 Home Alone (Family Fun Edition) [Blu-ray] |
| Review Date: September 6, 2010 |
| Reviewer: xxx, |
| 'Home Alone' is a good movie for any family library. Prices for Blue-Ray movies are way too high. Wait to buy Blue-Ray movies! |
Alone with Action
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| Review Date: September 6, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Ker Thao, Saint Paul, MN USA |
| Kevin gets left alone at home while his family is far away. Meanwhile some bandits try to steal things from Kevin's family house, Kevin has to step up and defend the house. Don't miss out on this funny thrill ride! |
Good value
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| Review Date: August 26, 2010 |
| Reviewer: L. Munz, Westchester County, NY |
| My daughter purchased this DVD and was very happy with it. The box showed a little wear but the DVD works fine. Quick shipping. |
WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN GOING ON VACATION !!!!
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| Review Date: August 10, 2010 |
| Reviewer: wetdreams47, |
MOVIE #1: CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND/ALONE .... CARELESS SUPERVISION BY PARENTS GOING ON VACATION ....
MOVIE #2: CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND .... CARELESS SUPERVISION BY PARENTS GOING ON VACATION....
MOVIE #3: CHILDREN LEFT ALONE .... CARELESS SUPERVISION BY PARENTS WORKING WITHOUT A NANNY IN HOMEE.....
MOVIE #4: not yet watched by me.... |
Home Alone
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| Review Date: July 11, 2010 |
| Reviewer: grandmalvaiden, |
Purchased the movie for my grandson,6 years old. All he watches is animated movies and it was about time for him to be introduced to what I call a real movie.
He really loved it and enjoyed every minute of it. Laughed,laughed and laughed was surprised I purchased the Home Alone 2 for him as well. |
`Home Alone" is a splendid movie title because it evokes all sorts of scary nostalgia
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| Review Date: June 23, 2010 |
| Reviewer: , |
Being left home alone, when you were a kid, meant hearing strange noises and being afraid to look in the basement - but it also meant doing all the things that grownups would tell you to stop doing, if they were there. Things like staying up to watch Johnny Carson, eating all the ice cream, and sleeping in your parents' bed.
"Home Alone" is about an 8-year-old hero who does all of those things, but unfortunately he also single-handedly stymies two house burglars by booby-trapping the house. And they're the kinds of traps that any 8-year-old could devise, if he had a budget of tens of thousands of dollars and the assistance of a crew of movie special effects people.
The movie's screenplay is by John Hughes, who sometimes shows a genius for remembering what it was like to be young. His best movies, such as "Sixteen Candles," "Breakfast Club," "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and "Planes, Trains and Automobiles," find a way to be funny while still staying somewhere within the boundaries of remote plausibility. This time, he strays so far from his premise that the movie suffers.
If "Home Alone" had limited itself to the things that might possibly happen to a forgotten 8-year-old, I think I would have liked it more. What I didn't enjoy was the subplot involving the burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), who are immediately spotted by little Kevin (Macaulay Culkin), and made the targets of his cleverness.
The movie opens in the Chicago suburbs with a houseful of people on the eve of a big family Christmas vacation in Paris. There are relatives and kids everywhere, and when the family oversleeps and has to race to the airport, Kevin is somehow overlooked in the shuffle. When he wakes up later that morning, the house is empty. So he makes the best of it.
A real kid would probably be more frightened than this movie character, and would probably cry. He might also try calling someone, or asking a neighbor for help. But in the contrived world of this movie, the only neighbor is an old coot who is rumored to be the Snow Shovel Murderer, and the phone doesn't work. When Kevin's parents discover they've forgotten him, they find it impossible to get anyone to follow through on their panicked calls - if anyone did so, the movie would be over.
The plot is so implausible that it makes it hard for us to really care about the plight of the kid. What works in the other direction, however, and almost carries the day, is the gifted performance by young Macaulay Culkin, as Kevin. Culkin is the little boy who co-starred with John Candy in "Uncle Buck," and here he has to carry almost the whole movie. He has lots of challenging acting scenes, and he's up to them. I'm sure he got lots of help from director Chris Columbus, but he's got the stuff to begin with. He's such a confident and gifted little actor that I'd like to see him in a story I could care more about.
"Home Alone" isn't that story. When the burglars invade Kevin's home, they find themselves running a gamut of booby traps so elaborate they could have been concocted by Rube Goldberg - or by the berserk father in "Last House on the Left." Because all plausibility is gone, we sit back, detached, to watch stunt men and special effects guys take over a movie that promised to be the kind of story audiences could identify with. |
Never Tire Of It
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| Review Date: May 7, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Jeanne Scott, Seattle, Washington |
| I watch this film a lot, mainly because of the huge house in Chicago - beautiful! Plot makes no sense but one can't get distracted by that. It's just fun to see and the music is great, lots of Christmas selections that are classics. |
Great!
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| Review Date: May 2, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Jami Sue Graham, Denton, Tx USA |
| Love this movie and I shared it with my son. Just like I enjoyed when I was little. He is three and thought it was so funny. Loved it and glad to share those memories with him. |
A classic buy.
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| Review Date: March 5, 2010 |
| Reviewer: J. Hack, |
| A movie that stays as good as you remember it. 5 stars, all that needs to be said. |
Christmas gifts for two daughters in their thirties!
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| Review Date: February 6, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Manzie, Chicago, IL USA |
| This great movie was filmed in Chicago's north shore, and lots of New Trier High School students tried out to be extras in the film. Two of those students chosen were my two daughters. They are having fun watching it again - reliving memories of that experience. |
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