Home Alone 3 (1997)
3/10
If anyone thought Home Alone 2 was a bad sequel, this was a huge step down from that.
16 February 2022
Home Alone 3 (1997) is a movie my daughter and I recently watched together on Disney+. The storyline follows a stolen top secret microchip that is accidentally lost at an airport and brought to a Chicago home by an unsuspecting carrier. The carrier gifts the chip to a child thinking it is a remote control car. The people who stole the microchip track it to the Chicago neighborhood and find the kid more challenging than expected in their attempts to steal the microchip back.

This movie is directed by Raja Gosnell (Never Been Kissed) and stars Alex D. Linz (red Dragon), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Marian Seldes (The Haunting), Richard Hamilton (Pale Rider), Kevin Kilner (Raising Helen) and Olek Krupa (Hidden Figures).

The storyline for this was kind of blah and not that great. The characters are okay but not as good as the previous two films. It was fun seeing a young Scarlett Johansson in this, but overall the cast isn't memorable.

The parrot wasn't as funny as they hoped but the butt inspection gloves reference and the boobytraps and hijinks at the end were fun, though a bit too over the top. If anyone thought Home Alone 2 was a bad sequel, this was a huge step down from that.

Overall this was a movie made to capitalize off the greatness of the first film. There's nothing memorable or worth seeing here. I would score this a 2.5/10 and recommend skipping it.
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