This is well-crafted entertainment, but some of the slapstick and pointedly scatological violence makes HOME ALONE 3 a more enjoyable experience for little boys of all ages, than for little girls, who may prefer the romance of ANASTASIA. There are even touching moments, especially at the end where love abounds and Alex is vindicated. The direction is precise, and everything serves the plot. The humor, the pacing and the sight gags in HOME ALONE 3 are very well executed. As Alex says, it’s his home, and he’s going to protect it. When it is clear that his house is next, he goes about booby-trapping it to inflict the ultimate pain and embarrassment on these would-be international smugglers. Thus, the story set up is complete: Alex will be left home alone again when his Mom goes to work, and the police will not respond to his calls for help.Īlex realizes that the thieves are searching every house on the block. Again, the police miss the thieves, and Alex is given a very stern lecture about false alarms. Determined to vindicate himself, Alex calls the police again when he sees the thieves at another house in the neighborhood. The police do not believe Alex about the thieves and caution him about false alarms. By the time, Alex calls the police, the thieves have already made their getaway. The next day, when he is left briefly home alone he notices the thieves sneaking around another neighbor’s house. Hess finds the toy car and gives it to Alex in payment for shoveling the snow from her driveway. Of course, the US Air Force has an interest in recovering their chip, and so Air Force agents are chasing the thieves.īack home in the suburbs, apparently straight-laced and unbearably stuffy Mrs. If they don’t, their lives will be at the severe mercy of the Asian Mafia that paid for the chip. Thus, the chase is on for them to recover this valuable chip. Hess, picks up the wrong shopping bag, and the thieves get through the x-ray machine to find themselves stuck with San Francisco Sour Dough bread. Clever spies that they are, the four thieves place the stealth missile’s chip into a remote controlled child’s car to sneak it by airport x-ray machines.
This stealth technology will render any missile invisible. While Alex is contemplating his condition and getting into mischief because of his fertile imagination, a group of high-level industrial spies are stealing US stealth missile technology for sale to the enemies of freedom. Since his father has to travel frequently and his mother works, it is clear that he is destined to be the next little boy who will be left home alone.
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The third episode of the HOME ALONE series uses the same elements as the first two movies to construct a very fast paced, entertaining movie.Ĩ-year-old Alex Pruitt comes down with chicken pox. The HOME ALONE series has tapped into a very live nerve by focusing on the threat, real or imaginary, that children feel when home alone because a safe shelter is one of man’s four primary needs. HOME ALONE 3 may be dynamite entertainment for young boys of all ages, but the painful gags may wear thin on parents. Although protecting our home, honesty, compassion for the elderly, and other good values are presented in this movie, many people may complain that the gags are too scatological and painful. The sight gags in HOME ALONE 3 are well executed, but some of the slapstick violence goes too far. When it is clear that the thieves are coming to his house, Alex arranges to inflict pain on these smugglers: after all, it’s his home, and he’s going to protect it. The police caution Alex about false alarms. Alex notices the thieves searching the neighborhood but by the time the police arrive, the thieves have left. Hess, picks up the bag with the toy, and so the chase begins. Meanwhile, four spies steal US stealth technology and place the stolen chip in a toy car to sneak it by airport x-ray machines.
8-year-old Alex Pruitt comes down with chicken pox. HOME ALONE 3 uses the same elements as the first two movies to construct an entertaining movie.
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