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The sequel surprised me because there are some sequels in family films that aren't very good but this one was really good. One thing where I enjoyed this one but not as much as the first one was pretty much the whole plot was the same all over again with almost the exact same events occuring. I think that is where some people might not be that fond of this one because of the plot being pretty much the same. I think that is something that most people love about the Home Alone series like every time it is experienced on TV, it must be a hilarious yet quite scary experience in real life. The endings of both films are pretty much the same but in different environments and different problems but Kevin still has the same problem. The only difference is that it is Kevin is in Manhattan New York and has to look after himself and also some of the traps that Kevin sets up for Harry and Marv are quite different too whereas there are very few that are the same. If they were all the same, the film would've been an ultimate failer. If they made it slightly different, it could have been a bit better than the first one but because it was pretty much the same of everything as the first one it didn't seem as brilliant. It is a wacky coincidence that in all of the Home Alone films that the main child character in the film gets lost or goes missing every Christmas. Like I said in my review of this first film: The traps that Kevin sets for Harry and Marv are so dangerous and they hurt themselves so badly like falling down the stairs, falling of buildings, slipping off ladders etc, you could just think "How are they not dead?" The stunts and traps in this one are more dangerous because there is fire used, lots of tins and a lot of falling too.
Macaulay Culkin's return as Kevin was a fantastic one. He is still playing that over-intelligent young child who seems to know everything. Sometimes, he doesn't even seem to be real because of the unusual intelligence of the child at such a young age. It seems like it's a person with a 10-year-old body but the brain of a 17/18-year-old. Just like before, he wasn't that bothered when he lost his family again but as time drags on and especially when Harry and Marv come into the picture he begins to really miss them and wish they were with him. Culkin was 10-years-old in the first film but is 12-years-old in the second film but to be perfectly honest he doesn?t look or behave any different and neither does the Kevin character. Just like in the first film, there is someone Kevin becomes freaked out by at the start but when he speaks to them properly he becomes good friends with them. It was Marley in the first one and the Bird Lady who both help Kevin fight off Harry and Marv in each of the films. Joe Pesci and David Stern return once again as Harry and Marv. I worked it out that David Stern is exactly a foot taller than Joe Pesci. They both remind me a lot of Horace and Jasper in 101 Dalmatians: one short and fat and the other really tall and skinny. Harry's surname is Lime. Harry Lime is a very famous character in the classic film The Third Man. Marv's surname is Merchants. We find out their surnames in the sequel not in the first film. Catherine O'Hara made another irritating return as Kate McCallister.
Chris Columbus directs another brilliant Home Alone film and doesn't fail in the slightest. I am glad that Columbus only directed the first two because if he directed the third and fourth without Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, David Stern and Catherine O'Hara starring it, I think that Columbus' great works of the Home Alone films would have been a massive waste.
Home Alone 2: Lost In New York is another brilliant Home Alone film that I really enjoyed but isn't as good as the first one. The first one is better than the second by about a mile. Home Alone 2: Lost In New York is a really exciting, hilarious sequel to a family phenomenon that I really enjoyed watching.
8/10
