10 Movie Sequels Whose Titles No Longer Made Sense

2. Home Alone 2: Lost In New York

Home Alone is the film that suggests that accidentally failing to keep track of how many children you have and leaving without one is just one of those amusing little things that happens to all families (well, maybe it does to David and Samantha Cameron). Not to worry though, parents, because the kid is more than capable of finding the exact dialogue in an old gangster picture needed to buy a pizza and other vital survival skills. The entire extent of the dramatic occurences in the movie develop as a result of Kevin being left at home. Alone. That's the whole point of the title, which meant that a sequel that created just the opposite crisis was always going to struggle for a sensible name. Home Alone 2 has cinema's most neglectful parents utterly fail to notice their kid's absence once again, this time as he boards a flight for the Big Apple while they head for Florida. While in many ways the slapstick violence and villain foiling contraptions repeat the plot mechanics of the original, the whole thrust of the film is that Kevin is not at home, alone or otherwise. In another Connecticut-Georgia scenario, the film's title is internally illogical by offering us two incompatible geographical sites. It was a mistake that was not repeated when the utterly unambitious Home Alone 3 repeated the original's plot with a different kid in the situation of being both at home and alone.