of 2022. I hope everybody at C.A and everybody watching has a happy new year ❤

[@theforcer1762]

I want a rated R home alone sequel with Macaulay Culkin as kevin again

[@carealoo744]

I think there was literally gonna be a movie like that..

[@thehallowayboys]

Yes please

[@wesleylouis6609]

Actually a home alone movie with Kevin and the other kids from the other movies would be very interesting seeing them all together.

[@jareththegoblinking3191]

I like the idea of this being in the same universe as the original Home Alone with Kevin owning a security company. Can we have a movie about grown up Kevin?

[@jbcatz5]

Maybe he has a kid he uses to bounce ideas off of.

[@jareththegoblinking3191]

Maybe

[@postersandstuff]

@@jareththegoblinking3191 Buzz prolly have legal issues now , what with the accusations :/

[@KathyH684]

Happy New Year Nostalgia Critic and Co. Wishing you guys all the best!

[@Paur]

2:47 "It's not a Jenga tower, JEFF." He nailed that joke. I knew what was coming, but the look he gives at the end killed me.

[@TheMasondwich]

This is the closest everyone has ever gotten to watching this.

[@Coffee_cryptid]

One way they could've fixed things was to have the parents the come second time to just ask the kid for the doll and come across actual burglars. Then have the kid go against the burglars thinking it's the parents coming for round 2 possibly having them play a similar role to the old man in the first movie at the end

[@matthewjones6786]

This feels a lot like the live-action Disney remakes. Like, effort is clearly there, but they're so creatively caged by having to recapture the magic of a classic. Besides that, the biggest thing they _did_ do different from the original was making the home invaders sympathetic! What a bizarre thing to change!

[@eon1014]

Max’s sadistic treatment of the McKenzie family makes sense when you consider the situation from his point of view. We, the audience, are aware that the thieves aren't there for Max, but he doesn’t know that. He only hears them say that they want to take "him" and sell "him" (the doll) to some old lady, and he thinks that they’re talking about him, not the doll. From Max’s point of view, he sees the McKenzies as child kidnappers who deserve whatever he does to them.

[@MforMovesets]

To be fair, when I grew up I didn't really have internet, so that giant Carrera track checks out.

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

You know Home Alone is a lot like the Death Star, for the first two films it was pretty good, but then for the third film it blew up pretty bad

[@erichfiedler1481]

Only one Home Alone left, and we all know which one it is he NEEDS to review next year

[@bunnyblanc5470]

Which one is that?

[@Phanthief95]

Which one? The only one he didn’t do was the first movie & he’s already praised it as a Christmas classic so there’s no point in covering it.

[@rckblzr]

@@Phanthief95 Doug said he was considering doing the first Home Alone this year if he couldn’t do this one. Maybe it’d be more of a retrospective to examine why that film is fondly remembered and what it had that the sequels lacked

[@Akanisen049]

@@Phanthief95 Why not cover it? Yeah we know he considers it a classic, yeah we've all seen it. But I personally would still like to hear critic well... critique it. Even if it's not his usual review where he's dunking on it, hearing his thoughts and viewpoints would be nice.

[@ianr.navahuber2195]

@@Akanisen049 i mean it would be nostalgic criticing it, and what a good way to make honor to his name

[@ChrisSagem]

Home Sweet Home Alone is probably the sequel I easily hate the most, out of the entire franchise. Btw I actually unironically like Home Alone 3, I think it’s underrated, and in my opinion is on par with the first two. Anyways Home Sweet Home Alone is probably one of the few times a movie sequel in recent years has made me so genuinely angry in a long time. And as massive fan of the first two Homes Alone movies I believe this movie does a massive disservice to the originals and being an overall good movie One of the main issues I have with this movie is that it just feels way too much like too much of a copy of the first movie, it copies and rehashes way too much of the first movie, to the point of seeming a little desperate to be the first movie again, from its set up, its character, it’s setting, and the music. And even though the sequels kinda do the same thing I thought that were at least different enough with the way they set things up. and this movie even rehashes Home Alone 3, with the booby trapped trampoline and the bandits in a frozen pool. The kid in this movie is just a shallow copy of Kevin from the first two movies, but with non of the charm or likability of Kevin from the original. The first movie gives us a more understandable reasoning for why Kevin acts the way he does, since he comes from a large family who don’t respect and all act like complete jerks to him, I mean of course he’s gonna act like a rebellious jerk if you’re gonna give him any respect. But in this movie we don’t know anything about who this kid’s family is, or why the kid acts the way he does, or why we should give a shit about this main character. And when it comes being a violent sociopath, yes Kevin is a violent sociopath to the villains but in way kinda it does actually add a lot more charm to his overall character when fighting the bad guys, because he’s just a schemy rebellious little kid trying to do whatever he can to save the day, and the movie takes place in a flexible cartoon reality that you can suspend your disbelief and be entertained by the slapstick, and a lot kids around a certain age where they generally tend to like being a little naughty and mean towards other people, especially when it’s towards bad guys who we know are actually dangerous threat towards the main character, as it’s essentially like every little child’s dream deep down to be like Kevin outsmarting a bunch of dumb grown up bad guys, as these movies are essentially just child wishfulfilment. While the kid in this movie has no charm or likeability when it comes to being violent sociopath, because we know the bandits are not bad guys, and because of that we’re just watching him torturing his aunt and uncle who are completely innocent and doing nothing wrong, and he ends up coming across as more as an unlikable monster, and the actual villain of the movie, rather the than a protagonist that were supposed to root for But the thing that really kills it all for me is the slapstick surrounding the “bad guys” of this movie. I just don’t think you can do a Home Alone story we’re the bandits are sympathetic misunderstood good guys. Because I feel making them sympathetic kinda completely ruins the comedy we love from these movies in the first place surrounding the hard core slapstick and it just doesn’t really work the same as it did the wet bandits! Because you feel sorry for these people knowing they’re just trying help their financially struggling family by needing to get a back a toy that they own, with the pain and suffering they endure coming off as more horribly mean spirited than funny to me with how undeserving their torture is. The slapstick with the wet bandits was funny because they were bad guys with clearly defined selfish motivations, and seeing them get hurt is hilarious because of just how despicable they are, as their pretty much just punishing themselves when walking into the booby due to being motivated by their own selfish desires, as it is what continually making them suffer more and more. And Kevin was an underdog when fending himself off against the villains as we knew who the bandits were and what they’re cruel intentions were, and him setting up all those traps was him trying and struggle to survive, against the bandits wrath, while also having little bit of fun in the process. These bandits are innocent people interacting with the kid who’s there nephew, and their telling him “we’re not gonna hurt you” or “we just wanna talk to you” I really do question whether or not I’m still supposed to take their pain and suffering as a joke or if I’m supposed to take it seriously with them trying to reason with their nephew. Just because something is different from something you’ve seen done many times, doesn’t immediately make it good, as the slapstick in this movie is essentially like watching a kid torture and mutilate a bunch of defenseless dogs, it’s something that just hurts your soul more than it does make you laugh. This also just reeks of Disney trying very desperately hard to put a twist on every iconic villain they could find, especially in making changes in specific stories where the changes don’t belong, I mean there are a lot of stories where sympathetic villains add a lot to the quality of the story, but then there are some that are a complete detriment to the story, there’s a specific reason why the bandits in the original were designed to be bad guys with no redeeming qualities, because as soon as you start give them sympathetic traits, you wind up ruining the whole point of why people like the comedy of these movies in the first place Look I get it you wanna make a deconstruction of Home Alone and it nonsensical bull crap that’s fine, but this movie doesn’t do anything all that particularly creative or smart with what it wants to try and deconstruct, and instead mostly resorts to lazily copying and rehashing the first movie, with it’s premise, it’s setting, and it’s setup, but with just the bandits being good guys, and does very little else with it’s whole subversive concept outside of that, as it still seems insistent on wanting to be a traditional Home Alone, and instead it actually ends up making its own premise itself even stupider more nonsensical than the movies they were trying to deconstruct, with just the added minus of not being funny. The bandits being good guys, isn’t really a bad idea. A better idea is actually going all the way and actually having the bandits be the protagonists who were supposed to root for and have the kid be the antagonist were supposed to root against, as them being brutally tortured and us sympathizing with their pain and suffering allows for us the audience to root for them as the underdogs trying to succeed against the kid, and have it all by design, or if you wanna make a mean spirited movie brutally deconstructing all the bullshit surrounding the Home Alone formula then why not do something like a horror movie or a psychological drama, showing more the grimy realism of the booby actually dangerous, deadly the repercussions surrounding them really are, and having your sympathy for the bandits pain and be done for more dramatic effect, rather than this movie still insisting that it’s supposed to be funny. Now with all these negatives out of the way let’s talk about some of the few things I actually do like in this movie and there’s quite a bit of it. I’ll admit the movie prior to the 3rd act isn’t really all that bad, it’s mostly a mediocre rehash of the first movie, but it is admittedly pretty funny in certain areas, and the main couple I’ll admit are actually quite likeable, charming, and even kinda funny together, which is why I despise the slapstick. I also really like how this movie looks. I like the reoccurring easter egg of Kevin having his own home security system. But I think my favorite thing in this entire movie is the cameo with Buzz as a police officer. Although I’ll admit seeing this just makes me much rather have a legacy Home Alone sequel where we get to see what Kevin as an adult is up to So yeah overall, this movie really f***ing sucks ass. It might not objectively be the worst movie ever, but it’s been a while since a movie has made me this enraged, and as a big fan of the Home Alone, it does a lot of things really frustrates and pisses me off beyond all belief. Yeah. I think I’m just gonna skip with this one and just continue to stick with the original 2 movies including 3

[@Tokuman100]

Jeff and Pam aren't Max's relatives. But other than that, this was well written.

[@MasterGeek-mk5ne]

Finally, I have them all

[@CalliopePony]

I kind of love the idea of Kevin growing up to create his own home security company.

[@greensonickid3304]

It's just a bucket on a door and bunch of jacks and spikes on the floor

[@GBmovieluv]

It looks like he did. Like it was imagined would happen

[@connorerhart6038]

Still better than Home Alone 4

[@Chimcharlover13]

I would genuinely LOVE to see the movie where Marv & Harry are reformed villains, and Kevin is grown-up but has gone insane and now HE'S breaking into THEIR home. I'm so sad that that was never made now.

[@meganparrish807]

Nah, they're defending their home from other robbers and then have an epiphany about how much fun it is.

[@meganparrish807]

Or better, Kevin is visiting the former Wet Bandits to apologize to them when the house is beset by robbers and the three team up.

[@shinyninja8107]

You know, this franchise is like someone made a really good pie but lost the recipe, so every year they tried to make it again. The first time they tried it turned out pretty decent, and while the later pies had some resemblance to the first one they were never able to remember the recipe

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Problem with bad sequels is because they constantly try to repeat recipes of originals. Good sequels always try to do something new or extend lore of original.

[@postersandstuff]

@@ExtremeMadnessX another thing audience prolly expect it to be on the same level as #1 & 2 , thats prolly not gonna happen even tho i want it to

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

@@postersandstuff Terminator 2 and Aliens are those exceptions, also examples where sequels actually doing something new and extend lore.

[@JunKazamaFan]

The Home Alone franchise has me feeling like Austin Powers: "WHY WON'T YOU DIE?!"

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

You know if you watch this film series non stop I’m pretty you start seeing weird images of faceless Cookie Monster

[@jabber1990]

I liked Home Alone 3, mostly because it had a fairly realistic setup

[@GBmovieluv]

The bird was funny too

[@DJays4]

The kid manages to put holes in his floorboard, make traps that figure EXACTLY where the robbers will be, can train a parrot to ride a remote control car into an igloo and light a match and does this all while being younger than Kevin and you call it realistic? You must be high

[@jabber1990]

@DJ-zv3by he was into tinkering and was left home because he was sick Unlike Kevin who was just a rich kid who was left behind due to bad parenting

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

This franchise is starting to slowly turn into what if The Terminator from Terminator 3 just kept on saying talk to the hand and it was for 1 hour

[@austinostergaard2187]

Doug, i love that you guys find a way to make your ad reads entertaining! I always skip through ad reads but yours are always worth watching and give me a hearty chuckle!

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

Gotta say this film is really good for people who hate their eyeballs a lot

[@Froggonite]

Or their ears

[@rustyshackelford312]

I literally watched a thing today on the original John Hughes script before chris columbus did a few changes and one thing he changed was he cut any scene that humanized the wet bandits even a little bit. Because he knew if anyone felt even the slightest bit of sympathy for Harry and Marv the movie wouldn't work.

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

Home Alone 6: The Death of Comedy

[@Stand_By_For_Mind_Control]

The weirdest thing about this movie is how that mansion would be a huge step down for real life Ellie Kemper. That woman was born into obscene wealth.

[@professoroak9721]

Was rooting for the bad guys in this one

[@Deactorr]

Another great year of Nostalgia Critic. Have a Happy New Year!

[@workermett6685]

You have officially reviewed the entire Home Alone franchise. THANK GOD!

[@afterdinnercreations936]

"Houston, we have a problem" "It's always problem, problem, problem with you guys. Don't you ever call just to say 'hi?'"

[@carloslopezortega3327]

Oh yeah. 6:31.👀

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

This film franchise is probably why Ant-Man isn’t allowed to go to Holiday Parties anymore

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

So this is why Blade keeps getting Fruit of the Month Club for Christmas

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

Would not be surprised if this film was in the bargain bin 5 years later

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

I see the side journey of Steve Martin turning into Evil Plastic Bag Man has taken a disturbing journey

[@koneheadcokehead4981]

So this is why Danny Devito cant stop eating toothpaste

[@ImAFatNerd90]

I love freshly uploaded Nostalgia Critic.

[@alexmapp5444]

Me too!

[@rzone317]

I give my thoughts on this one... The villains were really likable and they make hero is a complete jerk

[@stevenknauer6234]

I hope this kid gets better roles. He was a not-so-great fit for an awful script, but he seems like he can act!

[@calebray1834]

right, good kid actor shitty script

[@CTC0411]

He was in the new gangsta granny sequel, and he wasn't so good in that. So he might get better roles in other movies.

[@T-Hyde]

In an original draft of the script, the movie started out with an ad for the McCallister Home Security System, starring Kevin himself. The commercial would then reveal that he has a wife, a 5-year-old daughter and still lives in his childhood home. This would have been Macaulay Culkin's rumored cameo in the film if he had accepted Disney's $2.5 million offer.

[@mrcritical6751]

That would’ve been sweet