Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) - 26 corrections

Directed by Chris Columbus, starring Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Stern, Joe Pesci, John Heard, Macaulay Culkin (add more)

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Entry When Kevin is in his hotel room in the Plaza and hears a knock on the door, "Room Service," he runs into the bathroom and turns the shower on full. The next time we see him he has set up the blow up doll and a pully system in the bathtub/shower. He is 100% dry. How did he set up such a system under running water without getting wet? [Nothing specifies whether he sets up the system immediately after the 'room service' arrives, or if has been there before then. Considering it involved an inflatable 'Bozo the Clown', it seems as if he needed more than the time given to blow it up.]
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Entry No one is seen lining up at the cash register at Duncan's Toy Chest. A place like that would have a whole bunch of people lining up after their conversation was finished. [Duncan's Toy Chest also has things like trampolines the kids can jump on. A lot of the parents probably spend most of their time getting the kids off the toys. A fancy place like that likely would have more than one cash registar too so there could be people at a different one.]
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Entry When Kevin rolls out his "Operation Ho Ho Ho" plan, the printing on it looks to be done by a very young child, with backwards letters, even. But later, when they show the note he wrote to Mr Duncan (the one he wrapped around the brick he threw through the window) the handwriting is much neater - and even a little feminine. [The "Operation Ho Ho Ho" plan was in Home Alone, not Home Alone 2.]
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Entry In the scene where Tim Curry sneaks onto Kevin's hotel room, the time difference from where he knocks on the door until he arrives at the bathroom surely isn't enough time for Kevin to inflate the clown. And there is no point in inflating the clown beforehand, because how was he to know someone would sneak in? [He knew he was under suspicion. It's not illogical for it to have been inflated already just in case.]
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Entry When Harry and Marv finally catch Kevin after he escapes from The Plaza, Marv looks at Kevin's boarding pass and says 'Round trip to Miami' before tearing it up. However, Kevin didn't have his boarding pass at this stage - he lost it crashing into the woman at the gate, hence why he got on the wrong plane in the first place. [He got on the wrong plane because he was following a man in a trench coat whom he thought was his father and turned out not to be. It had nothing to do with his boarding pass, so there's no reason he shouldn't have it in this scene.]
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Entry The newspaper at the beginning of the movie says that the "Sticky" Bandits are seen lurking around NY. But afterwords, when they are hiding in the fish truck, Harry says "Here we are, Marv, New York City." So they just arrived? [New York is more than just the city, it is a fairly big state. The Sticky Bandits may have been doing a few jobs (or just 'lurking around') in upstate New York, before going to New York City itself.]
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Entry Just before Kevin's plane to NYC takes off, he puts on a pair of headphones and listens to some music. In reality, passengers are not allowed to use any electronic equipment (laptops, cell phones, headphones, CD players, etc.) in order to ensure no interference in communications between the plane and air traffic control during takeoff and landing. [Since when do kids follow the rules? Besides, the stewardess could have told Kevin to remove the headphones after the announcements.]
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Entry When Marv kicks open the front doors to Kevins' uncle's place, the doors slam into the walls and stay still. They don't bounce back [When Marv kicks the front doors, observe the speed of the doors when they open. The doors open slower than expected to be, giving the doors less momentum to bounce off the walls and showing that the hinges of the doors are sticky (which is an acceptable possibility considering the condition of the house.) Doors with well-oiled hinges will fly open faster than the doors shown in the movie, giving them enough momentum to bounce off the walls.]
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Entry Jeri Ryan (Seven of Nine in 'Star Trek: Voyager', and most recently from 'Boston Public') is the cheating woman in the fictional old movie Kevin watches: "Angels with Even Filthier Souls". [Ryan does not appear in the movie-within-the-movie, nor is she credited in the ending credits.]
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Entry When the McCallisters are in the airport van, Kate gives Megan her ticket and then Megan and Liddy compare their tickets and Megan asks Kate, 'How come none of us are sitting together?' How would she know if she only compared her ticket with one other person? [The McCallister's probably have had their tickets for some time and that time at the airport wasn't the first time they saw their tickets. They probably would have had time to ask others where they were sitting and compare their tickets.]
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Entry Kevin takes his father's backpack to New York, but if its his father's bag, then why does it say "Kelvin McCallister" on the back when his father's given name is Peter? [Kevin brought 2 bags to New York, his dads bag was not a back pack.]
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Entry When Marv goes to wash his hands after being covered in paint Kevin is supposed to turn the electricity on. If you look closely he actually turns the switch off. [He turns the switch "on". "ON" and "OFF" are clearly marked at either end of the switch.]
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Entry When Kevin is going up the garbage tunnel for the first time, you see an exterior view of the tunnel wobbling. Off to the left of the screen, you can see a string attached to the curve of the tunnel, which is causing it to wobble. [This is supposed to be there. The rope (not string) is holding up the garbage tunnel, and is visible throughout any shot of this.]
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Entry When the bellhops chase Kevin into the elevator, Kevin says, "I've committed credit card fraud." While he is saying his line, you can hear Tim Curry on the other side of the door beginning his line, "Get me security." Then, in the next shot, Tim Curry says the same line over again. [He says "Get me security" more than once. Twice whilst Kevin is inside the lift, and once when the camera goes onto Tim Curry. This isn't a mistake, he just keeps repeating this line as he is angry at Kevin getting away.]
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Entry In the first film, Kevin says that he's 8 years old at the checkout counter in the grocery store. However, in this film at the hotel counter scene, he says he's 10. When his parents are in the Miami airport security office, they say that he was left alone last Christmas. That would make him 9. [It could have been possible that Kevin was born in the Christmas season and that he was first left behind before his birthday, making him 8 years old. You then have a whole year where he's 9.When we finally catch up with him in part 2, the family could of went on the vacation after celebrating his 10th birthday.]
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Entry The reason the family almost miss the flight is because the alarm clock is re-set when the father is un-plugging it to get his camcorder charger. When the clock is disconnected it makes a fairly loud beeping sound. Now, with the parents sleeping just inches from the clock, don't you think they would hear this beeping? They can't be heavy sleepers because the sound of the door-bell is enough to wake them, especially in such a big house. [I have that kind of clock and it doesn't beep at all when disconnected or when it's plugged back in.]
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Entry When the vans from the airport arrive, notice the second van to arrive smashes the statue in front of the McCallister's door all over the pavement, when the whole family is running out of the house into the vans, the statue is standing perfectly again like it hadn't been touched at all. [While the van did strike the statue/figurine thing, it was not broken. The driver of the van had time to set it back up before any of the McAllisters noticed it. This is a humorous reference to the first film where just about everyone who drove up in the driveway struck the statue. ]
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Entry At the start of the film, Kevin tapes his Uncle Frank singing in the shower, but he doesn't tape all of the singing. When Kevin is in the hotel in New York, he plays back the tape when the blow up clown is in the shower, all of the singing is on the tape, including something his uncle said when Kevin ran away from him. [Kevin only ran away after Uncle Frank was done threatening him, meaning he did tape everything we hear repeated in the Plaza shower.]
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Entry When Harry sticks his flaming head in the toilet, there is an explosion and the scene shows the exterior of the house with the front doors closed. The doors should be open seeing as Marv previously kicked them open before he fell in the hole. [It wouldn't be that hard for wind or a draft to close a door.]
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Entry Harry and Marv could easily see that Kevin was taking their picture with an instant camera. But later Harry asks Kevin to give them the camera, even though the pictures he wants wouldn't be in it. [True. Very true. But remember how stupid these two characters are. They aren't exactly the cream of the crop]
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