Cute movie, good for kids, somewhat entertaining for adults.

Rating: 7/10 (24 December 2007)

"Home Alone" is a very enjoyable semi-classic film. It's about as good as a movie about a kid being left at home and terrorized by burglars could be.
McCully Culkin plays Kevin McCallister, the youngest in a family of many children. He is picked on by the older ones and a slip of the tongue gets him in trouble. After a power shortage and a rush to the airport, he is left home alone. To make matters worse, Marv (Joe Pesci) and Harry (Daniel Stern), two police officer burglars, are trying to break into Kevin's house while the family's away. This is a really fun movie. The acting is all around good from paranoid mother Catherine O'Hara to Johny Candy. The situations Kevin is put through are unrealistic, but who really cares, they're funny and clever. McCully Culkin is really good in this actually, considering for much of the film it's a one man show. With the good comes the bad...this movie can get annoying at times. His nonstop screaming in the film gets old, as does his constant looking and talking to the camera. But nonetheless, this is still a fun movie for kids, and pretty painless for adults.
My rating: *** out of ****. 100 mins. PG for language and mild violence.