Home Alone

This is going to be a big hit with the kids. Word will get out in the schoolyard that Home Alone is really funny. Just don’t let the kids near the iron after they’ve seen it.

Home Alone isn't high art, but it's a swell gift to movie-going families.

Using split-second editing, playfully choreographed violence and exaggerated responses such as the bug-eyed double take, director Chris Columbus has created a live action comedy in the style of a Warner Bros cartoon.

Home Alone works -- it's funny, stupid, affably sentimental, and on occasion, even inspired.

You may not buy the contrived plot, but this giddy, warm-hearted comedy will have both children and grownups giggling in the aisles.

The movie is quite enjoyable as long as it explores the fantasy of a neglected little boy having an entire house of his own to explore and play in, and it still manages to be fun when he exhibits superhuman ingenuity and resourcefulness.

This film truly captures something enduring about what it's like to be a kid, and it continues to speak to that child in all of us.

Without being the least bit schmaltzy or cloying, Home Alone manages to impart the holiday spirit. Its saving grace is an unexpected vein of irreverent humor that verges on the black.

Home Alone will send most moviegoers home with the warm glow of a story well told.

Hughes wrote and produced Home Alone, leaving hapless Chris Columbus to direct this boorish, ham-fisted, sloppy screen comedy.