Fun, funny, relatable and entertaining, Home Alone was everything its third and fourth sequels weren’t, and while it’s clear that Disney had no real intention of ever doing justice to Home Alone in any meaningful way, Home Sweet Home Alone at least surpasses the horrors of Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House (2002) and Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012) in how there are memorable moments of humour and catharsis, and how the film doesn’t look like it has been shot in just three days. Home Alone was, and still is to many who watch it year after year during the holidays, a great example of how to make the most out of every small idea – a screenwriting and directorial masterclass on how to take something simple and universal and stretch it into something extraordinary. John Hughes wrote a classic back in the late 80s, and would-be children’s film legend Chris Columbus ( Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone) brought it to the screen in 1990 as one of the sleeper hits of the coming decade. In the year 2021, a spiritual successor has been released, and Dan Mazer’s Home Sweet Home Alone is the all-star straight-to-video sequel that we all expected from the trailer. One such a hit was John Hughes’ beloved Christmas IP Home Alone, the series of Christmas movies launched by Macauley Culkin’s lovable cheekiness and a good old dose of Christmas spirit. When Disney purchased Fox in 2019, the House of Mouse – already on course to milk every possible cash cow they could touch – acquired the intellectual property of just about every major history-making franchise they didn’t already own, bringing everything from Alien to Avatar under their banner. Starring: Archie Yates, Aisling Bea, Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney, Kenan Thompson, Timothy Simons, Ally Maki, Pete Holmes, Chris Parnell, Devin Ratray
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