As dreadful as the first film was brilliant

Rating: 4/10 (15 December 2012)

Home Alone was brilliant, an absolute classic, suitable for the entire family.
This was absolutely dreadful and suitable for 15 year olds and little else.
Home Alone retained elements of realism and you always felt that Kevin's sole intention was protecting his home. Nothing more than that and the traps were amusing ones.
In Home Alone 2, every stunt, trick or booby trap (be it Kevin or Harry) bordered on either the absurd or the sadistic. Add to that the entire airport episode was too nonsensical to take seriously.
Rolling some marbles to cause two men to fall in the street you can laugh off & ignore once, but they were numerous. Hurling bricks from a top of a building at somebody, setting fire to them, filling toilets up with petrol, wasn't funny, was a little uncomfortable to watch with children, who equally found no fun in it at all.
You could make a decent argument that Kevin was actually the sadistic one in this film & could quite easily have shopped them to the Police instead of luring them to the house.
Then they'd have been no film, which in hindsight would've been a blessing.
I'll stick with the original from now on, which was immaculately written in the main, rather watch that twice in a row than this again.