I have a feeling that \"Home Alone 2: Lost in New York\" is going to be an enormous box office succe, but include me out.I didn\'t much like the first film, and I don\'t much like this one, with its sadistic little hero who mercilely hammers a couple of slow-learning crooks.Nor did I enjoy the shamele attempt to leaven the mayhem by including a preachy subplot about the Pigeon Lady of Central Park.Call me hardhearted, call me cynical, but please don\'t call me if they make \"Home Alone 3.\" I know, I knowthat\'s going too far!\") The kid outsmarts the usual aortment of supercilious adults, including hotel clerk Tim Curry, before setting a
series of ingenious traps for the crooks.As before, he seems to have a complete command of all handyman skills, including rigging ladders and wiring appliances for electrical shocks - and, of course, he finds all the props he needs, even for rigging the exploding toilet and setting that staple gun to fire through the keyhole.
In between the painful practical jokes, there\'s his treacly relationship with Fricker, as the Pigeon Lady, who shows him her hideaway inside the ceiling of Carnegie Hall.Christmas carols swell from the concert below as the sanctimonious little twerp lectures the old lady on the meaning of life.If he believes half of what he says, he\'d give the crooks a break.Is this a children\'s movie? I confe I do not know.Millions of kids will go to see it.There used to be movies where it was bad for little kids to hurt grown-ups.Now Kevin bounces bricks off their skulls from the rooftops, and everybody laughs.The question isn\'t whether the movie will scare the children in the audience.It\'s whether the adults will be able to peek between their fingers.
