I fell in love with the movie when I was little, I really did. A story about left alone by his parents by accident and he saves his house full of bumbling thieves. It's something you can't make up today (although they have made so many re dones that if John Hughes saw them he'd be turning in his grave)
Then in 1992... Home Alone 2 Lost in New York. This time, the kid goes to New York by mistake and the same thing occurs that it did in the last movie, only in a different setting.
The same bumbling idiots, the same slap stick and what not. However; I noticed the similarities and differences in both movies.
In the first movie, my favorite one, Kevin gets in a fight with the family the day before everyone leaves for Paris and ends up in the attic where a bed is made for company that came to visit.
In the remake, it's a little different, in a school play Kevin's older brother torments him and Kevin punches him and ruins the play, apparently, same cicero incuse. The next day come for both Home alone one and two, but in Home Alone one, everyone is so frazzled and woke up late that they were very close to missing their flight to Paris; however, they never woke up Kevin
In the remake, same thing, but Kevin was awake and waiting. A little bit too boring in that part.
And also I realized, the people he's afraid of, whether it would be a next door neighbor with a sad passed or a who loves pigeons in NYC and lives alone, it's sort of the same thing.
Kevin, faces his fear, talks to them, and they becomes friends. But I feel the first one has more heart and a touching story seeing that the neighbor and his grown son never got along and he would only see his granddaughter in church.
The thing that remained the same are the villains, played the amazing talents of Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern (if you see how he [and maybe MaCully Culken] look today you'd be surprised)
They want to rob Kevin's house in the first movie
and the toy store in the sequel. Kevin does his best, in anyway to stop them. He does with both, saving his house and the toy store in success as well as being saved the friend he made in both movies.
Also there are more characters and people to deal with when he's in New York mostly in the hotel, like the Concierge and the bellman and many more that knew he was using his father's credit card the whole time.
(Tim Curry is hilarious in that role, and creepy)
He tries stalling them the way he did with the pizza guy and one of the crooks in the first one, playing a video where a mob boss shoots one but makes it look real. Hilarity.
And the end, there are both outbursts of the brother and the father from the first movie and the second movie as Kevin sees a happy ending for the person he became friends with.
I think if I had to pick which one was my actual favorite, and I do, Of course it's first.
Why? Even though there were more characters, plots and flowing narrative, I feel the first had more of the heart and I grew to love it ever since I was a little kid, and every time I see it as one of my top favorite Christmas movies to watch. Don't get me wrong. I don't hate the second wrong it's ok. I enjoy Tim Curry's performance but I fee the first was the best and I love that more and plus there is this....
Enjoy both and remember stick to the classics. We'll miss you John Hughes. Ciao Bloggers!
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