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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) - 34 corrections

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

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family

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Why Kevin didn't just throw camera to Harry and Marv?He had pictures with Harry and Marv in store,he couldn't lose anything,and Harry and Marv would then stop chasing him,as Harry said. [This is, at best, a question of character motivation. Perhaps Kevin thought that the two thieves, who he knows to be repeat criminals, were lying and would continue to chase him after he gave up the camera. Or maybe he thought that they were seeking revenge for what he did to them last time, and so giving up the camera would not matter. Either way, this cannot possibly be considered a movie mistake.]
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I know that the film is reduced to Harry and Marv's falling on Kevin's traps,but in real life,putting head with fire in flammable fuel would burn Harry to bone,not just smear him. [Gasoline itself does not burn; only the fumes it gives off burn. Once the flames were submerged they'd be immediately extinguished, resulting only in the minor burns you see in the film.]
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Kevin has his dad's bag, whose name is Peter, and while standing in front of the toy store when Harry and Marv spot him, the bag has "K. Mcallister" stitched on it. It should be a "P" since it is his dad's bag. [Kevin put his dad's bag in his own backpack. So the backpack belongs to Kevin aka "K. Mcallister".]
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When Kevin is running away from the hotel staff, he runs into his hotel room and he doesn't close the door, he just opens it and runs in the room. But when the staff reaches the room, the door is shut all the way, and they have to open it to get through. [Hotel doors are heavy, so they close on their own.]
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When Kevin records the commercial for the Plaza Hotel, the phone number is cut off by his father's voice. When Kevin is in the hotel later on, he plays the tape and his father's voice is not on it at all and he is able to hear the phone number perfectly. [Kevin had his Talkboy's microphone pointed directly at the TV, so it captured the sound right in front of it and not his father's voice in the background.]
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There is a moment in the movie when Kevin is throwing bricks at Marv and Harry. If you watch the moment of the first throw in slow motion you can see that Marv has blood on his forehead before the brick hits him. [If you can only see it in slow motion it does not count.]
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When Kevin first arrives in New York and does all of his site seeing, there is a point where he is standing in front of Radio City Music Hall. He turns his back to it and takes a picture of whatever is across the street. He would really just be taking a picture of the side of a random building, there is nothing picture worthy across from Radio City. [Just because the building may not be of any significance doesn't mean there wasn't something picture worthy happening on the street in front of it, specially considering this scene takes place in the center of New York during the height of the Christmas Season when there's decorative displays, Santas collecting for charity, holiday performers and a dozen other events that an average tourist would certainly deem of interest.]
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Why didn't anyone spot the burglars in the fish truck? Someone must have in a crowded place like that. [Who says no one saw them? And if they did, why should they care? It's New York City. People have done crazier things than hide in a fish truck.]
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When the McCallister kids are all asleep at the Plaza, the shot shows Fuller in the big bed and a few seconds before he wakes up, you hear somebody from behind the camera whisper, 'Wake up.' You have to be close to your TV to hear it and it couldn't have been any of the other McCallister kids saying it because everybody else was sound sleep. [That is actually the sound of someone snoring. It does sound a bit like words, but it definitely isn't "wake up".]
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When Harry and Marv get hit by the toolchest, Harry asks, "What was that?" Marv answers, "That was the sound of a toolchest falling down the stairs." They had not been on the staircase it came from, and had not seen the toolchest or the stairs - both were blocked by the door. [Considering the amount of noise the toolchest made, it's not a stretch to think that they were able to deduce what it was.]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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