HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK (PG)
D: Chris Columbus
20th Century Fox (John Hughes)
US 1992
120 mins
Comedy
W: John Hughes
DP: Julio Macat
Ed: Raja Gosnell
Mus: John Williams
PD: John Muto
Macauley Culkin (Kevin McCallister), Joe Pesci (Harry
Lime), Daniel Stern (Marv Merchants), John Heard (Peter McCallister), Catherine O'Hara (Kate McCallister), Brenda Fricker (The Pigeon Lady), Tim Curry (Mr. Hector)
Practically a remake of the original movie, except
Macauley Culkin's precocious performance isn't quite as cute this time around.
Instead of being left home alone, this time young Kevin is
separated from his family at the airport and gets on the wrong flight, ending up in New York City. Someone call social services!
With the aid of his father's credit card, he checks into a
fancy hotel and runs up huge amounts on room service, before the pretentious manager gets suspicious and throws him out on the street where, lo and behold, Kevin bumps into the incompetent
criminals from the first film.
Everything is pretty much a carbon copy from the first
film except it's bigger, louder and more, and though a few of the slapstick moments evoke a chuckle of two, it's easy to feel cheated that you've paid to watch the same film
twice.
5/10