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No offense to the kid playing the main role instead. The home invaders this time around are played by Olek Krupa, Rya Kihlstedt, David Thornton, and Twin Peaks' Lenny Von Dohlen. Rather than petty crooks, they're international spies who, due to a luggage mix-up, have lost a stolen microchip they had stashed inside of a remote-controlled car.
Home Alone 3 steers clear of the mistakes of the previous films, and makes all new ones. Whereas 2 went too dark and violent, 3 goes too cartoonish and slapstick. Where the first film thought small, with just a pair of common burglars, 3 goes big, with a team of international terrorists. Still, the film's beginning shows some cleverness in setting up a new, original home alone situation, but it quickly devolves into garbage.
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The car ends up in the hands of eight-year-old Alex Pruitt , home alone with chicken pox. Alex, like Kevin McAllister before him, rigs a bunch of traps to fight off the bandits in his house. The movie also features a young Scarlett Johanssen in a small role as Alex's older sister. Home Alone 3 began filming in 1996, with a script by John Hughes, who also produced. But Hughes was the only big name to return for the third go-round. Home Alone 3 was the directorial debut of Scooby-Doo's Raja Gosnell, who had edited the first two Home Alone movies.
There were some bits I liked, but some bits where improvements would have been appreciated. Internet Archive's in-browser video player requires JavaScript to be enabled. 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.
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Stay up-to-date on all the latest Rotten Tomatoes news! Tap "Sign me up" below to receive our weekly newsletter with updates on movies, TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes podcast and more. I don't think the film is as bad as the rating suggests, but it does pale in comparison to the first two films, which are holiday classics to me!
Like the kid calling the police - I know the most simple solution seem the most difficult to avoid when you try to be as convenient as possible. But even as this tries this out, it has technology to make those calls go nowhere and it still does only use the technology when it wants to. Yes, that is basically the whole plot but it gets enough mileage out of it and it's still very funny. Set in January, it lacks the Xmas feel of the first two, but I guess that would have just been a distraction. John Williams' theme only gets a brief recital at the start, but from then on it's an adequate score from Hans Zimmer pal Nick Glennie-Smith.
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It's not an exaggeration to say Macaulay Culkin was the biggest child star of the early '90s. It grossed over $476 million at the worldwide box office. It also made Macaulay Culkin into a movie superstar when he was all of ten years old. Gosh, this is real bad, only watched it because of Lenny Von Dohlen. The choice of songs were bad, acting was bad, plot was bad, script was bad, camera work was bad, trap design was bad, actors looked bad. Nothing good came out of this film, a pure time waster.
The negatives are that some of the violence, that was classic in the first two films, seemed to have been reduced to cartoon slapstick. Another problem was that I didn't recognise any of the characters, and the uneven script didn't allow them to develop properly. Also, I do miss the antics of the Wet Bandits, the new villains weren't as effective. Lol, I watched it when I was a kid and didn't realize that Scarlet Johannson is here not until now.
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Despite these key differences of characters and theme, it still feels like it has enough continuity with the others. 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. They really ought to hire better criminals as they fall for every one of Alex's sadistic booby-traps. When Alex is explaining that the bad guys had Johnny Allen's dog and Allen said his dog was stolen, the police brush it off. Johnny Allen reporting his dog missing and Alex seeing the dog with the bad guys is sufficient enough evidence for Alex's story to have credibility. Stupid, poorly acted, and poorly written, Home Alone 3 has got to be the worst installment in the series.
And I wasn't the biggest fan of Kevin anyway, but this everyone has to admit or rather see. More advanced traps and failings or whatever you want to call them ... Though I reckon the people it hits are the most deserving ones yet. I have not seen part 4 & 5 yet, but do not hold your breath for me to do so soon. This had a very young Black Widow - sorry I mean Scarlett Johannson in it. Watching it, one wishes she would have been the main character instead ...
After Alex shovels Mrs. Hesses' driveway, she gives him the car as payment. The spies have tracked the chip to Alex's neighborhood, and faces off against Alex who is home sick with the chicken pox. The third one - and the first one that tries to make sense of things and bring reality back.
Looks like hollywood really did sold him out during this time. Roger Ebert was wrong about this one saying, "it's better than the first two." To me, it just sounded rediculous. The first two will always be better than this nonsense. Verified reviews are considered more trustworthy by fellow moviegoers.
Sure it was better than the 4th one, but that doesn't say much. It had it's funny moments here and there, so that's why I give it 1 1/2 stars. It makes me feel said how John Hughes would write a movie like this one.
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