Home Sweet Home Alone
After being left at home by himself for the holidays, 10-year-old Max Mercer must work to defend his home from a married couple who tries to steal back a valuable heirloom.
- Released: 2021-11-12
- Runtime: 93 minutes
- Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
- Stars: Archie Yates, Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney, Pete Holmes, Aisling Bea, Jayne Eastwood, Cara Ricketts, Catherine Cohen, Devin Ratray, Mikey Day, Kenan Thompson, Ally Maki, Chris Parnell, Timothy Simons, Katie Beth Hall, Max Ivutin, Andrew Daly, Maddie Holliday, Jordan Carlos, Tristan D. Lalla, Nick Allan, Claudio S. Capri, Phyllis Gooden, Esther Povitsky, Marty Adams, Jim Rash, Amy Okuda, Bronwen Mantel, Peter Schoelier, Nancy Helms, Gayle Garfinkle, Jane Gilchrist, Hazel Gorin
- Director: Dan Mazer
Comments
- robert-macc - 18 April 2024
This is actually acclaim-worthy
Unlike the disasters that followed the first 3, this one truly hits it hard. It's a well-done movie from start to finish. Acclaimed British child actor, in what appears to be one of his first big roles, Archie Yats is the main star, Max Mercer, a somewhat rugrat of a kid, who has an attitude. He sees a doll of value and takes it from the main cast. The beautiful Irish actress Aisling Bea is his gorgeous mom, Carol Mercer. She has a sultriness to her that makes her a knockout.
They go to the house of our other protagonists. It's the house of the main patriarch Jeff McKenzie (played by Rob Delaney, who feels like a throwback to every borderline mean 80s movie protagonist) who's doing everything to avoid selling their home, and his wife is Pam McKenzie (played by the equally stunning Ellie Kemper). They organize a plan to take back their doll.
The movie is fuzzy, and there's a shocking twist, which I may have hinted it, for anyone who can get it right away. A nice movie and like "3," much better than the first and "2," but then again Chris Columbus's somewhat establishment comments about this movie makes him on my list of people I find questionable to begin with. - eleanorklumpkin - 15 December 2023
I found it thoroughly enjoyable
I don't think it's a wonderfully profound story but it is fun and entertaining. My family and I are big Ellie Kemper fans and it was interesting to see the robbers backstory in this version. I'm not super big into the whole "watching people get hurt as comedy" but this movie was more about goofy misunderstandings than the original home alone movies. Max (Archie Yates) is a great successor to Kevin McCallister. I like that Max is only trapping and hurting the interlopers because he's afraid and everything is sorted out in the end. I really like redemption arcs and seeing the "robbers" become friends with Max's family was very wholesome.
