Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Directed by Chris Columbus
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve.
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They’re all excellent movies and all basically the same movie with a little extra spice here and there to personalise them enough that it doesn’t feel like, for example, Home Alone and Home Alone 2, i.e. the same movie twice.
He gets to know a curmudgeonly oldster (Brenda Fricker, from My Left Foot, as a pigeon-loving bag lady) and melts her heart just in time for the toasty, spirit-of-Christmas finale.
Jumanji: The Next Level joins the ranks of Die Hard 2, Home Alone 2, and The Hangover Part II as a sequel that clones the structure, story beats, jokes and popular moments of the box-office hit that preceded it.