A Holiday Classic...

Rating: 10/10 (22 February 2020)

I watch this movie when it's not even winter or Christmas, it's just such an enjoyable film to watch and if you don't at least appreciate it you do not understand the art of film. The highest grossing movie of 1990, and at the time the third highest grossing movie of all time, this movie had a lot of potential. But it was slammed by critics, although audiences seemed to enjoy it, and those exact same critics hating on it back then call it a "Christmas classic" nowadays.
If you didn't know and have been living under a rock for a large percentage of your life, Home Alone is a story about a kid who hates his parents and always thinks they're out to get him and make him seem like the bad guy when he's really not. We see Kevin get discriminated by his family and everyone else around him and can't stand seeing him get tortured by his family. This movie is so damn quotable, nearly every line Kevin says I say on a daily basis, "When I grow up and get married I'm living alone, you hear me?! I'm living alone, I'm living alone!!"
Kevin wishes his family would disappear and we're sort of on the same path as him, the next day he sleeps in and completely forgets the family's trip to France which leads to, "I made my family disappear". What is so terrific about Joe Pesci's performance were his restrictions, he wasn't in a Martin Scorsese movie where he could say all the swear words under the blue moon, he was in a family movie which meant he could not swear and the exact same year Home Alone came out 2 months after Goodfellas, which shows how diverse Joe Pesci is.
Is there anything I can say about this movie that hasn't already been said? It's a holiday classic, it's my favourite winter themed movie, my favourite Christmas movie, and my favourite performance from a child actor until Hugo came around. Grade: A+