Home Alone 2 Review - A Very Merry MMO Holiday Movie Review, Part 3 - Ep 143 - a podcast by MMO

Kevin!

***This Review of Home Alone 2 has a Spoiler Section***
And for the record, we somehow spoil Martin Scorsese’s Casino in the first half. Sorry, but it happened.

Intro / Why We Chose Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - Top of the Show

Non-Spoiler Review of Home Alone 2
Cast & Crew & Future Presidents - 3:26
Production Notes & Dumb Product Placements? - 15:17
Movie Specs About Happy Audiences & Angry Critics - 18:32
Plot / Premise & Our Expectations - 21:35
Oscar Lens = we love the music - 23:58
Final Non-Spoiler Script Thoughts - 25:51

Spoiler Warning Dance Music - 28:35

Carryovers: We Want to Play a Game - 29:34
(Family Martyr - 31:54)
(Bests: Setting it Up - 36:13)
(Bests/Worsts: Bad Adults - 38:45)
(Curry and Hijinks - 42:22)
(Duncan’s Toy Chest - 45:20)
(What a Lovely Room of Death - 47:55)
(Deaths of Bandits - 50:26)
(Epilogue - 56:45)

Outro / Social Media / Upcoming Programming / Words of Wisdom - 59:26


At the onset of the month, we promised a Very Merry MMO Holiday Movie Review per week leading into your Christmas holiday, and here’s that third December review of one of our childhood favorites. Though we didn’t expect to take all 3 trips down memory lane all the way back to our much younger selves, it happened. So when the holiday reality of how busy and crazy you are kind of sucks, watch some of our favorite Christmas movies with us. This has been a fun series to give us a break from awards season, and Home Alone 2: Lost In New York was one of our most fun recording sessions.

We can’t help but review this film as adults, and the results are not what you might expect. Where would Kevin McCallister be now? We answer this question with connections to other movie franchises. Who are the standout performers? How is this a different kind of sequel than what we’ve been reviewing in previous OSPs like Mary Poppins Returns? And is there an actual Oscar Lens for this movie? The answers should surprise you, as they surprised both of us.

The format is similar to our previous Christmas movie reviews as we tend to dive into more of the plot scene for scene in the spoiler section. But we include some of our trademark segments in the non-spoiler section like a rowdy Production Profile, an analysis of the numbers and the business side of this blockbuster, and of course, some analysis of the setups and payoffs in the script.

As we are prone to do, we get the giggles and quote happy as we’re having fun with this review experience. But we also riff about a ton of fun theories on just who these characters are both in this story and how they could come back in a modern day Home Alone installment. Someone should definitely write that movie. Not saying it should be us, but we’re open to collaboration.

If you enjoyed this episode, tune into our other two Very Merry MMO Holiday Movie Reviews of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and The Muppet Christmas Carol. We also went all out for the month of October with multiple horror themed review series like a two part series on both Dario Argento & Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria films, the Conjuring Universe, and of course, the Michael Myers / MMO Does Halloweens where we reviewed that entire franchise. Stay tuned for more MMO Weekly episodes covering the Oscar Race as well as updates on all the big award shows. We’ll finish our 2018 Oscar Sprint Profiles before heading into our full time Oscar coverage with predictions and category overviews after those nominations drop.

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