If I were them and the kid has just shot me in the face with a BB gun and then I’ve slipped down a flight of stairs, I’d give up and go home. A small child, home alone, in a big house and two burglars are trying to get in. I’m reminded of the final act of ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)’ when Nancy prepares her home with improvised weaponry so when she pulls Freddy Krueger into the real world, he’s in for a surprise. These two and arguably ‘Moonwalker (1988)’.Īlso, if it weren’t presented in such a light-hearted and comedic tone and done in a more sinister way, this could easily be a horror movie. The point is that I think that this film and the sequel were the only ‘kids’ films he’s ever done. I’m not judging him for it, he’s very good at it. I was fairly surprised to see Joe Pesci (not when I was a kid because I didn’t know who he was) who rose to prominence by playing foul-mouthed gangsters in ‘The Death Collector (1976)’, ‘Catchfire (1990)’ and ‘Goodfellas (1990)’ to name three but I’m pretty sure that every other character he’s ever played has been in the mafia. The casting of the two villains was second to none. In the opening scenes, he doesn’t show any kind of prominence in creating traps but once he realises he’s in danger, he’s quick to pull out the Christmas tree ornaments and blowtorches as a means of defence. In a very short space of time, he’s rigged his house with so many traps that a Health and Safety inspector would have to produce a ‘Risk Assessment’ sheet about seventy thousand pages long and then have a heart attack. I’m fairly certain that Kevin McCallister is an evil genius. I’m well aware that this film is a classic and is fairly light-hearted in it’s delivery but when you look underneath the surface, there’s something quite malevolent going on here and not just on the sides of the burglars. It’s up to Kevin to protect his family home with some elaborate and some might say ‘deadly’ traps. Meanwhile, ‘The Wet Bandits’, Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), local burglars who are infamous for robbing private homes and flooding them afterwards, target the McCallister’s home. Due to a clock related cock-up, the family rush to the airport and board the plane a little too late to realise that they’ve left little Kevin behind. The plot involves a nine-year old boy, Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) having a row with his absurdly large family the night before they are set to leave on a plane to Paris for Christmas. Both films take place at Christmas but the central plot has almost sod all to do with Christmas. That fat git needs to stop giving me deodorant because I got the picture more than a few years ago.Īnyway, since people still have their decorations up then I can still talk about something that’s a bit Christmassy and when I say ‘a bit’ Christmassy, I do of course mean that ‘Home Alone’ is as much of a Christmas film as ‘Die Hard’. OK, so I missed Christmas but I hope that everyone had a lovely Christmas and got just what they wanted from Santa.
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