Negligent parenting… So nice they did it twice!
Eight-year-old Kevin McAlister ( Macaulay Culkin) gets his wish when his family accidentally leaves him home alone for Christmas. The bright side is that someone is home to protect the house from being robbed. It’s one kid against two lame-brained bandits with Kevin winning through the use of some quick thinking and set of booby traps. In the end, Kevin learns that he’d rather be with his family than without them, and everyone is reunited on Christmas Day.
Two years later, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is released. It’s the same plot as the original. The only major difference is that Kevin takes the wrong flight to New York instead of Florida with the rest of his family. Instead of a scary next-door neighbor, there’s a scary bird lady. The bandits have escaped jail and somehow mange to run into Kevin. (Because they wanted to keep the plot as realistic as possible!) Naturally, they’re out for revenge. Instead of robbing homes, they’ve switched things up and are robbing toy stores! Kevin stops them by employing the same methods as last because why mess with what ain’t broke?! Once again, the bad guys lose to a kid, and the family is reunited on Christmas Day.
Both movies are fun and laugh-out-loud funny even though the writers copy-and-pasted the first script over to a new document come time for the sequel and prayed to God no one would notice! (And then they did it again with a different kid five years later… And again…And again…) Watch all the Home Alone you can stand on Disney Plus!
When Donna (Catherine Tate) mysteriously winds up in the TARDIS, The Doctor (David Tennant) finds himself with more than he barganed for: a loud-mouth, obnoxious bride-to-be, Robot Santas, killer Christmas trees, and the Empress of Racnoss’s plan to destroy the world. And he’s still getting over the loss of Rose Tyler. It’s anything but peace on earth!
This is Doctor Who at its most bonkers. There’s no other show where you can take robot Santas and giant spider monsters hell-bent on world annihilation and have it make some sort of sense by story’s end The chemistry between David Tennant and Catherine Tate is absolute fire! One of the best comedic duos on television. Thankfully, this isn’t the last time we see them together. The Runaway Bride lays the groundwork for stories to come. It’s funny. It’s serious and emotional when it needs to be. It’s insane and fun. I enjoyed this special more the second time around. Donna can be annoying at first, but has grown on me with time. She ends up having one of the best character arcs of the show, but Spoilers! As River Song likes to say!
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