It’s biggest problem is that it marks a major change-up and downgrade in the Home Alone franchise. Were it somehow able to exist in an alternate reality in which it was a stand-alone film, it might even have spawned its own modest kiddie franchise. Home Alone 3 is a cute and completely harmless kids’ film. So Alex decides it is up to him to take out the bad guys. Alex repeatedly tries to call the police, but gets accused of false alarms, annoying his boring family. Cyndi Lauper, David Thornton) – are casing his neighborhood, looking for the toy. Now four internationally wanted super criminals – Peter Beaupre (Aleksander Krupa), Alice Ribbons (Rya Kihlstedt), Burton Jernigan (Lenny Von Dohlen) and Earl Unger (Mr. Linz), who finds himself in danger when he is given a remote control car that just so happens to farcically contain a top secret microchip. Our new lil’ hero is Alex Pruitt (Alex D. We’ve moved onto a new family: the Pruitts. It seems that after losing Kevin twice in two years, the McCallister clan finally got their shit together, or at least stopped taking big Xmas trips together. The series spans four films, from 1990 to 2002. The franchise’s hallmarks are the clever ruses and cartoon violence that our lil’ hero uses against the adult antagonists. The Franchise: Home Alone - a “themed franchise” dealing with scenarios in which a small boy winds up alone in an adult world where he must fend for himself while also being pitted against the nefarious activities of adults. I have donned my sweats and taken up cinema’s gauntlet. But a champion has risen from the rabble to defend us. And any film, no matter how seemingly stand-alone, conclusive, or inappropriate to sequel, could generate an expansive franchise. Horror, action, comedy, sci-fi, western, no genre is safe.
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