Home Alone 3 (Widescreen Edition) [DVD]

Third part in a series of our favorite Christmas trilogy! We watch it every year along with parts 1 and 2.

Love this movie and watching it around the holidays

This movie is great!

I have to agree with Roger Ebert in saying I liked "Home Alone 3" a little better than the originals. I think what sells this movie for me is Alex D. Linz is more likable than Macaulay Culkin. He seems more like a real 8-year-old. Besides, Culkin would have been 15 or 16 at the time this was filmed, so he was well past the age a kid couldn't be left "home alone." His younger brother, Kieran, who played Fuller in the first films, was also too old. The plot and the villains of HA3 seem more realistic too, at least in the fantasy, slapstick world they live in. HA3 gets bogged down with too many villains, though. Two is enough, possibly 3 but not 4. The standout villain is Alice Ribbons, playing Rya Kihlstedt (why such complicated character names?) HA3 lacks the sentimental, holiday "message" as well as the sophisticated score John Williams delivered in the originals, but this is really a movie made to appeal to pre-high schoolers. I think their mistake was marketing this as a sequel with none of the original cast. My vote would have gone to bringing back Catherine O'Hara in the role of the neighbor lady Mrs. Hess. At the end of the day, all 3 films are enjoyable, escapist fun. The cartoon violence may be too extreme for younger kids.

It was OK

Fun to watch

Silly me ... I didn't read the description. The item's picture showed a 2-movie set, but it was only Home Alone 3.

Of course each Home Alone has a place in your heart,but this is my favorite!The kid is adorable,the humor is a little corny but I enjoy that,AND there's some legit creepy moments when you realize the severity of these professional killers trying to get into the house, with NOBODY believing the kid even after he calls the police twice!Everyone in my family chimed out "You LIKE that one?!", lolA computerchip is being smuggled out of the country by a quartet of criminals, it's hidden in a toy car that eventually goes to the main hero whom is home sick with the chicken pox.The criminals have to enter each house looking for the toy car, with an interesting point made;"This is the suburbs, nobody's home during the day."Even after Alex spots them from his telescope, calls the police, TWICE, nobody believes him.Once they figure out who called the police on them, they prepare to hit his house next...But his house hits back!