Mom, I missed the plane again: same but better? [critique]

Christmas is coming. It's time for Chris Columbus' cult comedy to return to TF1.

During this end-of-year holiday season, the traditional rebroadcast of Mom, I missed the plane and its sequels are available on Tuesday evening on TF1. When it was released in 1992, First had liked Mom, I missed the plane againan episode where Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) gets lost this time in New York. There he meets by chance the burglars who had tried to steal the valuables from his house in the first opus, still played by Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci, who will again suffer the little boy's cruel traps. To the greatest pleasure of the spectators, wrote François Forestier in his review. A funny analysis of the film, filled with notes of intentions from director Chris Columbus, and especially opinions from his two own children.

The brilliant interview with Macaulay Culkin, 10 years old, for Mom I Missed the Plane

Returning first to the crazy success of the first episode, he then explained that he had been a little personally tired of this sequel that was too close to the construction of the first part, but he also recognized several qualities in the film, and assured that the youngest would watch it. 'worship.

“My two sons have seen it twenty times. I wonder what they do apart from that? Maybe they go to school, who knows? (…) Mom, I missed the plane again therefore uses the same ingredients, with twenty minutes more, which is not necessarily a good idea (but my two sons think it's a film awesomeso I'm not going to quibble. They are six and nine years old. They are obviously right.) (…) The central idea of ​​this film is to do the same but better. The trouble is that it's still the same. The family loves their son. The family loses their son. The family finds their son: that’s a bit like the pattern. With more money. Adults will feel like déjà vu. They won't complain about it, since the kids will be delighted. (…) There is even an endearing new character: an old lady who feeds the pigeons in Central Park, mute, whom Kevin will meet and who will be the last person he will want to see again before leaving for new adventures . In addition – a bonus for adults, anyway – the stunts, which were one of the strong elements of the first version, are legion here, only better. Bandits falling from the third floor, through a huge scaffolding and crashing into fifty boxes of varnish… Not bad, right? “It’s a type of comedy, very physical,” summarizes Chris Columbus, “based in part on the old Keystone Kops films and on the Marx Brothers, whom I admire enormously. With a touch of Warner Bros. cartoons. It’s like if we had dropped Bib-Bip and Vile Coyote in our film The bad guys will be beaten, but no one is killed.

The real story of the fake Mom, I Missed the Plane movie