HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK (1992) * John Heard and Catherine O'Hara lose their kid on Christmas Eve, again, and spend the rest of the film bitching at everyone else like it's their fault. How dare they speak to Tim Curry in that manner! Speaking of whom--if remaking How the Grinch Stole Christmas was a good idea, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't, but if it was...Curry would have been a much better Grinch than Jim Carrey. Well, your dog would have been a better Grinch than Jim Carrey, but so far as humans go Curry would have made a damn fine Grinch. There's an absolute elegance to his nausea-inducing qualities. Here he combines with Dana Ivey to give the Plaza Hotel the sort of conniving, ass-kissing staff that only lesser hotels can aspire to. Just watching the two of them interact with equally demented patrons might have been a good film. Instead we get poor Maccaulay Culkin being led by the nose by Chris Columbus into the same gags they barely got away with last time. No, substituting beads for little cars with bead-like wheels isn't original. Paint, home improvement instrumentation, yeah, yeah, blah, blah, quack, quack, quack. I can't believe that John Hughes was so desperate to write a sequel that he overlooked the obvious and actually had Culkin lead the bad guys (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern more dull than you've ever seen them) away from a big toy store. I mean, Hughes couldn't have found anything more interesting than kerosene to work with in there? Probably not, actually.
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