Home Alone-Only He's Not So Lonely Here **1/2

Rating: 6/10 (10 December 2008)

The last half-hour of this 1990 film is hysterical as McCaulay Caulkin turns the tables on 2 dim-witted robbers, played phenomenally well by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern.
Come on. Even with a lot of children around, how could 4 adults leave young McCaulay behind? Of course, that's the plot so that he can make mischief, but it's a little silly here. Complicating matters, the Christmas holiday makes it difficult to get back home.
The next door neighbor, an elderly gentleman, is regarded as an eerie individual. Only our young lad talks to him in church and gets him to try to contact his long-estranged son. How convenient.
While there is love of family here, our little hero did quite well when left to survive for himself. He may very well be our young Robinson Crusoe.