![]() ![]() Max goes through the same celebration of childish freedom that we’ve seen for over three decades, complete with eating overwhelming amounts of junk food, and doing exactly what his parents have told him not to do when they were around. Once more, this goes through the same beats of the other films, albeit in a truncated version. ![]() In a strange way, Home Sweet Home Alone almost makes the home alone kid secondary to this story, which might be for the best. A couple trying to do their best to stay afloat doesn’t deserve third-degree burns and Nerf guns full of darts with tacks attached to them. Making matters worse, it feels sort of tone-deaf to have this couple who are struggling to get by having to break into a clearly rich family’s home in order to keep their own home. Yet in shifting this focus, it also makes the audience care for these characters, to a point that they don’t want to see this well-meaning duo get hurt through inventive and painful ways. ![]() What they don’t know is that young Max has been left home alone, and after seeing the Fritzovskis near his house, Max assumes that this couple is trying to kidnap him, and decides he has to protect himself and his home.įocusing on the criminals is an interesting direction to take this story, and Kemper and Delaney are easily the best group of burglars that this franchise has seen since Harry ( Joe Pesci) and Marv ( Daniel Stern). Even though the Fritzovskis don’t want to break and enter, their money problems make this an urgent matter, as they decide they need to get into the house and get that doll. The Fritzovskis arrive at Max’s house just in time to see the Mercer family leaving for Christmas vacation, yet they also see where the family left their keys while they’re gone. When they try to find the doll, they discover it missing, and assume that Max must’ve taken it. Soon after, the Fritzovskis notice that one of the dolls is extremely rare and worth $200,000, a clear solution to their dire money problems. With Jeff out of work, the couple has to sell their family home, and during an open house, they meet Max Mercer ( Archie Yates), who pokes fun at a box of old dolls that Jeff finds in his closet. Home Sweet Home Alone maintains this format for the most part, but tells this story through the eyes of the “criminals,” Pam and Jeff Fritzovski, played by Ellie Kemper and Rob Delaney, respectively. Most of the Home Alone films so far have followed a similar structure: a kid gets left at home with little or no supervision, a group of criminals try to rob the house, and said kid tries to defend his home. ![]()
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