![]() He’s simply the sardonic child archetype with little character beyond his quips at his mom’s expense. This is the same kid whose precocious deadpan stole entire scenes in Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit, although it’s of little use in a role as basic as Max. Incidentally, the kid in question is named Max, and he’s played by the young and previously charming Archie Yates. Perhaps intended for some of the same audience, this might explain the choice to make Home Sweet Home Alone as much about the bumbling burglars of the piece as the child who’s been left behind. It happily goes through the motions of its thankless assignment with all the cheerfulness of a Hallmark Christmas movie. Not that this Disney+ product is looking for much aid. No, that bit of exploitation comes later. But Home Sweet Home Alone plays like an afterthought that was penciled onto a spreadsheet somewhere-a project which will begin with the Fox fanfare like it’s the grave robber who chuckles about the tomb he’s raiding, but then has the pure ineptitude or quiet embarrassment to not also shoehorn in John Williams’ majestic Home Alone score at the top of the movie. Disney rolls out the red carpet when they’re mining their own vaults for animated classics to remake, or when capitalizing on a $4 billion investment in Lucasfilm. The unique bit of ugliness about Home Sweet Home Alone’s cynicism, however, is that it’s not even nostalgia done particularly well. But Home Sweet Home Alone? The belated and opportunistic “legacy sequel” which attempts to manipulate your childhood nostalgia into crass dollar signs? That’s a modern Disney maneuver through and through. They even made that horrible Home Alone 3 back in ’97 you forgot existed. That fallen movie studio was of course no collection of saints when it came to milking popular IPs. ![]() It seems particularly cruel that the first thing we see in Home Sweet Home Alone is the 20th Century Fox fanfare-and yes, it is still the Fox fanfare when the floodlights come on and the brass section plays, no matter the text on the screen.
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