Plot: The McCallister family is now going to Florida for the holidays. At the airport, Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) goes to the wrong boarding and goes to New York instead of Florida, where the rest of his family is. Kevin checks himself into the Plaza Hotel after tricking the staff. Meanwhile, Marv (Daniel Stern) and Harry (Joe Pesci) have escaped from prison and are now in New York with Kevin. Now, Kevin is planning to trap them again with better booby traps.
Review: The plot isn't entirely different compared to the first. The film starts off with everything pretty peaceful but than there's an argument and everyone goes against Kevin. They don't forget at home, but he gets lost at the airport. It's an improvement- sort of. The plot isn't all that different. There's a fake movie called Angels with Filthy Souls in the first one and there's another fake movie in this movie called Angels with Even Filthier Souls. We had Old Man Marley in the first one and now we have a Pigeon Lady. So it's not that different.
The acting is good and keeps on giving. Macaulay Culkin is just as good as he is in the first one. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern are hilarious as the burglars. Catherine O'Hara and John Heard are good as Kevin's parents. I also liked Dana Ivey, Tim Curry and Rob Schneider, who play employers of the Plaza Hotel. Brenda Fricker plays a Pigeon Lady and I really liked her.
Now for the booby traps. I wrote in my review of Home Alone (1990) that the booby traps are just cartoon violence for the most part and it's lucky that the burglars are still alive. The same applies for this movie, but the booby traps just got bigger and better or worse depending on how you look at it. We had some booby traps from the first one (going back to my point that the plot isn't that original) like the torched head, the paint cans thrown in the face except they use pipes instead. Like the first movie, it's lucky the burglars are even still alive. They get bricks thrown in their faces and fall from who knows how many feet. There are even parts where we hear bones breaking and cracking. Some kids watching might not like that.
We also have some nice touching scenes as well. We have some nice scenes with Kevin and the Pigeon Lady. We also have a nice scene with Kevin and Mr. Duncan, a toy store owner. So there's another good balance between comedy and drama. The ending scene is also very touching.
I like this and it's almost as good as the first. But like the first, the movie is very cartoonish and we just have to accept that. I accept certain parts of both movies, but some I just can't get over. But this is still a nice, entertaining movie for the holiday season.
Rating: 3.5/5
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