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Home Alone
Starring: Macaulay Culkin
Directed by: Chris Columbus
Rated PG
Genre: Family
Synopsis: A family in a rush
to get to the airport for a Christmas vacation, accidentally leave 8 year
old Kevin at home to fend off burglars.
My Thoughts: This is the
ultimate kid power movie and is also one of the highest grossing movies
ever grossing about $477 million dollars. Impressive.
Scorecard
Acting- Macaulay
Culkin at eight years old, and does a great job for an eight year old. Joe
Pesci and Daniel Stern as the "Wet Bandits" were very
entertaining and did a decent enough job in their roles. (1)
Direction- This
film had perfect flow to it. There was some down time, but there wasn't a
lot of it to keep the rating down. (1)
Story-
Kid gets left behind and fights off bad guys. Not a great story, but it
was good enough to keep kids and their parents entertained. (1/2)
Expectations-
When I first saw this movie, I didn't even know what expectations meant. I
was hoping this would be an awesome movie, it was fun, but not awesome. (1/2)
Boring?-
While there wasn't a whole lot of boring spots, it was repetitive and it
really hurt the quality of the movie. (1/2)
Final Score: 3
1/2 out of 5
Final Thoughts: This was a
fun movie, especially for kids. This was the first of many Home Alone
movies, and like most, it just goes downhill from here.
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