stormhawk2018 There are people who say that in ignorance there is happiness. Well, I'm not at all in agreement with this statement but this time, without serving as a precedent, it's applicable. And I was happier before I knew that there was a fourth "Home Alone", a saga to which I have a special affection for being linked to my childhood. I was happy in my ignorance thinking that the saga reached a third part that I wasn't in a hurry to see because what I had heard about it wasn't very encouraging. Until one day, without being aware of the visual and neuronal torture I was going to suffer, I passed innocently on the TV channel until I saw the movie they shot: "Home Alone 4". At first I was surprised "is there a 4?" I was wondering. He had just started and his appearance as a shabby television product was already bad luck but out of curiosity (the same one that killed the cat) I decided to see it. The rest is history.Where to start? This mo...er, "thing" is supposed to be a direct sequel to the second part, resuming Kevin's adventures. But of course many years have passed and Macaulay Culkin has grown so the actors are all new and their similarities with the old ones isn't that they are minimal, it's that they are nil. And no, I'm not only talking about the physical aspect, but in the character all the characters have changed for what it costs...I say, it's impossible to see that these characters are the same as those that came out in the first two.First big flaw and that happens for the first time in this saga: the boy is disgusted, a lot of disgust. The original Kevin was adorable, Alex (the one by many hated HA3) was funny, this new "Kevin" is 100% repellent. In HA1 Kevin has 8-years-old, in HA2 has 10, but in HA4, has only 9. What is this, a prequel? To top it off, Kevin has brown hair, unlike the first 2, where he was blond (sure they are mistaking with Junior Healy from HA's competitor, "Problem Child"). But he isn't the only one, his parents (who have been divorced, already take, not very respectful with the original films) are idiots. Peter, his dad, has separated from his nice wife, Kate, for live with Natalie, a sybaritic, selfish and fluffy bunny of woman. The same brothers (only Buzz and Meghan survived, but, what the hell happened to Linnie and Jeff?), so caricatured, so many, that they are nothing more than a sad parody of the originals (even Buzz, in the first two was a teenager with a bodybuilder body, in this one, he is a wimpy little kid almost the same age as Kevin). Instead of Linnie and Jeff, we have Prescott, a butler (Erick Avari, from "The Mummy") and Molly, a maid (Barbara Babcock). And the villains? Oh, I was leaving the worst for last. Marv is back...but unified in Harry's body (Joe Pesci? No, is French Stewart, from the abysmal "Inspector Gadget 2"), and he walks around making funny faces of bad guy and overacting as if it were a movie for 3-year-old kids, nothing to do with Daniel Stern; and with a chick named Vera (Missi Pyle), apparently his girlfriend, wife, concubine or whatever, who goes around with a constipated face that can't be with her (it's supposed to be a bad face...it's supposed).The rest is already a non-stop: boring plot, stupid traps, overacting, zero grace, boredom...who has given the nod to this movie? Why have they infantilized her so much that it's stupid? What the hell were smoking who wrote the script? This fourth part is the clear example of not only knock off a saga, but to shatter it irremediably.But well, as I was happy in my ignorance (I remember those days with nostalgia) I will try to forget how this film exists, and stay with the first three (yes, plus HA3 too, although lazy, it's worthy to be part of the saga) and erase from my memory that this grotesque exists. I don't recommend it even if it's out of curiosity to see how bad it is, it sure has better movies to watch than "this".P.D. Answering to adonis98-743-186503, yeah sure, this movie was your guilty pleasure because maybe you had a crush with Missi Pyle...if you want watch good movies with her, I recommend you "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" instead of this hell. And for jeffreybai8, go to watch "Care Bears: Nutcracker Suite", this animated TV special is great and beats this abomination.

plutus1947 Why they continued making the Home Alone movies after 1 & 2 I will never know.Home Alone 1 & 2, although pretty predictable were quite hilarious in their way but 3 had me reaching for my whisky bottle and 4 reaching for the whisky bottle and my bottle of 100 sleeping pills because it was that bad.Malcolm Mcdowell is a very accomplished actor but why on earth he signed up to make this pathetic excuse for a movie completely befuddles me.The storyline was the same as all the other Home Alone movies but the script was totally non-existent. The same can be said about the direction and the acting.I must say I have seen worse movies than this but they are extremely few and far between.The movie is centred around Christmas but is certainly did not get me into the Christmas spirit (except the whisky of course) (Lol).

jeffreybai18 Are you guys crazy? On drugs? You joking? So your telling me you all hate this movie? Are you out of your mind? This movie is awesome. Hello? You kidding me right? Look I agree with all of you that home alone 1 and 2 is better. But home alone 3 and 4 is also good. So is home alone 5. Are you all crazy? I think you all need to re watch it. I really don't think this is so horrible. You joking? Are you crazy? Look home alone 4 is not horrible at all. Even though not that great, its still good. So if you never watched it, should you watch it? Oh yeah definitely. You don't have to like it, but its so worth watching. I would rather watch this movie 1 million times than getting a million dollars. I would even watch it way more that a million times if i could. Look I am not lying, its actually really good. Can't believe all you fools, that on the first page, that you all said it was bad.

Pumpkin_Man This is quite possibly one of the worst sequels I've ever seen. For starters, it was a made-for-TV movie. Kevin is still somehow 8 years old, they don't live in the same house, none of the other family members from the first two films are mentioned, and Kevin's parents are randomly getting divorced. A bratty annoying technology obsessed kid named Mike Weinberg plays Kevin this time, and he's awful. There was no way in heck he could ever try and replace Macaulay Culkin. To make things worse, they cast squinty-eyed French Stewart to play Marv. Kevin's dad is now dating a spoiled rich girl named Natalie. Kevin wants his family back together, so he sneaks to Natalie's house and they just let him stay around for awhile and play with cool technical toys. Because Natalie is rich, she has to throw a party for some Prince from another country. While Natalie and Peter are out, Marv and his new wife, Vera show up at the house to rob it, so Kevin has to play 'Jigsaw' again and stop them. (The traps in this film are terrible, lame, and generic.) My only advice is avoid this 'sequel' like the plague. It makes Home Alone 3 look like a masterpiece. I definitely would not recommend HOME ALONE 4: TAKING BACK THE HOUSE!!!