Why Daniel Stern preferred this one to the sequel.

Rating: 5/10 (16 January 2006)

When I heard Daniel Stern speak at Lewis & Clark College in September, 2004, about his USO tour in Iraq, he said that while "Home Alone" had a bunch of silly gags, at least it only had them once; the sequel just repeated everything. When you think about it, that makes sense. This movie was funny the first time (I certainly loved it when I saw it in the theaters), but not much after that.
I gotta ask: what happened to John Hughes? In the '80s, he made movies like "The Breakfast Club", "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", and "Planes, Trains & Automobiles"; in the '90s, he got into dropping things on people's heads (think "Home Alone" and "Baby's Day Out"). Oh well, life goes on. And for the record, Daniel Stern also said that when he was in Iraq, some Iraqi children recognized him from this movie; that made him understand the reach of American culture.