(And even if they did, I'm not sure this was a reasonable response to a housebreaking.) Meanwhile, Kevin concludes that Prescott must be working for the crooks, since he failed to respond to Kevin's call for help. Kevin insists that the burglars are to blame, but none of the adults believe his story.
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It's not quite enough to make the movie worth watching, but this is gratuitous property damage straight out of Steve Urkel's playbook, and it is worthy of an encore.Īnyway, when Natalie comes home to eight inches of standing water covering the first floor of her house, she blames Kevin. The first time I saw this, it made me laugh uncontrollably. Unequivocally the best scene in the movie is the one where the bathroom door bursts open and Marv and Vera are carried downstairs on a giant tidal wave that floods the entire house. First they show up to "get the lay of the land", and Kevin defeats them by turning on all the water in the master bathroom and filling the entire ground floor of the house with six inches of standing water. Instead Kevin thwarts their crimes by bonking them over the head with pots and pans.Īwkwardly, the encounters between Kevin and the Wet Bandits are staggered across a string of clumsy sequences, with the bad guys repeatedly finding new excuses to break into the house and then leave again. You might have thought that the high-tech gadgetry would provide a lot of new opportunities for wacky slapstick sequences involving Marv and Vera, but I guess the writers figured that was too obvious. Did the wardrobe department get them mixed up? Marv looks and behaves very differently than he did in the old days, and curiously he wears Harry's black stocking cap in every scene. For some reason, Harry has hung up his crowbar, so instead we get Marv and his loving wife Vera, who scheme to kidnap a crown prince who will be spending Christmas with Natalie. (In case you're keeping score, no, Kevin is neither at home nor alone.)īut since this is a Home Alone movie, inevitably the Wet Bandits have to make their appearance sooner or later. Fortunately, grandmotherly housekeeper Molly is there to look out for him.
Left with the run of the place during the workday, Kevin enjoys playing with the voice-controlled gadget that controls doors, fireplaces, and showerheads, but the grouchy butler Prescott wishes the little brat would go home. Actually it's more than a mansion it's a high-tech palace that rivals Smart House. Natalie is a decent person who tries her best to be a good stepmother to Kevin, but for some reason we're supposed to view her as a villain.įed up with his family as usual, Kevin decides to spend Christmas with dad and Natalie in their capacious mansion. His parents are separated, and his father plans to marry a rich woman named Natalie. Kevin's enormous family has been reduced to two siblings, Buzz and Megan, who are still bullies. However, I should add that, according to Wikipedia, Daniel Stern refused to appear in this picture, calling it "an insult, total garbage." This quote is unsourced and unverifiable, but what would you have said if they'd asked you to play Marv?Īs I mentioned before, this movie was released 10 years after Home Alone 2, but all the characters are played by different, much younger actors. Daniel Stern is a reliable character actor, and French Stewart does all he possibly can with the material he has to work with here. I called it "despicable," urged readers never to watch it "under any circumstances," and even made sarcastic comments about actors French Stewart and Daniel Stern. Well, here's a low-hanging fruit that deserves more than the one-paragraph treatment I gave it in my Home Alone review in 2012.
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