Oddly enough, the best of them all

Rating: 10/10 (24 November 2006)

Maybe a sequel to a movie like "Home Alone" wasn't the brightest idea Hollywood has ever produced, but the result is really something to see. Sure, it's extraordinarily unlikely that any family would lose their child on vacation not long after they abandoned him at home in the original. Nonetheless, "Lost in New York" is certainly better than "Home Alone 3," a stupid spy story not even stomach-able. Macaulay Culkin is in peak form as the abandoned Kevin. Tim Curry, Dana Ivey, and Rob Schneider are wonderfully idiotic as the bumbling hotel employees who catch onto the fact that Kevin is really alone. And Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern rule the face of the planet, once again, as the "Wet Bandits," the worst criminals in history. People tend to run this movie down for being "predictable" and "mindless," but if you remove the fact that the kid was in a similar situation before, it actually makes for fantastic Christmas entertainment.