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Home Alone 3

5 star:		(44)
4 star:		(22)
3 star:		(11)
2 star:		(9)
1 star:		(31)

 

 

I'll admit that I loved the first two Home Alone movies. They had a certain charm to them given the silliness of the story. This third installment oozes with something else other than charm. Everything that was great about the first two HA movies is absent from this movie. Not to mention that the story is much different than the first two.

Plot: Some hi-tech crooks hide a microchip inside of a remote-controlled toy car. During their time in the airport, their luggage gets switched with the luggage of the crotchety middle-aged woman that lives next door to the Pruitt family. The crooks realize that their luggage has been swapped with the old woman and finds out where she lives. On arrival they meet up with the snotty scamp Alex who realizes something is wrong with them and plans to thwart them while his mother is away.

Opinion: After reading the plot, you already know that this has nothing to do with the MCcallister family. That is the least of its problems. What was fresh in the first two HA movies is now mundane. Every gag is the same: people get bonked upside the head with things and fall down. Alex D. Linz is about as bland as tofu. As a matter of fact, the whole cast is about as bland as tofu. The wisecracking parrot has more personality than these cardboard cutouts in this movie. The crooks made Harry and Marv look like geniuses. Did I forget to mention that this movie is lethally dull? Plus this movie is missing what made the first two great: Heart. This movie is emotionally distant like Marla Singer(Helena Bonham Carter's character in Fight Club). Nothing about this movie is redeemable. It's all routine. You've seen it all before done better. Home Alone 3 and 4 are classic examples of "milking the cow". If you love this "movie" you love these: BABY GENIUSES, SUPERBABIES: BABY GENIUSES 2, LOOK WHO'S TALKING NOW, ARE WE DONE YET, HONEY WE SHRUNK OURSELVES and PROBLEM CHILD 2.

This one is good, but not as good as the first two. I wish that the staring people in this were brought back for the fourth one. This movie had the right Ide because Macaulay Culkin was too old to play Kevin anymore, so they moved on to a different story. Recomended.

P.S. Stay away from the fourth.

In a movie, you need the main character to have kind of magnetic presence. The new "Kevin McCallister", played by Alex Linz, doesn't have it. Sure, the storyline isn't all that bad, but he simply couldn't handle the role. I'm not sure if I've ever seen a movie worse than this, to be fair. When you have a lead actor that can't handle a part and brings nothing to the table, you're in for a disastrous 90 min film. There's nothing more to say, other than, wow, very, very bad.

Home Alone 1 was a very good movie. It was very original and it had many funny parts. Home Alone 2 was just as good, maybe even better, since it was the same actors and everything. However this Home Alone, Home Alone 3, is utterly disgusting. Its very upsetting to see a movie that has nothing at all to do with the first two movies have the same name and make the movies a trilogy. This movie and the other two movies are opposites, and they should not have let them call this movie "Home Alone 3." This Home Alone has truly tarnished the Home Alone name, and should never have been released. The plot was horrible, and it was a horrible imitation of the first Home Alone. Please do not waste your time buying this movie or even seeing it, since its a waste of 2 hours of your life. I regret seeing this movie, and this movie should be banned in America. The Home Alone name will never be the same, and that is very sad.

In the first 2 films, the kid was left alone by accident. In this one, it is deliberate. That's right, the mother leaves her small child home alone by choice. The kid is an evil genius type who has more toys than the Mythbusters. His traps are meant to maim or kill the so-called bad guys, who are so unbelievably stupid it is difficult to accept they would be smart enough to steal a computer chip. Speaking of the chip -- something like that would fail if it were handled by so many people; it has to be in an anti-static protective bag, not in a toy car. But most Hollywood types don't seem to know anything about computers. Or the range of a toy car's remote control. Or a TV remote control. Or how a small child could put barbells on a roof. Or move a 4x8 sheet of plywood...or.... In short, just about everything in this movie stretches credulity beyond even cartoon violence. This also proves that to pull off this concept you need a cast of people with talent. The original 2 films work only because of a good cast. It certainly isn't the writing. Left to the writing alone, this type of film just fails. It also leaves one with a sense of mean-spiritedness at the heart of the film. And that is because it is such an unnecessary sequel with ties to the originals in name only.

I love the first two Home Alone movies. They're classics! This one and the 4th one just completely kill the series! The acting is terrible, it isn't funny and you'd think they would at least make the story tie into the last one. They make one reference to the first two and it isn't even funny. I don't recommend this to anyone!

this movie made me cringe alot i thought going into this movie with a open mind and this movie did not meet my expections at all i totally disliked this movie alot in the end tho i actually hated it and despised it do not buy this movie at all buy a book or cd instead of this lame movie

I understand why they had to use a new actor for this movie... the original is in his 20's! But they could have changed a couple other things while they were at it. It was predictable and not very original. Sure, my kids and I laughed where we were supposed to, but it was just a rehash of the previous 2 Home Alone movies.

i watched this movie when i was about six or four years old and i never went anywhere without it i took this movie everywhere i even remember one time i took the movie to daycare how funny! anyways this movie is a great movie for the whole family its funny and very entertaining its the best home alone movie ever made although there are more home alone movies i'd have to say this one is the best!!! i love this movie! and as for the people who didint like this movie well thats their problem as for the people who are thinking about watching this movie please go ahead and try and watch it its funny,cute,and very entertaing!!

For spring break me, my mom, my mom`s friend and her children went to Colorado for vaction. Every day, after we went
skiing we`d rent a movie and watch it intill 11:00 PM or 12:00 AM. So on night my friend`s 7-year-old brother checked this out and we were entertained! I say, if this kept two 10-year-olds (Me and my friend) and a 7-year-old (my friends brother) happy, this will be good for the whole family. Oh and stop hating this cuz the actor changed! Its STILL a really good film.