I Have A Bone To Pick With Home Sweet Home Alone

I never felt so much pain

Alexander Razin
4 min readNov 21, 2021
The movie didn’t care about quality, so why bother. Photo by Disney from Forbes.

On Friday, November 12, 2021, Disney Plus celebrated its inception with Disney Plus Day. On Disney Plus day, Disney released the new superhero cinematic badass, Shang-Chi. The latest film based on a Disneyland ride, Jungle Cruise, and one movie, one flick they had no reason to make: Home Sweet Home Alone.

Knowing Disney place it on their streaming platform told me it wasn’t good. Yet, I watched it to see what Disney came up with it.

I never expected a film to make me feel so much pain. Throughout the movie, I wanted to shut it off because I felt squeamish. It’s a good thing I ate nothing spicy at the Mexican Seafood restaurant I went to before watching.

The movie made me feel ill because the kid in Home Sweet Home Alone maims these supposed burglars because of a misunderstanding.

It’s one of the biggest misunderstandings in cinema history.

Home Sweet Home Alone’s new defender of the bulwark is Max Mercer, played by the adorable Archie Yates. Yates looks like me when I was younger, except for being British. His good ole mum Carol played by Aisling Bea forgets to take Max with her to Japan, leaving him alone. I’m not surprised if Disney studied children from the mid-’90s until now to create the…

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Alexander Razin

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