When it comes to universally beloved Christmas movies, Home Alone is up there with the best. Its sequels don’t always get the same appreciation (except one, at least), also making it one of the most inconsistent franchises in movie history. To that end, we’ve decided to rank every Home Alone movie.
With two beloved movies and a spate of less appreciated efforts, it’s not a list likely to surprise. Even so, thanks to the timelessness of Home Alone’s premise and the sheer entertainment factor of watching children brutally injure home invaders, every movie in the franchise deserves a level of respect. After all, the Home Alone movies are Christmas classics for a reason, aren’t they? Here’s every Home Alone movie, ranked from worst to best.
6. Home Alone 4 (2002)
When deciding on the worst movie in the Home Alone franchise, we didn’t need to look any further than Home Alone 4. First off, it’s parly a pointless remake of the original movie and part unnecessary sequel, featuring a cast of different actors largely unable to live up to their original counterparts. It’s almost as if recycling a beloved family favorite just a decade after its original release was a bad idea, isn’t it?
Not only is Home Alone 4 ill-advised and unimaginative, it’s thoroughly dull. It manages to drain the characters of much of their humor and charm, and simply borrows context without employing any of the elements that made the original great. The decisions behind the film were certainly odd, but Home Alone 4 is actually less a remake/sequel than it is a butchering.
It’s not entirely without merit, though. It’s ridiculous and unfunny, but ventures occasionally into so bad it’s good territory. Big fans of the original are likely to be enraged, but it does still boast all the trappings of a Home Alone movie, so it would be unfair to write it off entirely.
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