The Home Alone Reboot Has A Big Disney Problem To Overcome

The Home Alone Reboot Has A Big Disney Problem To Overcome

Home Sweet Home Alone arrives on Disney+ on November 12, but the new entry in the Home Alone franchise has a bit of an issue with the Disney model.

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The Home Alone Reboot Has A Big Disney Problem To Overcome

Disney’s upcoming Home Alone sequel/reboot Home Sweet Home Alone has a challenge it’ll need to face by virtue of being a property coming to Disney+. The newest entry in the Home Alone franchise will hit Disney+ on November 12, with the trailer showing the film to hit much of the typical Home Alone beats, including a young child, in this case Max Mercer (Archie Yates), being left behind by his family during the holidays. It’ll also involve the Home Alone staple of the young hero fitting his house with home made traps to combat burglars Pam and Jeff Fritzovski (Ellie Kemper and Rob Delany), and this is where the movie’s in a bit a tough position.

The Home Alone movies are actually quite a paradox for holiday season films. While the first two are widely regarded as holiday classics, they’re also genuinely violent movies when they reach their climactic house full of traps. It doesn’t take a E.R. physician to know that nearly all of the traps laid out by Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) would’ve either killed or horrifically maimed Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern). The subsequent non-Kevin-led Home Alone movies also kept the literal home defense trappings of the series, Home Alone 3’s traps in particular also being very sadistic.

The Home Alone movies have managed this by essentially taking on a Looney Tunes tone in the traps. Realistically, traps like Kevin pelting Marv with bricks from several stories up in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and Harry’s unfortunate blowtorch encounters can only be viewed entirely in cartoon terms to explain anyone surviving them. However, this also leaves the Disney Home Alone reboot between a rock and a hard place.

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Disney is notoriously reticent about violent content. Of course, the studio has numerous subsidiary studios where more mature films are made, and things like Thor eventually going for Thanos’ head in Disney’s various Marvel and Star Wars properties are where their rules can be bent a bit more. The Home Alone reboot is a different story, as it’s debuting on Disney+ with its secondary production label being 20th Century Studios, the new title of Home Alone’s alma mater 20th Century Fox by way of Disney’s acquisition of the studio.

That raises a real question mark of just how far the Home Alone reboot is going to be able to push the envelope when it comes to Max’s traps compared to those of Kevin and Alex Pruitt (Alex D. Linz) in Home Alone 3. It’d be hard to imagine a Disney-distributed Home Alone movie not pulling its punches at least a little from Kevin’s Saw-worthy traps of the original movies, but even then, can the film get away with just shrugging off the utter implausibility of anyone surviving such traps by pulling the “It’s a cartoon” card? Far more than establishing its place in the Home Alone franchise pantheon, that may be the biggest challenge of all for Home Sweet Home Alone.

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