Best Holiday Film Sweet Seventeen: The Santa Clause (7) vs Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (10)

[Chris]

The Santa Clause
Release Date: November 11, 1994
Directed by: John Pasquin
Starring: Tim Allen, Wendy Crewson, David Krumholtz, Judge Reinhold, Eric Lloyd, Peter Boyle
Plot: When a man inadvertently makes Santa fall off of his roof on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.



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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Release Date: November 20, 1992
Directed by: Chris Columbus
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Tim Curry, Brenda Fricker, Catherine O'Hara
Plot: One year after Kevin McCallister was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he accidentally finds himself stranded in New York City - and the same criminals are not far behind.


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[Kairi HoHo]

IF I had my way these two would be in the Final such a tough decision to make. I just watched Home Alone 2 last night on FX still gets to laugh so hard.

 

[Chris]

Home Alone 2 for me

 

[Marty McFourth]

I actually think Home Alone 2 has slowly overtaken the first for me, at least if I'm watching purely for the traps. Watching it recently again, I realised how much I enjoy it. I'd say the first has the better story, but shit Marv gets electrocuted and gets bricks thrown at him. Kevin goes wild in this one.

 

[Deezy]

The Saw prequels are better than those shit Tim Allen movies.

 

[Moon Bird]

Donald Trump or Tim Allen.... Hmm....

Well I hate both of them

But I hate one of them more

You win this time Tim Allen...

 

[Deezy]

Voting against a movie because of a cameo

 

[Keith]

Voting against a movie because of a cameo

To be fair if your undecided its not a bad way to split the difference. Its just a cameo which has aged badly.

Don't think I've ever seen The Santa Clause so won't vote here. Home Alone 2 pretty much delivers as a sequel. It lacks the heart of the first film for me.

 

[Deezy]

To be fair if your undecided its not a bad way to split the difference. Its just a cameo which has aged badly.

Don't think I've ever seen The Santa Clause so won't vote here. Home Alone 2 pretty much delivers as a sequel. It lacks the heart of the first film for me.

That's silly, a better deterrent for not voting for Home Alone 2 would be that this is the movie where the protagonist stopped being an innocent prankster to a full fledged sociopath....look at how he rammed up the electricity when Marv was getting shocked.

 

[Keith]

That's silly, a better deterrent for not voting for Home Alone 2 would be that this is the movie where the protagonist stopped being an innocent prankster to a full fledged sociopath....look at how he rammed up the electricity when Marv was getting shocked.

I think you can put that down to it being a sequel and them having to up the stakess. Those scenes were always a live action cartoon anyway.

 

[Deezy]

I think you can put that down to it being a sequel and them having to up the stakess. Those scenes were always a live action cartoon anyway.

First movie was about stopping a home invasion, second was a flat out murder plot lol.

Marv and Harry were victims.

 

[Keith]

Yeah doesn't bother me, its not as good anyway. The electic shock scene is lame because there's no slapstick involved which is what made the stunts so good in the first film.