25 Worst Christmas Movies Of All Time
22. Home Alone 3 (1997)
Surely one of the most pointless movie sequels of all time (until Home Alone 4...and Home Alone 5, anyway), Home Alone 3 attempts to wring the last few box office dollars from the iconic Macaulay Culkin-starring franchise...by giving the series a soft reboot with a new protagonist.
People thought the second Home Alone was a desperate and lazy movie, but it's a masterwork compared to this, which recycles the same idea with a few uninspired new tricks and a cast you won't even begin to warm to (though seeing a young Scarlett Johansson is vaguely amusing).
Two more depressing facts: the legendary John Hughes (who wrote the two originals) also wrote this one despite it having none of his usual creative stamp, and Roger Ebert gave it 3/4 stars, calling it "better than the first two." Christ.