by Brian Phelps
Home Alone 2 is tied with the original Home Alone and The Santa Clause as my favorite Christmas movies of all-time. The original Home Alone plot was an exaggerated but fairly plausible story. Now Home Alone 2 on the other hand my friends, was so over-the-top it wasn't even funny. I'm not going to nitpick the booby traps because we all know most of those traps would've killed the crooks, so I'm going to nitpick the plot itself. This movie takes so many leaps and bounds over logic it'll make your head spin.
1) At the airport, what are the odds that after Kevin lost his dad that another man wearing the exact same outfit and haircut would run by?
2) When Kevin bumped into the woman at the gate and spilled all the trip tickets on the floor... there is no way that they would've just boarded him anyway. At best, they would have the flight attendants come over the intercom and request Kevin's family to come up to the front to sort things out.
3) There is no way a hotel would let a child check in alone.
4) What are the odds that Kevin would "randomly" bump into Harry and Marv MULTIPLE TIMES on the streets of a city with over 7 million people (at the time)?
5) The odds of a toy store in New York City bringing in as much revenue as Duncan's Toy Chest and not having a security camera even in 1992 is pitifully laughable.
6) The odds of Kevin and his mother meeting at the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree at the exact time on the exact same day? I'm sorry, but this reaches other worldly levels of ridiculous.
7) Just the odds of this situation happening to this same child twice is highly unlikely
8) The sheer number of adults that he came across that did not find it odd that a 10 year old boy is wandering the streets of New York City alone, and didn't bother to ask him if he needed help finding his parents is laughable. He came across hookers, taxi drivers, business owners, homeless people, etc and no one thought to ask him if he needed help finding his parents. That was the defining difference between this sequel and the original. In the first movie at the supermarket, the female cashier was asking him all about where his family was like a concerned citizen should. That didn't really happen in this movie.
I'm sure there were many other things that I could nitpick about the movie, but this is just off the top of my head this morning. Have a great Sunday everyone!
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