There's something familiar about it...

Rating: 8/10 (10 January 2011)

Home Alone 2 could also be called "More Of The Same", but that's OK because there's enough different and the same bit is fine.
I'll explain. His idiot family mislay Kevin at Christmas again - this time he is booked into a hotel where he has to bamboozle suspicious concierge Tim Curry into believing he isn't on his own. In due course he falls foul of Harry and Marv, the single minded but dim crooks from the first movie - they want revenge on him, he wants to foil their plan to rob a toy store, and the stage is set for a reply of the siege, full of slapstick violence, and taking place this time in the shell of a brownstone which is in mid-renovation. Finally there is - guess what? - a sentimental resolution.
Yes, the siege is violent, but the violence is cartoon violence: although Marv and Joe are hurt, things which would in reality kill them simply leave them somewhat stunned, following which they get up and resume their single-minded pursuit of Kevin.
I cast my vote, too, for the bricks and the way the sequence keeps you waiting for a variation which never comes. I also have a soft spot for the replay of the paint tins down the stairwell from the first movie, which does carry some funny variations.
And, again, that's the movie's strength - it is very funny.