Home Alone Movie Review

Home Alone Movie Review

Christmas vacation in Paris simply can not wait, especially with a late start to the morning flight. The entire extended family packed into one household stuffing suitcases into disappearing trunks and squeezing their way into the car with no time to spare.

It is not difficult to forget something when leaving for vacation in such a hurry; most people do and they just repurchase the item after they make it to their destination.

However, for the McCallister family, they did not just forget something that can be repurchased later, they forgot their eight-year-old son, Kevin.

The movie Home Alone, directed by Chris Columbus, tells the experience of Kevin throughout his journey home alone on Christmas.

Kevin comes down from his isolated bedroom to find his family missing. What used to be a house like an ant colony, packed with people, is now empty.

He roams the home like a king, using his dad’s shaving supplies, sleeping in his parents bed, and basically ‘adulting’ for himself.

All the while, his mom is desperately looking for a flight back home, calling the police to check in on her son, and trying to come to terms with her parenting skills.

Back home, Kevin is living out his dream, until two robbers, Harry and Marv, take interest in the home and Kevin finds himself replaying a shooting scene from a movie to scare them off and setting up booby traps from regular household items to keep them away.

After ongoing attempts of trying to break in, the robbers finally make it inside. Just in time, Kevin’s next-door neighbor comes to the rescue and the police step in and arrest them.

Finally, the McCallister family arrives home Christmas morning and gives Kevin the greatest Christmas present he could ask for: family.

Home Alone is a classic that will be remembered for generations and, in my opinion, one of the best Christmas movies of all time.

The movie gives a warm and cozy feeling, like most Hallmark Christmas films, and provides an amazing modern take on slapstick comedy.

Home Alone can be rewatched every year and still found to be funny, and this makes it part of the amazing movie that it is known for. Home Alone is a movie everyone should be watching this Christmas season and hopefully, you’ll find the movie to be as great as I do.