Things don't get much better when it comes to the actual storyline because Kevin's parents have split up and Peter is living with Natalie in her swanky, fully automated and fully loaded mansion. Although the scenes which intentionally having him copying what Culkin did, such as singing in the shower and watching old movies do not work at all. In a way you sort of feel sorry for Mike Weinberg who plays Kevin because he could never do what Macauley Culkin did and so ends up feeling not even a poor copy despite actually doing a nice job of playing a little kid. Throw in also the return of Marv but with French Stewart taking on the role when Daniel Stern turned down the movie and it all feels very wrong. It also doesn't help when you also have age issues because we have Buzz McCallister who in "Home Alone 2" was an older teenager yet here he seems to have got younger. In many ways "Home Alone 4" is just a list of mistakes starting with the fact that we have the McCallister's back but different actors playing the roles and sadly none of them are as good as the originals. That is until he spots Marv ( French Stewart - Broken Arrow) and new partner Vera ( Missi Pyle - Just My Luck) lurking by the gates and realises that once again he is going to have to stop Marv from what ever nefarious plan he is up to. So knowing that his dad Peter (Jason Beghe) and his new girlfriend Natalie (Joanna Going) would be happy for him to stay at Natalie's swanky mansion he decides to make his own way their and all is well as Natalie spoils him rotten and he has no one to bully him. ![]() With his parents divorcing Kevin McCallister (Mike Weinberg) is finding the first Christmas without his dad tough especially with Buzz (Gideon Jacobs) making life miserable for him. It simply doesn't work and the most entertaining thing about "Home Alone 4" ends up a gadget filled house. But even when you understand why they made "Home Alone 4" it doesn't disguise how desperate it is, characters from the first two movies including Kevin McCallister return but we have all new actors and a storyline which whilst trying to be slightly different also desperately tries to imitate those first two movies. What they were thinking, or at least hoping, was that if this made for TV movie was popular it would be a springboard for a "Home Alone" TV series, it wasn't popular and we didn't get the series. When it comes to the " Home Alone" movies the first two were good, the third was bad and the fourth well it comes into the category of what were they thinking.
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