Home Sweet Home Alone

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Home Sweet Home Alone
Home Sweet Home Alone Poster.jpg
Promotional release poster
Directed by Dan Mazer
Screenplay by
Story by
Based on Home Alone
by John Hughes
Produced by
  • Hutch Parker
  • Dan Wilson
Starring
Cinematography Mitchell Amundsen
Edited by
Music by John Debney
Production
companies
Distributed by Disney+
Release date
  • November 12, 2021 (2021-11-12)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Home Sweet Home Alone (also known as Home Alone 6) is a 2021 American Christmas comedy film directed by Dan Mazer, written by Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell, and starring Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney, Archie Yates, Aisling Bea, Kenan Thompson, Pete Holmes, Ally Maki, and Chris Parnell with Devin Ratray reprising his role as Buzz McCallister from the first two films. The sixth film in the Home Alone franchise, Home Sweet Home Alone was produced by 20th Century Studios as an original title for Disney+, the first 20th Century Studios film to be produced for the streaming service. The film was announced after The Walt Disney Company acquired 21st Century Fox and inherited the rights to the Home Alone franchise. [1] Home Sweet Home Alone was released on November 12, 2021, to generally negative reviews from critics.

Contents

Plot

Jeff and Pam McKenzie are trying to sell their house, but have not told their children, Abby and Chris. Jeff has lost his job and Pam's salary is not enough to keep their home. To make matters worse, Jeff's obnoxious and successful brother Hunter, his wife, Mei, and their son Ollie have decided to stay with them for Christmas.

During an open house, Max Mercer and his mother Carol stop by to use the restroom. Max has a brief exchange with Jeff, during which the latter reveals a box of old dolls, including a malformed one with an upside down face. Carol explains to Jeff that dolls with unusual deformities are rare and worth a lot of money. As Max and Carol return home, the whole family is preparing to leave for Tokyo, Japan, for the holidays, with Carol leaving earlier than the rest. Max, annoyed with the fuss, settles in the garage-parked car to watch cartoons and accidentally falls asleep. Unfortunately, Max's family do not realize that their son was sleeping in the car parked in the garage and left him at home, thinking he was in another vehicle with one of the rest of the members.

Concerned about losing their home, Jeff goes to get the doll only to find it is missing. Believing that Max stole it, he locates the Mercer household the next day only to find the whole family hastily leaving. During the commotion, he overhears the security code and sees where the house key is hidden. Telling Pam about it, they agree to get the doll back at night.

Meanwhile, Max discovers the whole family has left and initially has fun, though he quickly grows bored and misses them. Meanwhile, Jeff and Pam arrive at the Mercer's and get inside. Overhearing them talk about getting an "ugly little boy", Max assumes they are talking about kidnapping and selling him. He attempts to scare them away by calling the police. Officer Buzz McCallister arrives, but Pam diverts him. Max fears if Officer McCallister realizes he is home alone, his parents may get arrested.

Carol discovers Max was left behind and buys a ticket to head back. The McKenzies go to church the next day and run into their realtor. He tells them there is a buyer, but they must decide by the end of the year, which puts extensive pressure on them. Max arrives and unknowingly converses with Jeff and Pam's son Chris who sympathetically gives him his water gun. The couple spot Max talking with someone and assume she is his grandmother. They resolve to break into the house once again while their family is still at church.

Sneaking around the back of the house, Jeff and Pam end up in the neighbor's backyard instead. Max overhears them once again, with Jeff agreeing to arrive dressed as Santa in an effort to fool him. Max responds by booby-trapping the house to cause difficulty and prevent them from getting close to himself while Jeff and Pam wait for their family to fall asleep on Christmas Eve. The couple fall into Max's traps, during which they discover that Max did not steal the doll, but instead a can of soda. They clear up the misunderstanding, but learn Max is home alone and agree to let him stay with them until his mother returns.

As they explain the whole situation to their family, it turns out that Ollie stole the doll and managed to safely retrieve it, thus ensuring that the McKenzies can stay. Carol arrives to pick up Max. Having moved into their house only two months ago, Carol finds friends in the McKenzies and thanks them for taking care of Max.

One year later, the Mercers and McKenzies have Christmas dinner together. Jeff has gotten a new job and willingly gives Max the soda he craved the year prior.

Cast

Production

On August 6, 2019, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that a new film in the Home Alone franchise, titled simply Home Alone, was in development. [2] [3] By October, Dan Mazer had entered negotiations to direct the film, with a script co-written by Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell. Hutch Parker and Dan Wilson served as producers. [4] [5]

In December 2019, Archie Yates, Rob Delaney, and Ellie Kemper were announced as the co-stars of the film. [6] [7] In July 2020, it was reported that Ally Maki, Kenan Thompson, Chris Parnell, Aisling Bea, Pete Holmes, Timothy Simons, and Mikey Day had joined the cast. [8] In April 2020, it was reported that Macaulay Culkin, who played Kevin McCallister in the first two films, would reprise his role in a cameo; [9] [10] In October 2021, Culkin denied his involvement in the film. [11] In August 2021, it was announced that Devin Ratray, who played Buzz McCallister in the first two films, would appear. [12]

Principal photography began in February 2020, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. [13] In March, filming was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic and industry restrictions worldwide. [8] [14] [15] In November 2020, Disney announced that all its films that had been postponed by the coronavirus had resumed filming, and in some cases completed principal photography. [16] The film was released digitally on Disney+ on November 12, 2021. [12]

Music

The score of the film was composed and conducted by John Debney, which incorporates John Williams' themes from the first two films. Two tracks in the score, "He's Hurting Me", and "Who Raised This Monster?", included a reference to Alan Silvestri's theme from the film, Mouse Hunt .

Marketing

The first trailer was released on October 12, 2021. It was met with negative responses by fans, and received more than 79,000 dislikes on YouTube in the first three days of release. [17]

Aisling Bea, who is Irish, received criticism for using an English accent in the film. She said in an interview that "people were trying to connect it to some form of oppression, because it was American people getting me to do an English accent". She said she had used many accents in her career and dismissed the criticism as "sort of what Twitter was created for: people to complain about things that don't matter". [18]

Release

Home Sweet Home Alone premiered on November 12, 2021 on Disney+. [19]

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 15% of 69 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 3.70/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Nobody's Home." [20] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 35 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". [21]

Benjamin Lee of The Guardian gave the film 3 out of 5 stars and wrote: "Home Sweet Home Alone is a surprisingly entertaining, if wholly unnecessary, sequel, a tangerine where we expected to find a lump of coal." [22] Jennifer Green of Common Sense Media also gave it 3 out of 5 stars and wrote: "By this point, after no fewer than five previous features in the franchise, Home Sweet Home Alone might not have much new to offer. But the characters here have a wholesomeness to them that was missing in some of the earlier films." [23] Aditya Mani Jha of Firstpost rated the film 3 out of 5 stars and wrote: "Overall, Home Sweet Home Alone is a competently mounted but unambitious film. At times, it plays like a showreel from its source material, and the makers are okay with it being that way. This makes it efficient in the blockbuster sense, but even its keenest backers will find it difficult to remember too many of the film’s all-new scenarios or one-liners after the end credits roll." [24] Adam Graham of The Detroit News gave it a grade of B− and wrote: "Home Sweet Home Alone holds its own, a new spin on an old tale that keeps the spirit of the original alive." [25]

CNN's Brian Lowry wrote that the film "is a very odd duck -- a movie that basically replicates the three-decades-old "Home Alone" template, but in a way that feels slightly weird and ill-conceived." [26] Tim Robey of The Daily Telegraph gave the film 2 out of 5 stars, writing: "Don't expect a Christmas miracle, then: it's more like a box of Quality Street that got heavily plundered before the wrapping went on." [27] Clarisse Loughrey of The Independent gave the film 1 out of 5 stars, writing: "Home Sweet Home Alone decides, somewhat arbitrarily, to switch everything up – the kid is now an utter arsehole while the burglars are sympathetic, which results in the audience rooting for criminals while really just hoping that everyone would quit it and go to sleep." [28] Kevin Maher of The Times also gave the film 1 out of 5 stars, writing that "everything that happens before the mayhem — the burglary begins after a full hour of padding — is excruciatingly forced." [29] Jake Wilson of The Age also gave 1 out of 5 stars, writing: "This is less an actual movie than a lazy approximation, half-heartedly monkeying with formula while showing no understanding of why that formula ever worked at all." [30]

Chris Columbus, the original director of the first two Home Alone films was also critical of the decision to make a sixth movie, prior to the release of the film. [31] On the topic of movie remakes, he said, "In this version of Hollywood that we live in, everybody is remaking everything, and rebooting everything. I mean, there's a Home Alone reboot coming out... What's the point? The movie exists, let's just live with the movie that existed. There's no point in any of us remaking The Wizard of Oz, there's no point in any of us remaking the classic films. Make something original, because we need more original material." [32] [33]

Accolades

Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell were among the screenwriters honored during the Mill Valley Film Festival for their contribution to the film. [34] [35]

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