Home Alone 4 (2002)

This movie gets 1 star because that's the lowest you can give a film on IMDb. This is honestly the worst film I have ever seen in my whole life and possibly the worst film I will ever see. The acting is goddamn terrible no question about it, especially the lead child who plays Kevin. The character portrayals as a whole are completely disrespectful to John Hughes' original 2 films in the franchise. The films setting is terrible, the action and comedy is cheap, the plot is lazy. Most of the films made by the Disney Channel are at least 10 times better than this. This is one of the reasons that the Home Alone franchise is considered as a cash-grabbing trash hole.

There are people who say that in ignorance there is happiness. Well, I'm not at all in agreement with this statement but this time, without serving as a precedent, it's applicable. And I was happier before I knew that there was a fourth "Home Alone", a saga to which I have a special affection for being linked to my childhood. I was happy in my ignorance thinking that the saga reached a third part that I wasn't in a hurry to see because what I had heard about it wasn't very encouraging. Until one day, without being aware of the visual and neuronal torture I was going to suffer, I passed innocently on the TV channel until I saw the movie they shot: "Home Alone 4". At first I was surprised "is there a 4?" I was wondering. He had just started and his appearance as a shabby television product was already bad luck but out of curiosity (the same one that killed the cat) I decided to see it. The rest is history.Where to start? This mo...er, "thing" is supposed to be a direct sequel to the second part, resuming Kevin's adventures. But of course many years have passed and Macaulay Culkin has grown so the actors are all new and their similarities with the old ones isn't that they are minimal, it's that they are nil. And no, I'm not only talking about the physical aspect, but in the character all the characters have changed for what it costs...I say, it's impossible to see that these characters are the same as those that came out in the first two.First big flaw and that happens for the first time in this saga: the boy is disgusted, a lot of disgust. The original Kevin was adorable, Alex (the one by many hated HA3) was funny, this new "Kevin" is 100% repellent. In HA1 Kevin has 8-years-old, in HA2 has 10, but in HA4, has only 9. What is this, a prequel? To top it off, Kevin has brown hair, unlike the first 2, where he was blond (sure they are mistaking with Junior Healy from HA's competitor, "Problem Child"). But he isn't the only one, his parents (who have been divorced, already take, not very respectful with the original films) are idiots. Peter, his dad, has separated from his nice wife, Kate, for live with Natalie, a sybaritic, selfish and fluffy bunny of woman. The same brothers (only Buzz and Meghan survived, but, what the hell happened to Linnie and Jeff?), so caricatured, so many, that they are nothing more than a sad parody of the originals (even Buzz, in the first two was a teenager with a bodybuilder body, in this one, he is a wimpy little kid almost the same age as Kevin). Instead of Linnie and Jeff, we have Prescott, a butler (Erick Avari, from "The Mummy") and Molly, a maid (Barbara Babcock). And the villains? Oh, I was leaving the worst for last. Marv is back...but unified in Harry's body (Joe Pesci? No, is French Stewart, from the abysmal "Inspector Gadget 2"), and he walks around making funny faces of bad guy and overacting as if it were a movie for 3-year-old kids, nothing to do with Daniel Stern; and with a chick named Vera (Missi Pyle), apparently his girlfriend, wife, concubine or whatever, who goes around with a constipated face that can't be with her (it's supposed to be a bad face...it's supposed).The rest is already a non-stop: boring plot, stupid traps, overacting, zero grace, boredom...who has given the nod to this movie? Why have they infantilized her so much that it's stupid? What the hell were smoking who wrote the script? This fourth part is the clear example of not only knock off a saga, but to shatter it irremediably.But well, as I was happy in my ignorance (I remember those days with nostalgia) I will try to forget how this film exists, and stay with the first three (yes, plus HA3 too, although lazy, it's worthy to be part of the saga) and erase from my memory that this grotesque exists. I don't recommend it even if it's out of curiosity to see how bad it is, it sure has better movies to watch than "this".P.D. Answering to adonis98-743-186503, yeah sure, this movie was your guilty pleasure because maybe you had a crush with Missi Pyle...if you want watch good movies with her, I recommend you "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" instead of this hell. And for jeffreybai8, go to watch "Care Bears: Nutcracker Suite", this animated TV special is great and beats this abomination.

(Credit IMDb) Kevin McCallister's parents have split up. Now living with his mom, he decides to spend Christmas with his dad at the mansion of his father's rich girlfriend, Natalie. Meanwhile robber Marv Merchants, one of the villains from the first two movies, partners up with a new criminal named Vera to hit Natalie's mansion.This is gonna be a quick review! I saw this over a year ago, and I've forgotten most of it. The only thing I really remember about it was how excruciatingly atrocious it was. I can't believe the audacity they had to try to make this a continuation of the first two movies? Home Alone is one of my favorite movies of all time! This movie tried to defecate all over the first one. Why on earth did they need to bring the character of Kevin back? He's iconic! Mike Weinberg tries, but he's no match for Culkin. Even Marv is brought back with a different actor. There are no laughs, no entertainment, just headaches. If you have a heart, please don't make your kids watch this. DUD

Mockery of Home alone 1 and 2. They put the same characters of Home alone 1 and 2 into this one, but they hired different actors. The Kevin from Home alone 1 and 2 had yellow hair, but the new Kevin has brown hair and is shorter than the Kevin from 1 and 2. Plus, this Kevin is still 9 after Home alone 2! The acting was horrible. The idiotic thieve from the first two, Marv, is no longer with Harry. He's with some Lady, but the thing is, Marv is now smart even though he was dumb in the first two. Home alone 3 was alright, but this movie makes Home alone 3 look like the best movie ever. This takes place at Kevin's Dad's new girlfriends house, and the booby traps are lame. If you want to see how bad this movie is, don't buy or rent it, watch you-tube to see how bad it is instead of wasting your money. I wasted 1 dollar to rent this movie, so don't do the same.I give this a 0.5 out of 10