20 Movie Sequels Everyone Knew Were A Huge Mistake (But Still Got Made)

19. Home Alone 3

A sure-fire way to deliver a terrible sequel is by stripping away every single thing people loved about the previous ones, and that's exactly what Home Alone 3 did.

When the threequel was in early development, the intent was for Macaulay Culkin to return as Kevin McCallister once more, but when he took an acting hiatus in 1994, the filmmakers decided to pivot rather than scrap the project, centering it instead around a new protagonist, Alex Pruitt.

Culkin is so iconic in the first two films that this alone was a godawful idea - no shade to Alex D. Linz, who did a passable job with a thankless role.

But it got even worse given that Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern's Wet Bandits also weren't in it, being subbed out for a wildly inferior new batch of villainous thieves.

And so, you're left with an absolutely woeful sequel that, almost impressively, is still the third-best Home Alone film considering the utterly dire sequels we've had since.