Film

Macaulay Culkin Gave Us An Accurate Look At What A ‘Home Alone’ Reboot Would Look Like

Well this is disturbing...

by Joseph Earp  8 August 2019
Macaulay Culkin from Home Alone

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Since news broke that Disney has plans to reboot a host of ’90s and early-thousands live action classics for their Disney+ streaming service — including the darkly comedic Home Alone — the reaction online has been kinda mixed.

After all, it does seem like we’re reaching the point of total reboot saturation. The Lion King might have broke the billion dollar mark at the box office, but reviews for the film have been decidedly ho-hum, and it’s hardly set the culture on fire. That’s not even to mention the Aladdin reboot — remember that one? — which was roundly mocked online before dropping to a series of uniquely vicious critical notices.

More than that, it’s not actually clear how a Home Alone reboot might work. Bemoaning that a film “would never get made today” is the laziest, most noxious form of criticism around, but in the case of Home Alone, it feels decidedly true.

Disney have only leant further and further into their squeaky clean image over the last decade. Does anyone really believe that the company will mount a reboot that’s as violent as the original? And, without irons being slammed into faces or paint cans being thrown down stairwells, what’s even the point of a Home Alone movie?

Anyway, to that end, the internet have spent the last few days dreaming up how in the hell a violent home invasion comedy played for laughs would even work in 2019.

Now, no longer content to sit back and watch all of his fans get in on the action, Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin himself has decided to weigh in, and offer up his own alternative vision of the franchise.

Extraordinary. If a Disney exec isn’t on the phone to Culkin’s people right now, then the world is broken.