to find out OSA’s favorite holiday movie so I could review it, I asked 25 students from OSA what their favorite holiday movies were, and collected the top ten movies that OSA loves. After lots of interviews, Instagram polls, and Snapchat stories, OSA decided that Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, the sequel to the famous Christmas movie, Home AlonE was it's favorite holiday movie - Phoebe lefebvre, 8th grade
To find out OSA’s favorite holiday movie so I could review it, I asked 25 students from OSA what their favorite holiday movies were, and collected the top ten movies that OSA loves. After lots of interviews, Instagram polls, and Snapchat stories, OSA decided that Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, the sequel to the famous Christmas movie, Home Alone, was its favorite holiday movie.
Here are the results:
Here are the results:
Home Alone 2, won by just one vote over the Christmas classics, A Christmas Story and The Nightmare before Christmas.
While the first movie in the saga, Home Alone, got a 65% score via Rotten Tomatoes, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, only got a 33%. Fans said it was just, “more of the same,” and “it's a wonder he didn’t make a shot-for-shot remake.” A lot of fans also thought that it only focused on the commercial and material elements of Christmas rather than making it something special. One “super reviewer” on Rotten Tomatoes, Daniel M, said that “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is a poor sequel whose laziness frequently tips over contempt. The sheer lack of effort poured into its plot and character development is frankly shameful, and for all its nostalgic quality it can neither hold a candle to the original nor adequately stand on its own.”
So, I decided to watch Home Alone 2 to see if these negative reviews were in fact true, and to my disappointment, they were. Watching the full two hour movie felt like a waste of time that could have been much better spent. The jokes, plot, and characters were so incredibly similar to the first movie. The point of a sequel is to build on the first movie/book, but Home Alone 2 wasn’t building on the first one, but rather just cloning it with a few differences. At certain parts it felt like the writers were trying too hard to differentiate the sequel from the first film, which just made certain aspects seem so unreasonably out of place, and random. Overall, I wouldn’t recommend spending two hours on this film because it simply isn’t worth it.
