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In 2021, Culkin endorsed a petition to edit out Trump's cameo, when he replied to a tweet asking to digitally replace Trump with an older rendition of Culkin. Curry himself is, of course, magnificent as the centerpiece of the scene, a man who boasts about freaking Kevin out even as the boy’s parents literally reach across the desk to slap his face. Released 30 years ago this month—after Home Alone became a runaway box office hit over the winter of 1990 and 1991—Home Alone 2 is a classic example of scaled-up sequelizing. It retains much of the same formula as the original film and revisits many of the same characters, but with an added grand-scale pop from a bigger budget and a change of scenery.
For at least the last 12 years the phones I’ve carried around in my pocket every day have been able to do everything that a Talkboy Tape Recorder could do. HOWEVER, all that’s beside the point because I have never yearned for my phone with the same passion that I yearned for a Talkboy Tape Recorder in 1992 after seeing Kevin use it continuously in this movie. Twenty-five years later, the comedian, who played a smarmy bellhop, recalls the film with fondness.
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Kevin, not fully comprehending the concept of tipping because he’s 10 (and because he wasn’t raised right) finally hands him a piece of Fruit Stripe gum. Probably no piece of Home Alone 2 trivia has been discussed more than this. When I saw this in theater as a kid in 1992 I didn’t register or laugh at the cameo at all as I had no idea who this dude was. I wish things had stayed that way, but just like Macaulay Culkin in 1993’s The Good Son we all have to lose our innocence at some point. If I successfully retrieved the recorder I was SO ready to run to Manhattan to see if I could score a room at the Park Plaza on Peter McCallister’s credit card. There’s a Park Plaza in Rockaway, NJ….It’s not quite as elegant, but still.
Additionally, it achieved the highest opening weekend for a Chris Columbus film and would hold that record until it was surpassed by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 2001. It started off better than Home Alone, grossing $100 million in 24 days compared to 33 days for the original. 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.
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Marv certainly isn't the smartest out of the two robbers, and this Home Alone 2 quote really shows that. Harry is trying to express that nobody would catch them because nobody would believe anybody would rob a toy store on Christmas Eve. Marv, however, doesn't understand the expression and claims they are both dumb enough to do the deed. Let’s see, the two men who had the most motive in the world to murder the McCallisters’ youngest suddenly escape from prison.
There, Schneider became known for characters like annoying office worker Richard “The Richmeister” Laymer and unabashed nudist The Sensitive Naked Man. Alongside SNL contemporaries that included Adam Sandler and David Spade, Schneider was nominated for a total of three Emmy Awards during his SNL tenure. Lost in New York, by necessity, has to change much of this dynamic, at least in the film’s first and second acts. It begins with the familiar, then once again catapults young Kevin into the unfamiliar, which means he can no longer be surrounded by the same Chicago suburb, the same local market, the same church where a kindly old neighbor befriends him.
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While the original “Home Alone” introduced the world to the precocious and inventive Kevin McCallister, it wasn’t until filming the mega hit’s sequel that comedian Rob Schneider got to meet Kevin’s real-life counterpart, Macaulay Culkin. He worked in the Plaza Hotel as a bellhop, and he cared about gaining tips. He was also very knowledgeable about who stayed in the hotel over the years, as shown when he told Kevin that Herbert Hoover once stayed on the fourth floor. Kevin assumed he was talking about "the vacuum guy", but Cedric actually referring to the President of the United States. Cedric was searching through Kevin's bag to look for Peter's wallet while Kevin was checking the refrigerator. Kevin almost caught him by saying "Hey!" Cedric stopped by smoothly asking him if he wants to put the key in the bag or if he just wants to hold on to the key so Kevin grabbed the key and the bag.
Home Alone 2 opened with $31.1 million from 2,222 theaters, averaging $14,008 per site. It broke the short-lived record set one week earlier by Bram Stoker's Dracula for having the largest November opening weekend. The film went on to hold this record until 1994 when it was taken by Interview with the Vampire.
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This funny reaction shows some childhood innocence and that while Kevin is very clever, American history isn't his area of expertise. This line is an extension of the classic "Merry Christmas ya filthy animal" from the previous movie, adding a little extra Happy New Year part in keeping with the film's goal of making everything from Home Alone even bigger. Kevin's dad is the only person who recognizes the severity of the situation.
Kevin's father makes this humorous remark at the police station after they finally realize that Kevin is missing. But if you read the book (as I have…for some reason) you see realize that a hella unnecessary scene was written but never shot. Once booked into the Park Plaza Kevin makes his way to the pool where he sticks out like a sore thumb as an unaccompanied minor. 🎄 There are exactly six black people with speaking roles in this film. Yes, this is a big budget Hollywood movie of pure fiction that needs to be at least 90 minutes long so simply by the act of watching it we’re agreeing to suspend our disbelief to a certain degree.
After Kevin makes a donation, Mr. Duncan gives him a pair of ceramic turtledoves in thanks, instructing him to give one to another person as a gesture of eternal friendship. The concierge at the Plaza confronts Kevin about his use of Peter's credit card, now reported as stolen; Kevin flees the hotel but is caught by the Wet Bandits. Marv mentions his and Harry's plan to rob the store before Kevin escapes in an encounter with a passerby. In 2017, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the film, The Plaza created a Home Alone 2 package so that guests could “live like Kevin.” What does that mean? A four-hour sightseeing tour of the city in a limo with a cheese pizza, a next-level room-service ice cream sundae, a special Home Alone 2 backpack and T-shirt, and a copy of the DVD. (Yes, DVDs still exist.) It was supposed to be a limited special, but the package proved so popular that the hotel decided to keep it indefinitely.
In order to watch the full version on television, the time slot is extended to two and a half hours. In the beginning of the novelization, a prologue, which ends up being Marv's nightmare in prison, he and Harry sneak away from the cops and return to Kevin's house to seek revenge on Kevin. Harry and Marv end up triggering extra traps that Kevin had set up in the garage. Kevin watches as Marv ends up triggering a trap where a running lawnmower falls on his head . 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.
He is a fan of Marvel, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and anything Disney. This Home Alone 2 quote really sums up how comically absurd the franchise is with its traps and high jinks. Kevin even manages to outsmart an entire hotel staff, causing them to make fools of themselves. A funny exchange with a hotel worker shows that Kevin confuses alcohol rules with sugar and ice cream.
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