Product Description
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Home Alone:
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the
man of the house, overnight! Accidentally left behind when his
family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, Kevin gets busy
decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the
halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to
break in, and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby
traps to welcome them!
Home Alone 2:
Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is back! But this time he's
in New York City with enough cash and credit cards to turn the
Big Apple into his own playground! But Kevin won't be alone for
long. The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and
Daniel Stern), still smarting from their last encounter with
Kevin, are bound for New York too, plotting a huge holiday heist.
Kevin's ready to welcome them with a battery of booby traps the
bumbling bandits will never forget!
Home Alone 3:
Here's a perfect movie for kids, who never seem to tire of John
Hughes's sure-fire slapstick formula. Working yet another
variation on his mammoth 1990 hit, writer-producer Hughes
(regarded by many as Hollywood's antichrist) strands a youngster
in his own home with the chicken pox in this 1997 retelling.
While his parents go to work, he sees a team of burglars invading
the neighborhood houses; in fact, they're spies, looking for a
toy containing a stolen microchip. The inevitability of the
finale--one kid holding off four professionals with toys and
garden tools--will do nothing to lessen the amusement of
youngsters, who love to see the bad guys get creamed. Adults may
pause at the sadistic nature of some of Hughes's pranks, but kids
will eat up the image of one of their own outwitting all the
adults. --Marshall Fine
Home Alone 4:
It's tough being nine. Tougher still is spending Christmas with
dad (Jason Beghe) at his new girlfriend Natalie's (Joanna Going)
mansion even though it's loaded with all the techno-gadgets any
kid could hope for! But this Christmas, Kevin (Michael Weinberg)
is really in hot water again, and so are Marv (French Stewart)
and his sidekick (Missi Pyle), who are trying to rob Natalie's
house!
With funnier and more high-tech, crime-stopping wizardry at his
disposal than ever, Kevin just might finally put these crooks on
ice forever - and keep his parents together while he's at it - in
this uplifting, hilarious comedy the whole family is sure to
love!
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Review for Home Alone:
Now and forever a favorite among kids, this 1990 comedy written
by John Hughes (The Breakfast Club) and directed by Chris
Columbus (Mrs. Doubtfire) ushered Macaulay Culkin onto the screen
as a troubled 8-year-old who doesn't comfortably mesh with his
large family. He's forced to grow a little after being
accidentally left behind when his folks and siblings fly off to
Paris. A good-looking boy, Culkin lights up the screen during
several funny sequences, the most famous of which finds him
screaming for joy when he realizes he's unsupervised in his own
house. A bit wooden with dialogue, the then-little star's voice
could grate on the nerves (especially in long, wise-child
passages of pure bromide), but he unquestionably carries the
film. Billie Bird and John Candy show up as two of the
interesting strangers Culkin's character meets. Joe Pesci and
Daniel Stern are entertainingly cartoonish as thieves, but the
ensuing violence once the little hero decides to keep them out of
his house is over-the-top. --Tom Keogh
Review for Home Alone 2: Lost in New York:
This somewhat unpleasant 1992 sequel to the blockbuster Home
Alone revisits the first film's gimmick by stranding Macaulay
Culkin's character in New York City while his family ends up
somewhere else. Again, the little guy meets up with colorful
people on the margins of society (including a pigeon woman played
by Brenda Fricker) and again he gets into a prop-heavy battle
with Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. The latter sequence is even
worse than the first film in terms of violence inflicted on the
two villains (director Chris Columbus, who also made the first
film, can't seem to emphasize the slapstick over the graphic
effects of the fight). The best running joke finds a concierge
(Tim Curry) at the swank hotel where Culkin is staying trying and
failing to prove that the boy is on his own. --Tom Keogh
Review for Home Alone 3:
Here's a perfect movie for kids, who never seem to tire of John
Hughes's sure-fire slapstick formula. Working yet another
variation on his mammoth 1990 hit, writer-producer Hughes
(regarded by many as Hollywood's antichrist) strands a youngster
in his own home with the chicken pox in this 1997 retelling.
While his parents go to work, he sees a team of burglars invading
the neighborhood houses; in fact, they're spies, looking for a
toy containing a stolen microchip. The inevitability of the
finale--one kid holding off four professionals with toys and
garden tools--will do nothing to lessen the amusement of
youngsters, who love to see the bad guys get creamed. Adults may
pause at the sadistic nature of some of Hughes's pranks, but kids
will eat up the image of one of their own outwitting all the
adults. --Marshall Fine