25 Days of Christmas: Day 15

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)

"Don't you know a kid always wins against two idiots?" - Kevin










Once again, Kevin is on his own. It's up to him to fight the bad guys and save Christmas for us all. Well, I guess it's not for all of us but it is for all the boys and girls that will be getting the cash the returning thieves are trying to get their hands on.

The family is heading to Miami for the holiday's and Kevin isn't too pleased with the situation. He wants to stay home where there are Christmas trees. It's a little silly but he's a young guy and the thought of no Christmas tree during Christmas is something that he just doesn't want to wrap his head around. So once again the family is late in getting to the airport and Kevin gets sidetracked and ends up on a plane to New York. Once there he finds himself alone and holding his dad's wallet with all his credit cards.

One hotel room at the Plaza later and Kevin is having a good old time riding in limos, visiting toy stores, and running into the two bumbling thieves from the first flick. Ok... that's not good times. But the ensuing chase and torture of the two thieves is fun.

It's pretty much the same movie as the first flick with Kevin in a different location. It's the same bad guys and nearly the same ending with Kevin loading up a house with home made booby traps designed to keep the baddies at bay. Once again he befriends a lonely older person that is scary at first but shown in the end to be a caring person who helps him out when he really needs it.

It's the same but I like it. The first movie has some charm to it that I enjoy and this one carries that same charm into the big city. I don't mind that it's a carbon copy much like the Teen Wolf movies. It was good the first time and it's good this time.

There are other movies in the series but none of them featured the original cast and characters and went straight to DVD or cable. I remember watching one of them once but I don't think it was any good and I'm not sure I made it through the whole movie. They managed to capture lighting in a bottle twice and that was the end of it.