Enjoyable, yet some implausibility

Rating: 7/10 (29 November 2018)

I've always enjoyed this movie since I was still a kid. I've noticed more of the movie's implausibilities as I've gotten older, and some copying from the first "Home alone", but it's still pretty good even now.
The beginning of this movie repeats from the first movie: the McAllister house full of scurrying relatives and smart alec kids, a conflict scene with Kevin getting the short end of the stick from everyone and getting treated badly by Uncle Frank and Buzz, Mom (Catherine O'Hara) sending Kevin to his room with Kevin wishing again they would all just go away, and then the family oversleeping and them all rushing to the airport in a panic and just barely making the flight.
The big change in ideas comes when Kevin this time is still with his family at the airport rather than being left at the house. The movie leaving him at the house a second time would really have made it a flop. A couple little implausibilities here included while running through the airport, Kevin's dad (John Heard) keeps looking over his shoulder to see if he's still with him, until Kevin stops cold in his tracks to fiddle with batteries. Of course then, his dad immediately stops looking over his shoulder, or else he would've seen he's no longer there and would've turned around to get him. And Mom tried to stand aside outside the gate to make sure everyone was there, but the freakin gate agent refused to let her. But, I did like the bit with the guy who from the back looked like Kevin's dad and wearing a similar coat running to the New York flight with Kevin following him thinking it's Dad.
The New York scenes with Kevin were a great change of pace from the first film, Kevin at the Plaza hotel with the bumbling staff there led by Tim Curry, Kevin living it up at the posh hotel, renting a limo (once again with Kevin's very own cheese pizza), and going to the toy store and having that good scene with Mr Duncan (Eddie Bracken), Duncan: "where'd you get all that cash?", Kevin: "I have alot of grandmothers", lol. The pigeon lady (Brenda Fricker) scenes with Kevin were OK too, and giving us a good moment of the New York symphony orchestra playing Christmas music.
The two biggest implausibilities were when the hotel staff confronted Kevin about the credit card, chased him to the hotel room, and then Kevin playing a scene from one of those old gangster films from the first film and trying to make it seem to the hotel staff that there was really a guy in the next room holding them up at gunpoint. It really was pretty unbelievable how the hotel staff didn't even see the "gun man" in the next room, but still reacted as if he was right in front of them pointing the gun at them in plain sight. And, they couldn't tell it was all coming from a TV? (The movie gun man mentioning "Cliff" with the hotel staff member with the same name's reaction was kinda funny though).
The other implausibility was the whole Harry and Marv part again, and all of Kevin's elaborate traps and them getting hurt in ways that would seriously injure or kill someone in real life. Kevin using his renovated aunt and uncle's house in New York instead of his own house in Chicago was the only change from the first film, other than that the whole Harry and Marv running into Kevin's traps section was a complete duplicate of the first time.
The film's still pretty enjoyable overall.