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Summary: Unbeleivable sequel!
Review: You can't really make a second movie much better than this! It has all the excitement and fun as the first, and even way more. This time, Kevin (Culkin) runs into the same two burglars, this time in the Big Apple. But he tries to hide out in a hotel by using his dad's credit card, after he loses them in the airplane of course. He goes into the wrong plane, and the rest of the family are off to France. He finds out how scary the city is, including drunk bums and an old, ugly pigeon feeding lady who later becomes his friend. When the burglars finally catch up with Kevin, he manages to escape to his uncle's old, beat up house and do an encore of tricks there, too! When Kevin gets chased to Central Park, tth pigeon lady and some fireworks help the cops to catch the burglars, maybe once and for all. But again, it's up to his mom to find Kevin. Beautiful sequel to the first one!
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Summary: Good Good Good Movie
Review: Best Movie Macaulay Culkin is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Funny and very clever
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Summary: The Best of the Three!
Review: This is simply one of the best movies you'll ever buy. I saw it in the theater and couldn't rest until I got it on video. However now, as an adult (25) I got it for my children as well, since I let someone borrow it and they kept it! That's how good the movie was.There is a lot of Christmas spirit in this film, just like the first one. But it is a lot funnier and the stunts more incredible. This time Kevin it's transported to New York alone while his family flies to Florida (the proccess will make you laugh), then faces the villains Larry & Marv who scaped from jail, and even stops them from stealing the money from a toy store that was to be donated to the Children's Hospital. That's what really got to Kevin's tender little heart. He could'nt let them get away with this! No Siree! The plot is funny from the moment the movie begins, Boss (his older brother) embarrases him in public in a Christmas recital, then he fights back and ruins the recital. Boss then falsely apologizes to Kevin in front of his family, but mom get's mad when Kevin wont apologize back. I could stay here all night but "a picture is worth more than a million words" so see it for yourself. I remember that everyone applauded in the theater at the end of this movie. :)
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Summary: New York.
Review: This is the sequel to the mega-hit 1990 movie Home Alone. I actually think this was one was better because they show the beautiful New York skyline and it seemed more like Christmas in New York. I loved how they showed all the famous areas in New York the World Trade Center FAO Swartz The Plaza Hotel. The only part I didn't like was the getting the bad guys part because I thought it was to violent for a kids movie. I recommend this movie for the Christmas movie.
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Summary: BEST Sequel Ever!!!
Review: Even funnier than 1 and three! If you like comedies buy all the homealones and especially this one! Kevin, the star of homealone1, gets on the wrong plane this time and goes to New York, unlike his family who're flying to Florida. He doesn't feel very sorry about it, though, because his brother Buzz had humiliated him earlier, and 'sides he's got his father's wallet, which is chock full of credit cards and cash! He signs into the plaza hotel, where he hires a limo to drive him to a toy store. The store's owner tells him that going to donate all the store's money to a children's hospital. Kevin's just settling in when his two enemies from homealone1 (Marv and Harry) bust out of jail and grab him. They tell him that they're going to rob the toy store. Kev escapes from them, and, feeling sorry for the hospital, booby-traps a house and lures Harry and Marv into it. Of course they fall for all the traps, which are MUCH more dangerous and gruesome than in homealone1. There's a suprising ending!
P.S. I only told a very small part of homealone2, so don't worry, it isn't spoiled for you!
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Summary: As good if not better than the first
Review: WONDERFUL!!! Funny, has a good story to it, and the same extremely funny Kevin
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Summary: Better than the 1st
Review: There aren't many movies where the sequel is better than the original, but this is an exception! HA2 is awesome!
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Summary: Same again, please!
Review: The best comedy sequels (witness "Toy Story 2"), do not attempt to change a winning formula, have the same characters, basically the same plot, and even the same situations - and that's why you love them. While "Home Alone 2" loses none of the original's slapstick brilliance during a somewhat contrived re-location to NY, the message is rather more sickly, and it does not give the same warm, fuzzy, christmassy feeling of the original. If you liked the original, predictably, you WILL love this.
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Summary: When the "Cuteness" Fades...
Review: Since the early 80s, writer/producer (and sometime director) John Hughes has had his finger on the pulse of contemporary America. Responsible for such films as "The Breakfast Club," the wildly successful National Lampoon "Vacation" series (including "Christmas Vacation," which to many has become a holiday staple, right up there with "A Christmas Carol" and "It's A Wonderful Life") and another favorite around Thanksgiving time, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles," he nevertheless achieved his greatest commercial success when he came up with the idea of having a little boy getting inadvertently left behind when his family goes off for a Christmas vacation to Paris. That, of course, was "Home Alone." But he didn't stop there. Some two years later that same little boy boards the wrong plane and ends up in New York City while his parents and the rest of his family go to Florida, in "Home Alone 2-- Lost In New York," directed by Chris Columbus. Once again the extended McCallister family is off for the Christmas holidays, and this time Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) winds up alone in New York. Luckily for him, however, he somehow manages to end up with his father's carry-on, which just happens to contain a credit card. And by using the kind of ingenuity that would escape most adults, he successfully checks himself into the Plaza Hotel under his dad's name, whereupon he soon discovers room service. He also discovers Duncan's Toy Store (to which he is transported in style via the Plaza's limo, complete with cheese pizza just for him), a pigeon lady (Brenda Fricker) in Central Park, and some old acquaintances from back home, Marv (Daniel Stern) and Harry (Joe Pesci), the "Wet Bandits" themselves, though now known (since breaking out of prison) as the "Sticky Bandits." Meanwhile, mom and dad (Catherine O'Hara and John Heard) are frantic in Florida when they arrive and realize that Kevin is once again gone missing. And with that, the search is on. Meanwhile, back in New York-- Opting to ride the "Home Alone" series out as writer/producer, Hughes placed the project in capable hands with director Columbus (who also directed the original "Home Alone," and more recently the hugely successful "Harry Potter). This one may not have been a stretch for him artistically, especially since the characters had been previously established in the first one, but comedy of any kind can be touchy, as it is such a purely subjective arena, and Columbus does a good job of keeping the story on track (for the most part) and moving it right along. Wisely, the filmmakers chose to proceed on the assumption that everyone had seen "Home Alone," and therefore waste little time setting things up. Instead, they contrive to get Kevin posthaste to New York -- where the story really begins-- and even if you haven't seen the first one this will work for you, because this, as they say, isn't brain surgery. Even so, it's a fairly uneven film. There's a few laughs in the rush and flurry of getting Kevin to the Big Apple, but at that point Culkin is expected to carry the film, and quite frankly, left alone (no pun intended) it's a task for which he is simply not qualified. He was veritably propelled to stardom when he played Kevin the first time around, but now-- two years later and two years older-- whatever "cuteness" or magic he may have had then is already noticeably starting to fade. All that aside, however, the truth of the matter is he's just not that capable as an actor, paling in comparison to Haley Joel Osment or "Potter's" Daniel Radcliffe. Culkin's timing is poor and his reactions lack the spontaneity that would have made Kevin a bit more believable. His whole presentation of the character just seems too forced; and the attitude he conveys is more caustic than cute, which certainly detracts from his credibility, as well. Oscar winner (for "My Left Foot") Brenda Fricker has a dismally thankless role as the "Pigeon Lady" who connects with Kevin in the park. With her character, Hughes and Columbus are obviously attempting to recapture the poignancy of the Culkin/Roberts Blossom "church" scene in the original (which worked very well); but Fricker's heavy-handed dramatics, combined with Culkin's aloof response to her, is almost too embarrassing to watch. And the sight of Fricker standing statue-like in the park while pigeons come to roost on her head and shoulders is neither comical nor touching, but ridiculous. In Fricker's defense, it wasn't entirely her fault; she was simply given material that didn't work and a part that was a no-win situation from the beginning. The only thing that really saves this picture at all is, without question, the slapstick antics of Marv and Harry. When they at last engage in battle with Kevin (and you know it's coming), it's more violent than the Road Runner cartoons it emulates, but manages to produce some out-and-out, over-the-top, bona fide belly laughs. Because-- forget everything else-- these two guys are dumber than a sackful of hammers, and Columbus successfully milks it for all it's worth and then some. A warning to kids, though: These buffoons are professionals; do not try this stuff at home. The supporting cast includes Tim Curry (Concierge), Dana Ivey (Mrs. Stone), Rob Schneider (Cedrick), Devin Ratray (Buzz), Ralph Foody (Gangster Johnny), Kieran Culkin (Fuller), Eddie Bracken (Mr. Duncan) and Gerry Bamman (Uncle Frank). Culkin may be the "star" of this show, but without the talent they surround him with, "Home Alone 2-- Lost In New York" would've had to be retitled "Lost at the Video Store," with a shelf life of about two minutes before disappearing altogether. As it is, thanks to some cunning maneuvers by the filmmakers, this one at least provides some passable entertainment and a few good laughs. For a satisfying evening at the movies you could certainly do worse than this; but you could do much better, too.
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Summary: Comedy Fun
Review: Seasonal sequel about a boy ending up alone in Manhattan features the same brand of slapstick as it's predcessor. KIds who loved the original enjoy this film follow-up.
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