Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

The one thing which we all wanted at some point or the other as a kid, was to have our freedom...Freedom from our parents, our home, our city even...and the want to just go and explore things on your own without supervision or guidance. We may fall on our face, or we might just push our potential to another level and rediscover what we are capable of doing, which obviously might surprise us at the same time. The Home Alone series captured this feeling and made an absolutely fun family holiday movie series, the best of which is clearly the movie I am reviewing right now.
There might be very few people among you who are reading who wouldn't have seen this movie, and keeping that in mind, I'll skip the synopsis. But for those who still haven't had the opportunity to see it, well, the title says it all. The Wet Bandits return and this time they are in for more torture by the hands of our very own protagonist-Kevin. This was the obvious bit and the expectation before we could even see this movie. But what sets this apart from the previous one are so many things:
Firstly, the involvement of the Bird Lady played by Brenda Fricker is easily the best and most touching addition to the movie. The relationship between Kevin and her is shown in such a beautiful way and is perfect in every scene of theirs.
Secondly, the involvement of New York-probably the best looking place in America during Christmas. Just the scenery of the stores and the decor is enough to make you want to be there at this time of the year. There's just so many dimensions to the city and this is probably my personal favorite picturisation of the city in a movie.
Lastly of course, there's the fictional gangster movie-'Angels with even filthier souls' which is even more hillarious than the first one and bringing in Rob Schneider for the scene just lifts it up a notch higher. Absolutely brilliant!!

Macaulay Culkin as Kevin is again a standout as in the first one with his misheveous smile and a screen presence that even established actors sometime lack. But of course, the first 2 movies were indeed tailor-made for him in every which way and there couldn't have been anyone better.
As is the same with Director Chris Columbus who is brilliant with Kids' movies ( he also directed the 1st 2 parts of Harry Potter ) by carefully tackling the plot in such a manner that the antics don't look repetitive.

All in all, it's good clean family fun and a movie that anyone will enjoy this Christmas.
I'm going with 4 out of 5 for Home Alone 2. Watch it to see how a comedy worked in the 90's.

Happy Holidays and Keep Reeling!!