Amazon.com video review:
This somewhat unpleasant 1992 sequel to the blockbuster Home Alone
revisits the first film's gimmick by stranding Macaulay Culkin's
character in New York City while his family ends up somewhere
else. Again, the little guy meets up with colorful people on the
margins of society (including a pigeon woman played by Brenda Fricker)
and again he gets into a prop-heavy battle with Joe Pesci and Daniel
Stern. The latter sequence is even worse than the first film in terms
of violence inflicted on the two villains (director Chris Columbus,
who also made the first film, can't seem to emphasize the slapstick
over the graphic effects of the fight). The best running joke finds a
concierge (Tim Curry) at the swank hotel where Culkin is staying
trying and failing to prove that the boy is on his own. --Tom
Keogh
