A great absurdist comedy

Rating: 10/10 (1 February 2014)

An absurdist comedy, a great ride if watched in the right frame of mind on a cold Christmas night.
An eight year-old boy is accidentally left behind when his family goes on holiday in Paris for Christmas. When an amusingly inept pair of burglars set their sights on his house, they get more than they bargained for.
There is a kid in the lead, but it isn't really a kids' movie, occasionally gets a bit too violent for the lighthearted tone in the rest of the film, but more often than not it is a fun ride, watching this little kid outwit a pair of nitwit stooges with his MacGyver-like ingenuity.
Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci work well together, as the most determined thieves on the face of the earth. (At what point in time would real burglars have given up?) Beautifully photographed in a winter wonderland, it provides a good backdrop for the Road Runner-like hijinks.