Disney’s Home Alone Reboot Is Repeating The Franchise’s Old Mistakes

Disney’s Home Alone Reboot Is Repeating The Franchise’s Old Mistakes

Disney is releasing a reboot movie for Home Alone, but without star Macaulay Culkin, it’s repeating the same mistakes as the franchise’s old sequels.

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Disney’s Home Alone Reboot Is Repeating The Franchise’s Old Mistakes

Disney’s upcoming Home Alone reboot movie will try to repeat the magic of the original while also being stuck repeating the franchise’s old character mistakes. Releasing in November 2021, Disney’s Home Alone reboot will feature a new cast and characters under a similar premise to the original film. In Home Sweet Home Alone, a young boy named Max Mercer is left home alone for the holidays only for a married couple to try to steal a valuable heirloom from his house. Home Alone’s reboot will star Archie Yates, from the cast of Jojo Rabbit, alongside Rob Delaney, Ellie Kemper, and Aisling Bea with cameos from Macaulay Culkin and Devin Ratray reprising their respective roles as Kevin and Buzz McCallister.

Home Alone originally premiered in 1990 as a resounding success, eventually becoming one of the most beloved holiday movies to date. The enthusiasm for the first film spawned a sequel in 1992, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, which took a similar premise for the original with the same cast and characters albeit in a new location. While the first two Home Alone movies continue to appear on annual Christmas watchlists, many forget that the franchise featured three sequels, all of which failed to capture the magic of the originals. Home Alone 3, 4 and 5, all featured new children and families with varying thieves that the young child would outsmart. Repeating the same formula over and over with no success, the Home Alone franchise never amended the key pieces that made the first two so special, and the new reboot is making the same fatal mistake.

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Above everything else, Culkin was the heart and soul of Home Alone’s first two movies. The entire conflict and emotional crux of Home Alone are based on who plays the main child, and nobody could outdo Culkin’s iconic portrayal of Kevin McCallister. Trying to replace Kevin’s persona with another actor would be like if Warner Bros. had brought in another actor to replace Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter – it just doesn’t work. This is part of why Home Alone 3, 4, and 5 all bombed so horribly that most people don’t even remember they happened; they didn’t bring back Culkin nor the beloved villains. Instead of growing with Macaulay Culkin, Home Alone’s franchise simply kept replacing the protagonist with a new kid. Home Alone’s reboot may have been anticipated with more love had Disney recruited Culkin to star in the sequel, not just appear in a cameo.

Culkin, like Radcliffe, has become associated with his popular childhood character which he still can’t escape from in adulthood. If Culkin can’t shake off the image of Kevin McCallister and Home Alone, why does Disney think Home Alone can shake off the image of Culkin? Even if Disney had miraculously brought back Culkin to fully play Kevin in his 40s, Home Sweet Home Alone would still be missing one piece that made the original two so great: Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern’s Wet Bandits. Had Home Alone 2 solely used villains like Tim Curry’s concierge for Kevin to outsmart, it may not have succeeded as well as it did for a sequel. It’s hard to believe the Home Alone reboot will be able to recapture the same chemistry and magic Culkin had with Pesci and Stern.

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The recent slate of reboots that are succeeding nearly as well as the distributors hoped can typically be nailed down to whether they featured a return of the original beloved characters. For example, the Dexter: New Blood reboot has gained unexpected excitement because it gets to amend its original finale errors while bringing back the main character which the whole story surrounds. On the other hand, HBO Max’s Gossip Girl reboot uses the same premise with a new group of characters and has been poorly received compared to the original. Even outside of the previous sequel failures, Disney’s Home Alone reboot is making the same mistake as certain similar efforts by not bringing back the original cast.

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