Kevin’s traps in Home Alone 2 are straight up diabolical
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Home Alone 2 is a viscerally unpleasant movie. The first one is unpleasant too but the second one is just mean.
I just watched these last week and god damn---these guys would be dead ten times over.
Agreed. Home Alone 2 was just a copy/paste of the first one, but without any amount of heart.
Kevin was right to hate his family. They were horrible to him in the opening of the first movie. Not to mention the whole thing where they leave him at home.
Accurate, too. Jets should have drafted him but they let him leave the city without a contract.
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Ironically Kevin is always polite and kind to most people. If you get on his shit list though he gets sinister.
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its so elaborate it had to take more than the movie time they gave him especially given how run down the place was.
Like dropping an iron on his head in the first movie wouldn't have done the same thing.
No heart?! Home Alone 2 has Donald Trump!
No heart?! Home Alone 2 has Donald Trump!
Oh yeah those traps are something haha.
It's one of my favorite Christmas movies for sure. Fun and heart-warming moments.
It's one of my favorite Christmas movies for sure. Fun and heart-warming moments.
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This movies so fucking terrible.
It goes from the first one, with a cute kid in over his head and the suspense/hilarity that ensues from that...
To the second one, where Kevin is a literal fucking sociopath and these people should be dead.
It goes from the first one, with a cute kid in over his head and the suspense/hilarity that ensues from that...
To the second one, where Kevin is a literal fucking sociopath and these people should be dead.
It's supposed to be cartoonish and like the Looney Tunes. If we want to get realistic and serious, they are going to straight up murder him if they catch him. Kevin is in his right to fuck them up.
This. Kevin's real sin was letting the biggest criminal in the film walk away unscathed.
The brick scene is the best part of the whole movie. It's like an anti-joke. You spend the whole movie looking forward to seeing the new elaborate traps, but then Kevin just throws a brick at their face.
It's almost like something you would see in a parody of Home Alone. It's hilarious.
It's almost like something you would see in a parody of Home Alone. It's hilarious.
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Oh boy, here we go. Forgive me Professor Beef I held off as long as I could. It is time to bring back The Rant™.
Kevin McAllister is a rich, white, suburban American kid whose stupid family is obscenely wealthy. Not just his immediate family, but his extended family as well. Not only is the McAllister dynasty wealthy enough to support a Parisian vacation over the holidays with 11 horrible children, but the other McAllister terror cell they are visiting is rich enough to be kicking it back in Paris while their entire multifloor Manhattan townhouse undergoes extensive renovations. This is a family whose wealth knows no measure or limit. The financial security Kevin enjoys as an upper class young boy cannot be overstated. Kevin McAllister is a boy with no concept whatsoever of want besides superficial desires like cheese pizza.
In Home Alone 2, Kevin finds himself lost in Manhattan with his father's credit card. Kevin has unlimited money to do whatever he wants. So he does. He goes to The Plaza Hotel, one of the most luxurious hotels in the city, and tricks the staff in to giving him a room. While we are meant to be impressed with Kevin's antics, this is only the beginning of a long series of humiliations he exerts over the service workers at this hotel as Kevin lords over them all with his generational wealth.
While Home Alone 1 has Kevin defending himself from would be home invaders in a life threatening situation, the service staff at The Plaza poses no such threat to him. They are not invading his space, he is invading theirs. Every single one of them are there because it's their job to be. They are doing their jobs - over the holidays no less - as Kevin manipulates them to fulfill his luxurious whims. We are meant to find it hilarious how he degrades and debases them. He doesn't tip them, he subjects them to repeated embarrassment, and ultimately makes them afraid for their lives as he simulates a mass shooting. We saw a glimpse of this in Home Alone 1 with the pizza delivery boy, but in Home Alone 2, Kevin's treatment of the wage staff at this hotel is inhumane. What we see here is that upper class Kevin exerting unearned dominance over the working class with extreme prejudice.
There is not a single hotel employee that has done anything to earn Kevin's abuse beyond do their jobs. Yet he makes them afraid they will be murdered if they dare step out of line. This is shameful.
However, where the movie is really beyond the pale is in regards to Kevin's relationship with "the pigeon lady." This homeless woman isn't even given the dignity of a name in this film. At first, Kevin perceives her with fear and disgust. He attempts to run from her but fumbles and becomes stuck. She helps him and Kevin momentarily shows a glimmer of humanity as he realizes it was wrong to be afraid of her. This moment of empathy is brief however as Kevin's selfishness and sociopathy does not allow for any actual understanding of anyone below his social class.
This woman explains that she wasn't always homeless. She once had a home and a man she loved very much but it ended badly. This incident gave her PTSD and now she is distrustful of others and is unable to function in society. She calmly and bravely opens up to Kevin about her past trauma and her subsequent dehumanization in an uncaring society that forsakes the mentally ill. And do you know how Kevin responds? He says yeah, he gets it, because he's the youngest in his disgusting family. He then tells her to get over it and that only by opening herself up to love again will she ever not be a homeless lady covered in bird shit again. Straight up, to her vulnerable face, Kevin tells a homeless woman that she is responsible for her own prolonged destitution and that if she wants people to treat her better she needs to get over her mental illness. Kevin then goes home to his luxury hotel where he has every whim of his indulged by service workers he humiliates.
Seriously, he has unlimited money. He couldn't have gotten her a place to stay? Or invited her to stay with him? He couldn't share his unlimited food with her? He didn't even offer to let her take a shower. He descends from his nearly-llteral ivory tower, blames a shit covered mentally ill homeless woman who suffers nonstop dehumanization that she needs to get over her PTSD, and at the end of a movie he gives her a fucking bird ornament to show her how much he cares about her. How does he sleep at night in his king size bed at The Plaza Hotel knowing that someone who opened up to him about her inescapable poverty and trauma is sleeping on the street in the cold? What is wrong with this monster?
Home Alone 2 is a perverse Christmas Carol. It is the story of a spoiled rich young boy whose time with the working class and the poor motivates him to torment or abandon them. Even his supposedly virtuous gesture of preventing the toy store robbery costs him nothing. It's not his money. It's not his donation. Kevin does nothing except take a tour of what it's like to be less fortunate than him and live it up in a Trump Hotel.
The Wet Bandits were right to want to kill Kevin and I always hope they catch him. 😡
Where is she even supposed to put that bird ornament?? She doesn't have a Christmas tree. She is homeless. She is surrounded at all times by actual, living birds. What does she want a fake one for?? Fuck you Kevin.
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Pssh. It's the STICKY Bandits. Did you even watch this movie??
Yep, and Batman dodges fucking bullets. And I mean, he handles The Riddler, who is probably about equal to Kevin.
