Lose This Film Anywhere. Even New York!

Rating: 2/10 (26 January 2016)

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992): Dir: Chris Columbus / Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard: Recycled piece of crap that completely copies everything from the first film. Chris Columbus does nothing more than duplicate the success of the innovative first movie only this time Kevin is stranded in New York while his family is flying off somewhere else. And what are the chances of the two criminals from the first film breaking out of prison and ending up in New York? And they fall for the same stupid booby traps. Joe Pesci embarrassingly tries not to swear, and Stern is just plain juvenile in his "sticky bandits" bit that grows old fast. Catherine O'Hara and John Heard as Kevin's parents more or less sleepwalk through this junk. We are given that closeup realization of O'Hara where she screams, "Kevin!" Cutting her hair short doesn't render this anything other than a complete re-read. Macaulay Culkin was sighted as the new find when he played Kevin in Home Alone. Now it gets old and the traps are less believable this time out. The Christmas decorations are a sight to see and the atmosphere fits the mood but the screenplay is about as lazy as writing gets. We even replace the snow shovel guy from the original with an old woman covered in pigeons who will come to Kevin's aid. Watch the first film and hope that this dread gets lost in a New York sewer. Score: 2 / 10