![]() ![]() Kate Erbland of IndieWire also found “Home Sweet Home Alone” to be uneven, criticizing its decision to make the child protagonist a jerk and the villains to be sympathetic. Mean-spirited, downright sloppy and awkwardly unfunny, this rote feature reboot lacks holiday cheer. “While this might seem like an ingenious way to reinvigorate a long-run-into-the-ground franchise where a child faces off against bumbling burglars, this Disney Plus offering maddeningly fails to lean into the aspects it so desperately and ambitiously seeks to change. “Who’s the real victim here? The audience - yet Kemper’s no-nonsense pixie who suffers a dozen thumbtacks to the face runs a close second.”Ĭourtney Howard of Variety criticized the filmmaker’s decision to make Kemper and Delaney’s villains somewhat sympathetic, as they attempt to save their home from foreclosure by reclaiming an antique doll worth six figures they believe Max has stolen from them. “Īmy Nicholson of the New York Times called “Home Sweet Home Alone” a “painful” film more concerned with entertaining nostalgic adults instead of children that fails at both. ![]() And there’s a montage of Max living large on his first day alone in the house-a sequence that, unlike most of the movie, is actually kind of cute. “You’ve got knowing dialogue about how it’s futile to ‘remake the classics,’ of-the-moment references to Alexa-type devices, eye-rolling hipster jokes, and a pat ending where everyone learns a little something about the true meaning of home. Club’s Katie Rife gave “Home Sweet Home Alone” a C, and spent the bulk of her review writing about how the plot functions as class warfare, admitting she didn’t have anything else to write about because “there’s not really much else going on.” But the script by ‘SNL’ vets Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell is consistently funny without the painful pratfalls, and Delaney and Kemper (along with Kenan Thompson, ‘Veep’s’ Tim Simons and Devin Ratray, Buzz from the original ‘Home Alone,’ reprising his role) keep the laughs clipping at a steady pace. “ “A little bit of the Looney Tunes-style violence goes a long way. What prevents the film from being just another limp bot-written recital is a surprisingly sharp sense of humour, with a script from the Saturday Night Live duo Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell and direction from Borat’s Dan Mazer, a more comically adept behind-the-camera team than one would expect from a Home Alone sequel.”Īdam Graham of the Detroit News had similar praise for Seidell and Day’s script. “‘Home Sweet Home Alone’ is a surprisingly entertaining, if wholly unnecessary, sequel, a tangerine where we expected to find a lump of coal. Guardian critic Benjamin Lee wrote that given the lackluster response from fans and critics, he found the film “surprisingly entertaining,” thanks to a “sharp” sense of humor instilled by the screenwriters and director. ![]()
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