The first two Home Alone movies starring Macaulay Culkin as Kevin Mcallister are absolute holiday classics (although they don’t have a ton to do with Christmas.) So it’s understandable that 20th Century Fox wanted to keep the property alive even after Culkin aged out of the role. The result of that was Home Alone 3-- a movie that has nothing to do with the first to in the slightest (except vaguely copying the formula.) The movie raises a ton of questions-- like why are the stakes suddenly so high? How did the bad guys get all their spy tech through airport security? Why did they steal a dog? Why did they rent a house? And maybe most importantly-- how are the bad guys surviving all these insanely precise traps?