4. Home Alone 3 (1997)
They were pushing it at two
Home Alone movies as it was, because c'mon: how does the exact same thing end up happening to the same kid twice? Even the producers of these movies probably realised that it would be insane to suggest that young Kevin McCallister (as played by Macaulay Culkin) could get into another scrape that saw him separated from his family, and opted to do the story with another kid instead: Alex D. Linz. By this point, you'd have thought that audiences would have been pretty tired with the concept surrounding this franchise, and despite the fact that it plainly sucked,
Home Alone 3 still made nearly twice its budget back at the box office. Go figure. But here's a movie that only exists to reprise the beats of the first movie, struggling awkwardly to walk the fine line between blatant rehash and playful tribute. In almost every way, it fails.