Home Alone-Don't try this at Home!!

To be aired on Star Movies

November 7th

6:50pm

The holiday season beckons and it's time to revisit a classic. This 1990 comedy directed by Chris Columbus is seen by all and forgotten by a few. It's probably among the first kids' movies that I ever saw, and you have to give it up for the recall value of this film which still doesn't look dated 21 years later and still holds it's own in spite of the repetitive gags.
For the ones who haven't managed to see this yet, here's a glimpse of the plot-Mackaulay Culkin, our very own John McCalister is a kid who doesn't like his family very much. He hates being bullied by his elder brother Buzz...Hates the fact that he has to share a bed during the holidays with his cousin who pees in his sleep. and hates the fact that he has to go with his huge family for a holiday to Paris.
Fortunate for him-he gets left behind accidentally and has the whole house to himself.He eats junk food, trashes his brother's room, watches a gangster film and more-basically everything he probably wouldn't be allowed to do otherwise. The fun is short lived though as there are 2 burglars waiting to thieve the house as they think no one is home...But little did they know that the 8 year old boy was going to be a living nightmare for them..Actually did I say the fun was short lived?...It just got started...Gag after Gag you're in awe of Kevin's character and the cuteness with which he tackles the bad guys.

Each booby trap is better than the other but my favorite moment has to be when the pizza delivery guy gets scared by the voice overs of a gangster flick which Kevin very tactfully plays the dialogues of.or also the scene where he re-creates an entire party in his house to fool the bad guys with objects lying around the house.

It's cute , it's ingenious and it's a movie that will never be forgotten.
I'm going with 4.5 out of 5.

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