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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.
I like the cat and mouse game, but the premise is way too serious. And the movie doesn't have as much whimsy as the previous two. The bad guys are real bad guys, not the silly Wet Bandits. Crazy to say the least - and the kid as good as the actor himself is, is not as charismatic as Culkin ...
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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.
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.
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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.
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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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.
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.
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.
Alex Pruitt, an 8-year-old boy living in Chicago, must fend off international spies who seek a top-secret computer chip in his toy car.
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 ...
Wish we could bring back times to the gold old days. Home Alone 1-3 hits so hard knowing we're all grown-ups now. You can only understand life until you realize that you're almost 25 and still have no achievements in life. Four high-tech industrial spies are trying to smuggle out a top secret military microchip to North Korea. A mixup at airport security leaves Mrs. Hess with the microchip hidden in a remote control car.
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