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Kevin is with them, but he becomes separated from them while carrying Peter's bag and accidentally boards a flight to New York City. Upon arrival, he decides to tour the city, but becomes frightened by a homeless woman tending to pigeons in Central Park. He uses Peter's credit card to check in at the Plaza Hotel, not knowing that the Wet Bandits have also reached the city after escaping from prison. The same boy who was accidentally left Home Alone a year ago, accidentally takes the wrong flight. Instead of arriving in Miami with the rest of his family, he arrives in New York!
Even better, Kevin pauses the movie right after Johnny says his name so the staff can react. Right before the goons are set to invade the trap-infested house that Kevin has set up, Kevin throws several bricks down at the pair, with all of them hitting Marv. After the pair have made it through the gauntlet to the top of the house, with Kevin now on the sidewalk, Marv attempts to get revenge on him by tossing a brick at him.
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If you decide to order some pizza to celebrate your viewing of the quirky holiday classic, though, it's probably not wise to imitate its "Angels with Filthy Souls" gag. For children of the '80s, John Hughes and Christopher Columbus' holiday burglary bonanza Home Alone is a classic. One fateful Christmas Eve, a disillusioned little boy, barely old enough to doubt the existence of Santa Claus, has the adventure of a lifetime aboard a magic train bound for the North Pole.

Marv getting hit on the head with four bricks, for example, was cut down to only one. Shortly after Kevin arrives in New York City, the film presents a montage of his sightseeing adventures that attempts to cram in every interesting location in Manhattan. Kevin is seen taking a picture outside of Radio City Music Hall, which is in Midtown Manhattan, and then at the Empire Diner in Chelsea. Next, he is shopping in Chinatown , and then looking at the Statue of Liberty from Battery Park, which is all the way on the southernmost part of the island, and heading up to the World Trade Center's observation deck. Then, he visits Central Park , and finally arrives at the Plaza Hotel.
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Kevin bolts into the garage with Marv and Harry in hot pursuit. Harry and Marv end up triggering extra traps that Kevin had set up in the garage. Kevin watches as Marv ends up triggering a trap where a running lawnmower falls on his head . On Christmas morning, a truckload of free gifts arrives at the McCallisters' hotel room, sent from a grateful Mr. Duncan for foiling the robbery. Kevin reconciles with his family, and goes to Central Park to give one of his turtledoves to the pigeon lady, cementing their friendship.

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With the house all to himself, Kevin embraces his newfound freedom - until a pair of burglars set their sights on breaking into the McAllisters’ family home. The original movie sees Kevin McAllister’s parents inadvertently leave their youngest son behind when they head off to Paris for Christmas with the rest of their family. You won’t be alone this holiday season with the company of Kevin McCallister and the Wet Bandits. Kevin's family are stuck in a motel room watching a Spanish dub of It's a Wonderful Life, just like in the first film when they were stuck watching the French dub of the same movie. Initially, and at the very end of the film, the Pigeon Lady is shown roaming around the southern end of Central Park , which is close to the Plaza Hotel and Carnegie Hall , where she is shown to live. However, at the climax of the film, when Kevin flees from from his uncle's house on West 95th Street, he runs inside the park and ends up at the Inscope Arch , and the Pigeon Lady happens to be there to save him from Harry and Marv.

Harry and Marv plan to rob a gigantic toy store instead of homes. Along with that, they plan to steal charity money rather than the contents of someone's house. Made worse when Kevin visits the children's hospital where the money is supposed to be donated, and he exchanges waves with a patient in a window. It's mainly a rehash of the original, only this time it's set in New York City, with Kevin McCallister taking the wrong plane instead of being forgotten at home when his big family flies out of Chicago for the Christmas Holidays once again.
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Numerous video games based on Home Alone 2 were released by THQ for such systems as the Sega Genesis, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy and personal computers, mostly in late 1992. Numerous board games were also released, some based around play cards, while another was a close emulation of the classic Mouse Trap. While the film featured the first film's theme song "Somewhere in My Memory", it also contained its own theme entitled "Christmas Star". Two soundtrack albums of the film were released on November 20, 1992, with one featuring Williams' score and the other featuring contemporary Christmas songs featured in the film. Ten years later, a 2-disc Deluxe Edition of the film score soundtrack was released.

Meanwhile, the Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv , have escaped from prison and travelled to the Big Apple with the intent of robbing toy stores during Christmas. After being left home alone as the family jets off for Christmas in France, eight-year-old Kevin McAllister enjoys having the house to himself until two burglars set their sights on the property for their next robbery. Kevin pulls out all the stops in protecting his home from the Wet Bandits, and the creative booby traps entertain with slapstick humor that stands the test of time. Duncan's Toy Chest is a stand-in for the real life F.A.O. Schwarz toy store.
After learning to fend for himself, the boy has to protect his house against two bumbling burglars who are planning to rob it. Earlier, upon landing in Miami, the McCallister family discover that Kevin is missing and file a police report. After the police trace Peter's credit card, the family flies immediately to New York. Meanwhile, Kevin goes to his uncle's townhouse, only to find it vacant and undergoing renovations. In Central Park, Kevin encounters and eventually befriends the pigeon lady, who takes him to Carnegie Hall. She explains how her life collapsed when her lover left her; Kevin encourages her to trust people again.
You can't expect Kevin to keep forgiving his family that quickly if they're still acting like assholes, especially Buzz and Uncle Frank. This time, Harry has a gun and tries to use it on Kevin when they have him cornered in Central Park. He sets them off in Central Park at the end to alert to police as to where Harry and Marv are. "Angels With Even Filthier Souls." Kevin watches it before the concierge shows up at his room, then he uses it to scare off the hotel staff before he flees. The scene where Kevin records his Uncle Frank taking a shower was meant to be a call back to this creepy as fuck deleted scene from the first film.
A mischievous 8-year-old is accidentally left behind in a frenzied rush to the airport for a family holiday in Paris. Pull out your coziest blankets and get your hot chocolate on the stove, because the weather is starting to get cooler and the holiday season is almost here. This means that it is almost time to start watching Home Alone again, the treasured 1990 film starring Macaulay Culkin. Luckily, Home Alone is on TV a lot in 2021, which means that you will be able to spend the holidays with the company of Kevin McCallister and the Wet Bandits.

So, Kevin's left to hack it alone, just as a pair of burglars have settled in on their marquee neighborhood as an easy mark to pillage. At least Kevin always had his warm and safe house in the first movie. As one of the greatest family films of all time, it is perhaps fitting that Home Alone are streaming on Disney Plus this Christmas, along with the reboot, Home Sweet Home Alone, which is also available on the streaming platform. He uses the variable-speed playback on his Talkboy tape recorder to fool the hotel staff into thinking they're talking with Peter so he can reserve a room. The recorder was originally built only as a non-working prop, but enough kids wrote in asking about it that Tiger Electronics eventually started to produce it. In the beginning of the novelization, a prologue, which ends up being Marv's nightmare in prison, he and Harry sneak away from the cops and return to Kevin's house to seek revenge on Kevin.
Harry and Marv catch him after he slips on ice and prepare to kill him, but the pigeon lady throws a bucket of birdseed onto them, attracting a massive flock of pigeons and incapacitating the pair until the police arrive to arrest them. Kevin slips away, leaving photographic and tape-recorded evidence against Harry and Marv, and Mr. Duncan recovers the donation money and finds a note from Kevin explaining why he broke the window. The family arrives in New York, and Kate, remembering Kevin's fondness for Christmas trees, finds him making a wish at the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
Principal photography took place from December 9, 1991 to May 1, 1992, over a course of 144 days; the film was shot in Winnetka, Illinois; O'Hare International Airport in Chicago; Evanston, Illinois; and New York City. According to the director, Chris Columbus, Donald Trump, the owner of the Plaza Hotel at the time, allowed the crew to shoot scenes in the hotel lobby in exchange for a cameo in the film in addition to the standard fee for film productions. In 2021, Culkin endorsed a petition to edit out Trump's cameo, when he replied to a tweet asking to digitally replace Trump with an older rendition of Culkin. The next morning, the family oversleeps and must rush to the airport.