Festive Film 'Home Alone' Is Hilariously Getting Mocked On Twitter For Its Ridiculous Plot Holes
It's the holiday season and of course that means watching lots of festive movies. One of those will no doubt be the 1990 comedy scripted by John Hughes and starring Macaulay Culkin, Home Alone. Now, depending on when you last watched it (or how many times you have watched it) might well depend on how you view it.
Some people think it's a festive classic with Looney Tunes style slapstick, while others see Culkin's character Kevin McCallister as a dangerous sociopath and the movie's plot being far too ridiculous to allow for any suspension of disbelief. After all, why didn't he just call the police and get them to deal with the burglars?
A big part of what side of that fence you'll fall on probably depends on how old you are when you watch it. Seeing it at eight years old you'll probably just laugh at Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci's robbers, The Wet Bandits, endless abuse at the hands of Kevin.
Seen when you're a bit older and the plot premise—and the level of abuse the robbers suffer seemingly without sustaining life-threatening injuries—just seems totally unbelievable. (In fact, watch the video above from Vsauce to see exactly how much pain Kevin's booby traps would inflict in real life.)
It seems Twitter has been revisiting the film in adulthood and has taken to the social media platform to count the ways in which the film's plot is severely lacking.
Depending on your own views of the movie, you'll either find Twitter's remarks amusing or slander. Have a look below, ya' filthy animals.
Loving how Harry and Marv are willing to risk literal life and limb for resale of stolen VCRs #HomeAlone
Hilarious that a kid worried about burglars just ran straight into his house without unlocking it at all... #HomeAlone
I dunno bout you, but if I messed my house up like this as a kid - burglars or no burglars - my mum woulda kicked my ass so hard #HomeAlone
The real big bad in #HomeAlone is the check-out person who over-packed Kevin McCallister's shopping bags.
After successfully booby-trapping his entire house, why is Kevin so impressed by the Old Bloke with a snow shovel? #homealone
Kevin wakes up, rings Mum's mobile and then orders an Uber to the airport... I'm glad #HomeAlone was made in 1990
And you don't have not one friend nor family member who was home to go over there? Not even a coworker? #HomeAlone
How can the McAllisters leave to go to the airport in such a hurry, yet leave their house so impeccably neat? #homealone
Watching Home Alone and Kevin really told his moms, "I am upstairs, dummy." A black mom would've sent him to God. 20 minute movie.