A duplicate for the story but also for the good memories (DVD)

Rating: 10/10 (14 June 2010)

For the inside view of those movies, you can read my review for "Home alone". Here, I just want to compare this sequel to the original.
I think "variation" would be a more accurate word than sequel, because you find exactly the same ingredients: the family feud, the fast departure, the lone mysterious figure, the wet bandits,  I can't recall a brand where such a copy happens.
In addition, the spirit of Christmas is a bit lost. If New York is a wonderful town, it hasn't the warm of a suburb or a mansion.
However, the movie is more fun than the first one. It's one of the few movies that make me laugh till I cry. Really! I'm just fond of the Joe Pesci whom bad temper grows bigger and bigger as the hits he takes!
And the soundtrack is just awesome: the score from John Williams, close to "Hook" written in the same period, is an excellent example of the musical power and how can score is essential to movies (and life)! From my recent watchings, "300" is a great movie but doesn't enter my Pantheon because it lacks THE score. I can't even hum the main theme! That's not the case here and that's why I remember to have bought then the audiotape to listen again and again to it, the Darlene love song, the Christmas Carols! Woof: such cool memories!
So it's a pleasure to make them discover to the kid, to hand on the torch