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Not only does she write for ScreenRant, The Gamer, Comic Book Resources, and GameRant but she runs her own personal blog, discussing many things pop culture-related. That's okay because seeing Marv and Harry get slammed into a wall by the box and door. A little Looney Tunes in nature, but Home Alone has never aimed for realism, so it still works. And to answer Harry's question, "That was the sound of a tool chest, falling down the stairs." Harry and Marv are known for their funny quotes and this is just one of many across both movies. It's actually even funnier than the scene in the first movie; this is mostly due to making Tim Curry yell "I love you" to a person who isn't there. Seeing the concierge and other staff dive for their life from fake gun sounds and then crawl away military style is too funny.
Marv getting hit on the head with four bricks, for example, was cut down to only one. "You can mess with a lot of things, but you can't mess with kids on Christmas." One of the aspects that makes Home Alone 2's traps so effective is Harry and Marv's memory of the first movie. Harry in particular is constantly testing for traps, but then he gets cocky in the bathroom.
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The front door is also closed before the paint can scene when Harry goes to the bathroom to turn on the light. The flight attendant on Kevin's flight as well as the announcer at O'Hare Airport announce Kevin's flight as simply going to "New York" with no specifics of which airport it is. Since New York has two airports, LaGuardia and JFK , a professional airline employee would make sure to announce the correct airport especially in a multi-airport metro area like New York.
And I'd have the most fun of my whole life. This is also mentioned by Peter and the concierge; even if Kate has her wits and money at hand, it's unlikely she'll find Kevin just by wandering around on one of the coldest nights in New York. Kate retorts that she has to try because she's Kevin's mother, and no one else would look out for him. She does at least have the sense to go to Uncle Rob's place first to see if Kevin went there and leaves when she realizes the area is vacant. In the first movie, while Kevin was left home alone, his family at least knew exactly where he was. Here, Kevin actually gets to the airport with his family.
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Kevin arrives at Duncan's Toy Chest as Marv and Harry perform reconnaissance there. While making his purchase, he meets the philanthropist owner, E.F. Duncan, who tells him the proceeds from the store's Christmas sales will go to a local children's hospital.
Kate laughs but the head of security answers with a disapproving stare. Early on, he notes that Uncle Rob lives in New York and decides to drop in, but the house is empty because it’s undergoing renovation. It’s where Kevin sets his traps later.
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However, at the climax of the film, when Kevin flees from from his uncle's house on West 95th Street, he runs inside the park and ends up at the Inscope Arch , and the Pigeon Lady happens to be there to save him from Harry and Marv. After they are subdued, Kevin seemingly walks from West 95th Street down to the Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center, a distance of almost 3 miles. The best example of how comedic timing goes a long way.
If they're back from Paris, I'll drop in on them. They usually give pretty good presents. Don't flash these babies around here! There could be girls on this floor!
Still, Harry, Marv, and other victims continued to nail the slapstick comedy and make viewers hold their sides in laughter. Philip grew up in Louisiana before moving to St. Louis after graduating from Louisiana State University-Shreveport. When he's not writing about movies or television, Philip can be found being chased by his three kids, telling his dogs to stop yelling at the mailman, or yelling about professional wrestling to his wife. If the stars properly align, he will talk about For Love Of The Game being the best baseball movie of all time. Millions of kids will go to see it. There used to be movies where it was bad for little kids to hurt grown-ups.
Macaulay Culkin was paid $4.5 million to star in this movie, the biggest paycheck ever to an 11-year-old kid. The scene where the McCallisters are at Miami International Airport was actually shot at Los Angeles International Airport. This is the first Home Alone movie where the child is not at his actual house, before Home Alone 4. Home Alone and this film both featured scenes from How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Find a nice, fake silver one.
Set one year after the first film, The McCallister family is preparing to spend Christmas in Miami, and gathers at Peter and Kate's Chicago home. Their youngest son, Kevin, views Florida as contradictory to Christmas, due to its tropical climate and lack of Christmas trees. Chekhov's Gun The inflatable Bozo the Clown. It’s given to Kevin at the start of the film as a gift from his grandmother, then he uses it in the hotel to fool the concierge that there’s someone in the shower.
Gets three staples shot in his butt cheek, groin, and nose from a staple gun on the other side of the front door. Falls three stories when Kevin ignites the rope that he was climbing down on and gets covered head to toe with varnish . Gets crushed by Harry when he falls off the stairs. Gets hit in the face with a paint can while going up the stairs and is knocked off them . Gets hit in the face with an iron that falls down the laundry chute after pulling a light switch attached to the iron. It leaves a massive iron-shaped mark on his face.
Before it falls, all the wheels including the fixed wheels are facing forward. The bag of stolen money changes moves between shots when Marv is getting hit by the bricks. In a long shot of the house the morning the family leaves, there is no bronze statue near the front doorsteps.
I do hope your father understands that last night... He said he didn't come here to have his naked rear spied on. I would’ve liked to have offered my personal apology. If a guy saw you in the shower, would you want to see him?
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As in the novelization of the first film, the McCallisters live in Oak Park, Illinois and the crooks are named as Harry Lime and Marv Murchins. The novel also takes place one year after the events of the first film, but the ages of Kevin and his siblings are given as being two years older than the first film. In February 1991, the Los Angeles Times reported that John Hughes was to sign a six-picture deal with 20th Century Fox; among the projects was a sequel to Home Alone. In May 1991, Culkin was paid $4.5 million plus 5 percent of the film's gross to appear in the sequel, compared to $110,000 for the original. The production budget was $28 million. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from

However the final box office gross was lower with $173.6 million in the United States and Canada and a worldwide total of $359 million, compared to $476 million for the first film. The film was released in the United Kingdom on December 11, 1992, and topped the country's box office that weekend. The film is the third-highest-grossing film released in 1992 behind The Bodyguard and Aladdin. In the United States and Canada, it grossed more than The Bodyguard and ranked second. On Christmas morning, a truckload of free gifts arrives at the McCallisters' hotel room, sent from a grateful Mr. Duncan for foiling the robbery. Kevin reconciles with his family, and goes to Central Park to give one of his turtledoves to the pigeon lady, cementing their friendship.