In another holiday movie, we find a sadly disappointing sequel in the form of “Home Alone 2: Lost In New York”.

After a huge family argument, like the first movie, we once again find Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin “Home Alone”, “Richie Rich”) has been left to his own devices. However, this time in the ‘Big Apple’ New York City. Kevin uses his father’s credit card and various other devious schemes to stay in a fancy hotel and get first class treatment the whole way. Unfortunately, his fun is stopped by the blundering burglars from the first movie (Joe Pesci “Goodfellas”, Daniel Stern “City Slickers”), who coincidentally seem to be in the exact same area as Kevin.

Macaulay Culkin is reasonably good as Kevin. He’s very similar to how he was in the first movie. Although he’s nothing special, he gives a believable performance and seems to work well in the environment and nothing feels forced. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern return as Harry and Marv. Like Culkin they’re very similar to how they were the last time round. They give decent performances and have some decent chemistry. Tim Curry (“Congo”, “Clue”) gives a good performance as the sneaky and curious hotel owner but sadly what he has to work with is extremely poor. There are also various famous faces including Rob Schneider (“Deuce Bigalow”, “Demolition Man”) and Donald Trump (“The Little Rascals”) but none of them are memorable in the slightest.

All-round “Home Alone 2” is a poor sequel that falls into the trap of being too predictable as it follows the same formula as “Home Alone”. Another sad thing is that the traps this time around are really stupid. Tell me when you last saw a kid move a hefty toolbox up a staircase or cut floorboards out. The first one gave us far more believable traps but this one is just too ridiculous and too predictable.