![]() Instead of the McCallisters, we meet the Pruitt family and in particular the main character Alex. Home Alone 3 tells a whole different story then the original two. Home Alone 4 on the other hand.now THAT is BAD! It's a totally worthwhile and enjoyable sequel that has a bad rep for no reason. Despite these key differences of characters and theme, it still feels like it has enough continuity with the others. ![]() John Williams' theme only gets a brief recital at the start, but from then on it's an adequate (if not exceptional) score from Hans Zimmer pal Nick Glennie-Smith. Set in January, it lacks the Xmas feel of the first two, but I guess that would have just been a distraction. Yes, that is basically the whole plot but it gets enough mileage out of it and it's still very funny. They really ought to hire better criminals as they fall for every one of Alex's sadistic booby-traps. It turns out that a toy car Alex got from the old-lady across the street is actually a Trojan horse to smuggle a priceless defence microchip to the North Korean mob. Of course, no one believes an imaginative 8-year-old so he has to deal with them himself. Stuck at home with Chicken Pox with both his parents tied-up in work matters, Alex suspects foul play on his snowy street when he witnesses strangers poking around in his neighbor's house. This time around we have 8-year-old Alex Pruitt defend his house against international criminals. Of course it was a better idea to do in a different direction and with John Hughes still producing and writing you know there's going to be a good amount of imagination and creativity. I mean, how many of you would really have wanted a 16-year-old Mac Culkin doing the same-old same-old to Harry and Marv. Home Alone 3 has a lot of unfair criticism.
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