"Greed, for want of a better word, is good."

Rating: Null/10 (21 December 2005)

Because a good movie--or a cruel one that makes people laugh--can always be made into a sequel, Chris Columbus brings us Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. HA2 delivers the poster child for UMC child neglect, Macaulay Culkin to New York wherein he is once again pursued by lunk-heads Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. The locale is different, but the story is almost identical.
The only major change is that Kevin and you, the audience, get to see actual homeless people in a big American city, and the audience is expected to tear up at all the meaningful Christmasness therein with a collective sob. This breaking out in a rash of caring, which is slightly less than skin deep, is the only way for the movie makers to mask their greed in making this cynical trash.