![]() ![]() This is the life of the everyday city-dweller, and Kevin McCallister is a true “everyboy. Of course, like anybody who lives in a city, McCallister is regularly beaten down by mishap and misfortune but in equal measure, he is also blessed with inordinate good luck. Kevin McCallister is an effortless New Yorker, a testament both to the character’s independence and to the idea that you don’t need to be from New York in order to thrive there. Lost In New York is the family film’s answer to The Godfather Part II, with Culkin as a young Vito Corleone, setting up schemes and learning to survive in the big city. Related: Best Films Set in New York, Ranked The place is not just a character in the film, but also Culkin’s scene partner, embodied in genius turns from Dana Ivey, Rob Schneider, and Tim Curry, among others. More notably, it is a love-hate letter to the most magical of hellholes: New York City. If the first Home Alone film is a masterpiece of pure invention and Christmas magic, then Home Alone 2 is bigger and better, if slightly more disingenuous. The Christmas classic sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, isnt well regarded when compared to its predecessor, but its basically movie heaven for those who love New York at Christmastime. ![]() A chance encounter is what sets things in motion between these three - the Wet Bandits’ (or Sticky Bandits’) desire for revenge and a desperation from Kevin to save his own hide. It also just so happens that the thieves who burgled his house in the previous film (a never-better Daniel Stern and a Joe Pesci who mutters in gibberish instead of swearing) are escaping from prison on a fish truck at the same time and using NYC as a way station on their path to bigger and brighter things. (The fact that the ticket agents let him through on his word is an uninspired deus ex machina, and one of a dozen reminders that the film takes place pre-9/11.) This time, Kevin isn’t left at home per se rather, he gets lost in the airport and boards the wrong plane – to New York, no less. How on earth could Kevin be left behind again? How could it be made bigger and more interesting for the purposes of a sequel? A lot of hare-brained plot mechanics have to fall into place in order for this to work, and they just barely do with credit to Hughes’ snappy writing and Columbus’ heist movie-styled direction. ![]() 15th, faced an uphill battle from the jump. Home Alone 2: Lost In New York, which turned 30 years old Nov. ![]()
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