Back in 1990, Macaulay Culkin ransacked the box-office with this slapstick kiddie fantasy about an abandoned boy and some bumbling burglars. Sixteen years on he’s a Former Child Star, but the Home Alone bandwagon is still rolling in the royalties. We’ll probably have to wait for the 30th anniversary edition for the Culkin tell-all interview about sleeping in Wacko Jacko’s bed, drug possession charges and how Home Alone sent him on the road to rehab. That definitely won’t be fun for all the family.
DVD Extras:
This Family Fun Edition is supposedly aimed at nippers, with trivia games, a blooper reel and animated menus. But you can’t imagine the little ’uns being captivated by the thorough Making Of or Home Alone Around the World, which replays key scenes with Italian, Japanese and Mandarin dubs (those crazy foreigners, eh?). Disappointingly, How To Burglar-Proof Your Home isn’t a guide to bashing baddies, just a butcher’s at the movie’s bone-splintering stunts.
