After the McCallisters found Kevin again in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, a third installment was released five years later. However, there was no Macaulay Culkin or even the McCallister family in general. Instead, a new character, eight-year-old Alex, was the boy to defend his home from criminals. It’s been 26 years since Home Alone 3 came out, and audiences are still arguing about it.
Originally, Home Alone 3 would’ve had Macaulay Culkin reprise his role as a teenage Kevin. But in 1994, the former child star took a break from acting. This resulted in a new plot involving a boy with chicken pox defending his home from international criminals pursuing a microchip that’s accidentally in his possession. As we enter the holiday season, Bustle reported about X users debating the praiseworthiness of this third installment. One fan declared their love of the third movie.
“Y’all are going to put some respect on Home Alone 3. This was quality content!”
Home Alone 3 brought heightened entertainment with Alex’s more extreme and humorous traps compared to the first two films. Examples include getting hit in the groin by a spring-loaded boxing glove, landing in a frozen swimming pool, electrocution, falling three stories down a dumbwaiter, and more. Another fan has their own theory of why people hate the John Hughes-written film.
“The real reason y’all don’t like Home Alone 3 is because it’s not Kevin.”
Fans of the previous two Home Alone movies may not have enjoyed this one without the original cast of characters. But, there are plenty who enjoy the film for what it is.
Fans Who Found Fault with Home Alone 3
On the other hand, not everyone was happy with the third Home Alone movie. Some would even go as far as to call it the worst Home Alone sequel, such as this one X user.
“Home Alone 3 is a terrible movie. As far as I know, there are only two Home Alone movies.”
Considering comedy greats like Macaulay Culkin, Catherine O’Hara, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern were in the previous Chris Columbus movies, some may prefer grouping the first two films without including the others. Another user referred to the holiday film as “unhinged revisionist insanity” and that calling the movie “secretly underrated” wouldn’t fit the box office flopped movie.
As movies are subjective, we can’t say as a fact what a good or bad movie is. If there are people who still watch and praise Home Alone 3, who are we to argue? You can watch and stream the threequel on your Disney+ subscription.
