Producer-screenwriter John Hughes scores the HOME ALONE hat trick with this second sequel to the slapstick blockbuster, which now finds savvy school-ager Alex under siege by spies while quarantined at home with the chickenpox. Due to an airport mix-up, the spies' super-secret computer chip finds its way to Alex's quiet, tree-lined street, and only he can prevent its rightful owners from ransacking... his house.
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An intellectual FEAST of inuendo and bravado, 'home alone 3' not only meets the standard of the originals, it surpasses them to such an extent that comparing home alone 3 with home alone 1 would be like comparing 'american pie' with 'the shawshank redemption'. One is art at its very best, moving, emotive, REAL, and beautiful, while the other is humanity at its most patheticly idiotic and ashamedly mediocere. When I saw this film I actually wept, like a tiny flower, recoiling in the rain, I curled up into a ball and shook as I realised 'THIS is it. The most beautiful and intense moment of my life'. This film was not just mere entertainment, it took me on a ...
Home Alone 3 A pre-teen fends off thieves in this, the third film in the John Hughes-fashioned franchise
It bares all the marking of a straight-to-video cash-in but Home Alone 3's a bona fide cinematic offering, presumably made to prove that John Hughes's baby could survive the departure of original lead Macaulay Culkin.
With the erstwhile Kevin McCallister now all-grown up and busy suing his parents, child actor Alex D Linz takes over as Alex Pruitt, another little chap in trouble. This time round, a bunch of villains are bent on separating the brat from his favourite toy car on the grounds that the vehicle houses a top secret micro-chip. With danger on his doors...
