Does ‘Home Alone 3’ even count as a holiday movie at this point?
Every year, starting right after Halloween, the movie market is flooded with Christmas movies — most of which are questionable. One such film comes from the “Home Alone” franchise.
While the first two “Home Alone” movies occur during a random burglary, “Home Alone 3” has an elaborate scheme complete with a shocking change: a new actor playing Alex, the franchise’s main character, that is never explained.
Such a change begs the pressing question: What is a “Home Alone” movie without its star Macauley Culkin?
The villains in this movie are three men and one woman, all of whom have forever-changing accents, consistently stoic faces, and loads of unnecessary gadgets. But at least they could act.
Not even 20 minutes into the movie, there is an awkwardly timed montage of the villains walking through an airport. They walk in a wide line, smirking stupidly while taking up a massive space inside a busy airport. Once a cliché switching-of-bags happens, we meet the main family.
The main character may not be a horrible actor, but he certainly does have an awful script.
While the eight-year-old Alex D. Linz may look young, he ends up sounding more like a 40-year-old man when he claims something was a “figment of [his] imagination” or when he exclaims, “Oh darn it!” while he watches a trap fail.
The villains start their plan by stealing a dog, which is upsetting in and of itself. The villains also try to kill the main character’s rat after a troubling rat-in-the-pants scene.
Perhaps the most problematic is the movie’s violence. On top of the violence against animals, the little boy’s traps are pretty aggressive. An example is when someone falls down six stories because Alex unscrewed a series of floorboards, making the villain break every bone in her body.
At the movie’s end, viewers are left with the scene of a very contorted and broken-looking female bandit who looks like she belongs in a horror movie.
All in all, the audience was right to leave this movie with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 27%, and after watching this monstrosity, you will feel the same.
Honorable Mentions:
“The Nutcracker in 3D” — 0% Rotten Tomatoes
“Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa” — NR
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