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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York |  | Director: Chris Columbus
Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  152 reviews
Sales Rank: 2240
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 024543027195
UPC: 024543027195
EAN: 0024543027195
ASIN: B000641D2Y
Theatrical Release Date: November 20, 1992
Release Date: October 5, 1999
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Product Description
Young Kevin is on his own again, but this time, he is loose in New York City with credit cards enough to allow for fun. Then he runs into his old enem
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This somewhat unpleasant 1992 sequel to the blockbuster Home Alone revisits the first film's gimmick by stranding Macaulay Culkin's character in New York City while his family ends up somewhere else. Again, the little guy meets up with colorful people on the margins of society (including a pigeon woman played by Brenda Fricker) and again he gets into a prop-heavy battle with Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. The latter sequence is even worse than the first film in terms of violence inflicted on the two villains (director Chris Columbus, who also made the first film, can't seem to emphasize the slapstick over the graphic effects of the fight). The best running joke finds a concierge (Tim Curry) at the swank hotel where Culkin is staying trying and failing to prove that the boy is on his own. --Tom Keogh
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Good value. August 26, 2010
L. Munz (Westchester County, NY)
My daughter purchased this DVD since she loves this movie. The DVD box showed a little wear but the DVD works fine.
 WHAT NOT TO DO WHEN GOING ON VACATION !!!! August 10, 2010
wetdreams47
MOVIE #1: WAS A CHILD LEFT BEHIND BY PARENTS THAT WERE IN A HURRY TO LEAVE BECAUSE THEY WERE LATE....
MOVIE #2: WAS A CHILD LEFT ALONE BY PARENTS THAT WERE NOT BEING CAREFUL WITH FAMILY BELONGS....WHILE GOING ON VACATION...
MOVIE #3: WAS A CHILD LEFT ALONE BY WORKING PARENTS...AND DID NOT HAVE A NANNY TO CARE FOR CHILDREN IN HOMES...
MOVIE #4: not yet viewd by me....
 I have a feeling that "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" is going to be an enormous box office success, but include me out July 22, 2010
I didn't much like the first film, and I don't much like this one, with its sadistic little hero who mercilessly hammers a couple of slow-learning crooks. Nor did I enjoy the shameless attempt to leaven the mayhem by including a preachy subplot about the Pigeon Lady of Central Park. Call me hardhearted, call me cynical, but please don't call me if they make "Home Alone 3." I know, I know - the violence is all a joke. Some of the gags are lifted directly from old color cartoons, and in spirit what we're looking at here are Road Runner adventures, with the crooks playing the role of Wile E. Coyote. As the two hapless mopes fall down ladders and get slammed by bricks and 500-pound bags of cement, and covered with glue and paint and birdseed, you can hear the cackling of the old Looney Tunes heroes in the background. And just like in the cartoons, the crooks are never really hurt; they bounce back, dust themselves off, bend their bones back into shape and are ready for the next adventure. When little Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) taunts them ("Hey! Up here!"), he sounds like Bugs Bunny, and when they chase him (always unwisely), they're in the tradition of Elmer Fudd.
The problem is, cartoon violence is only funny in cartoons.
Most of the live-action attempts to duplicate animation have failed, because when flesh-and-blood figures hit the pavement, we can almost hear the bones crunch, and it isn't funny. Take, for example, the scene in "Home Alone 2" where Kevin lures the crooks into trying to crawl down a rope from the top of a four-story townhouse. He has soaked the rope in kerosene, and when they're halfway down, he sets it on fire. Ho, ho.
The movie repeats the formula of the best-selling original film.
Once again, Kevin's forgetful family leaves home without him (he gets on the plane to New York instead of Miami), and once again they fret while he deals effortlessly with the world. He checks into the Plaza Hotel on his dad's credit card and has time for heartwarming conversations with a kindly old toy shop owner (Eddie Bracken) and a homeless bird lover (Brenda Fricker), not to mention Donald Trump, before running into his old enemies, the crooks (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern). When he discovers they plan to rob the toy store, whose receipts are destined for a children's hospital, he knows he has his work cut out for him. ("Messing with kids on Christmas Eve - that's going too far!") The kid outsmarts the usual assortment of supercilious adults, including hotel clerk Tim Curry, before setting a series of ingenious traps for the crooks. As before, he seems to have a complete command of all handyman skills, including rigging ladders and wiring appliances for electrical shocks - and, of course, he finds all the props he needs, even for rigging the exploding toilet and setting that staple gun to fire through the keyhole.
In between the painful practical jokes, there's his treacly relationship with Fricker, as the Pigeon Lady, who shows him her hideaway inside the ceiling of Carnegie Hall. Christmas carols swell from the concert below as the sanctimonious little twerp lectures the old lady on the meaning of life. If he believes half of what he says, he'd give the crooks a break.
Is this a children's movie? I confess I do not know. Millions of kids will go to see it. There used to be movies where it was bad for little kids to hurt grown-ups. Now Kevin bounces bricks off their skulls from the rooftops, and everybody laughs. The question isn't whether the movie will scare the children in the audience. It's whether the adults will be able to peek between their fingers.
 Never received the item. July 16, 2010
Bethany S. Fogarty
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I did not receive this item... and my little boys were quite disappointed!!!!! :(
Home Alone 2 July 11, 2010
grandmalvaiden
My purchase was for my grandson 6 years old. He only sees animated movies and I thought it was time for what I call a real movie, so he could relate to everyday life.
He loved it, after viewing the first Home Alone this one was a piece of cake.
He laughed and laughed and has seen it over 5 times already.:)
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