“Home Sweet Home Alone” takes everything audiences loved about the Chris Columbus-directed, John Hughes-penned original and turns it around on them. Holiday sentimentality co-mingling with slapstic…
) are begrudgingly selling their home as they can no longer make their mortgage payments. Tech wiz Jeff has been unemployed for months and Pam’s teacher’s salary is dwindling. The cash-strapped couple is also scrambling to keep the devastating news from their perceptive teen daughter Abby and tween son Chris . But with Christmas fast approaching and the seller’s market booming, the sad reality of losing their home during the joyful season is hitting them hard.
Shifting the primary focus from the kid to the adults is certainly an innovative choice. Yet it’s done no favors in execution, frequently forgetting to be lively, humorous and endearing along the way. Directorand screenwriters Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell bend over backward to needlessly rationalize and continually remind us of the reasons why Jeff and Pam are harassing Max — who, by way of a misunderstanding, thinks the couple are human traffickers out to kidnap him.
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