REVIEW OF HOME ALONE 2 (LOST IN NEW YORK)

Home Alone adalah sebuah film komedi yang dirilis pada

tahun 1990. Home Alone disutradarai oleh Chris Columbus, sedangkan

naskahnya ditulis oleh John Hughes. Film Home Alone sudah memiliki

3 sekuel, yaitu Home Alone 2, Home Alone 3, dan Home Alone 4.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, dikenal juga sebagai Home

Alone 2, adalah sebuah film komedi yang dirilis pada tahun 1992. Film ini

merupakan sekuel dari film tahun 1990,Home Alone. Film ini juga masih

dibintangi Macaulay Culkin sebagai Kevin McCallister. The film became the

second most successful film of 1992, earning over $173 million in revenue

in the United States and over $358 million worldwide.

Does it really matter that Home Alone 2: Lost In New York is, in

essence, the same movie as its megasmash predecessor? A product of the

John Hughes youth-comedy factory, Home Alone had a plot so basic it was

almost primal: Kid gets left behind by family in womblike suburban

fortress; fortress is besieged by cartoon meanies; kid defeats meanies

with a series of tricks so violent, painful, and all-around dastardly that

they're...great fun. Now that's family entertainment!

Parents need to know that they can expect the same kind of slapstick

violence in this secondHome Alone movie, mostly against the robbers who

picked on the wrong precocious kid once again. The main character

throws bricks, sets deadly traps, and more in attempts to stop the

bumbling duo and is gleefully proud of himself every time they get hurt.

Parents should also know that the movie opens with quite a bit of family

conflict and that there's fighting -- even some physical violence -- among

siblings.

Home Alone 2 Lost in New York begin with the McCallister family

prepares to spend Christmas in Miami, Florida. Ten-year-old Kevin, Peter

and Kate's youngest son, sees Florida as contradictory to Christmas

because of the lack of Christmas trees. During the school Christmas

concert, Kevin's older brother Buzz humiliates him during his solo, causing

Kevin to retaliate. Kevin refuses to apologize for his actions and, still angry

with the family's decision to go to Florida, he storms up to the third floor

bedroom of the house. During the night, Peter unknowingly resets the

alarm clock and causes the family to oversleep. Meanwhile, a piece of

newspaper is blown into the house's main door, revealing that the Wet

Bandits (now the Sticky Bandits), Harry and Marv, have escaped from

detainment. In the confusion and rush to reach the airport on time, Kevin

gets onto a flight to New York City, carrying Peter's bag containing his

wallet and a large amount of money; the family does not realize it until

after they land in Florida. In New York, Kevin tours the city and tricks the

staff at the Plaza Hotel into giving him a room with Peter's credit card.

During a visit to Central Park, Kevin is scared by the appearance of a

woman tending to pigeons.

On Christmas Eve, Kevin tours the city in a limousine and visits a toy

store where he meets its philanthropic owner, Mr. Duncan. Kevin learns

that the proceeds from Christmas sales will be donated to a children's

hospital. Duncan gives Kevin a pair of ceramic turtledoves as a gift,

instructing him to give one to another person as a sign of eternal

friendship. After encountering the Wet Bandits, Kevin is chased to the

hotel. Mr. Hector, the hotel concierge, confronts Kevin about the credit

card which has been reported stolen. Kevin flees, but is captured by the

Wet Bandits. They discuss plans for robbing the toy store that night,

before Kevin manages to escape.

The McCallisters travel to New York after locating the stolen credit

card and Kate searches the city for Kevin. Meanwhile, Kevin goes to his

Uncle Rob's townhouse. After arriving he finds the house vacant and

undergoing renovations and that his uncle and his family are in Paris. In

Central Park, he comes across the pigeon lady. When Kevin gets his foot

caught while running away, she frees him. The pair observe a local

orchestra performance together and Kevin learns how her life has fallen

apart and how she dealt with it by taking care of the pigeons in the park.

Kevin vows to the pigeon lady that he will be her friend.

Kevin later returns to the townhouse and rigs it with various booby

traps. Kevin arrives at the toy store during Harry and Marv's break in,

throws a brick through the window to set off the store's alarm, and leads

the pair to the townhouse. After the two spring numerous traps, Kevin

calls the police. The Wet Bandits catch Kevin and take him to Central Park.

The pigeon lady incapacitates the bandits with her pigeons and Kevin sets

off fireworks he had bought earlier to signal the police. Harry and Marv are

arrested, while at the toy store, Mr. Duncan finds a note from Kevin

attached to the brick explaining what had happened.

Meanwhile, Kate remembers Kevin's fondness for Christmas trees.

Kevin makes a wish at the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. Kate finds

him there and the two reconcile. On Christmas morning, a truckload of

gifts arrive at the McCallister's hotel room from the toy store. Kevin and

Buzz make peace and Buzz allows him to open up the first present. Kevin

goes to Central Park to give the pigeon lady the second turtledove. At the

hotel, Buzz receives the bill for Kevin's stay. Kevin hears Peter call out

"Kevin, you spent $967 on room service", at which point he runs off.

The early family scenes in Home Alone 2 are some of the movie's

funniest moments, as are Kevin's clever survival schemes at the hotel and

on the streets of New York. As a sequel, the movie manages to be funny, if

predictable, and occasionally borders on heart-warming -- in an odd yet

touching moment, Kevin be friends a homeless woman and encourages

her to reach out to people more.

Ini film yang sangat menarik meskipun jalan ceritanya memiliki

kesamaan dengan sequel film yang sebelumnya dan banyak memperoleh

kritik. Families can talk about good ways to work out family conflicts. How

does Kevin defend himself from his older brother's bullying? Was he right

to do that? Parents can also talk about safety issues, such as what might

happen if a kid were accidentally separated from his parents and forced to

go it alone in a strange city. What would be the safest way to respond to a

mix-up like the one portrayed here? Parents can also talk about the

relationship between Kevin and his parents.