Showdown: ‘Unaccompanied Minors’ v. ‘Home Alone’
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Yonkers native Tyler James Williams (right), who plays the title character based on Chris Rock’s childhood in The CW’s “Everybody Hates Chris,” is one of five rambunctious teens running amok in an airport in the flick “Unaccompanied Minors.”
With the movie slated for release this Friday, Suburbarazzi compares the potential of the film against its eerily similar 1990 predecessor “Home Alone.”
- Child star: Tyler James Williams v. Macaulay Culkin  Williams is a star on the rise. Culkin’s career peaked with “Home Alone,” then there was the whole lip-syncing someone else’s rap in Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” video. Winner: “Unaccompanied Minors.”
- Panicky Mom: Some Woman Doing A Weak Catherine O’Hara Impression v. Catherine O’Hara  Puh. Leez. Not only did O’Hara’s “Kevin!” resonate through cinema history, her work in any of Christopher Guest’s films makes her impossible to beat. After all, “God loves a terrier.” Winner: “Home Alone.”
- Setting in which Panicky Mom realizes kid is alone: Home, worried about kid in airport v. Airplane, worried about kid at home  You can’t ignore that the pitch for “Unaccompanied Minors” probably was “Hey, remember ‘Home Alone’? That movie, except reversed.” Winner: “Home Alone.”
- Meddling men: Lewis Black and Wilmer Valderama v. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern  So, it’s “That Daily 70’s Show” vs. “The Goodfella Years.” The pairings are weird enough to begin with, so comparing the tandems is frickin’ impossible. My brain is about to explode. Winner: Push.
- Thoughts of two sequels bring viewers: Indigestion v. Scarlett Johansson  Sorry, Williams. But you wouldn’t turn down the modern-day Johansson, either.
Final score: “Home Alone” 3, “Unaccompanied Minors” 1.
Celebrate by saying hello to your creepy-looking neighbor, who’s actually a very nice guy.
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Don’t know about “Unaccompanied Minors,” but “Everybody Hates Chris” is pretty darn funny. (Or at least that one episode I saw while on an airplane was funny…)
Agreed. And “Everybody Hates Chris” soundly defeats Culkin’s sorry excuse for a Saturday morning cartoon, “Wish Kid”:
http://www.dicentertainment.com/uploaded_images/large_wish-kid-volume-1.jpg