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Ty Burr
Ty Burr is a writer at large for EW and is no relation to Raymond or Aaron
It's derived from the Hank Ketcham comic strip, but the mixture of peppy sadism and pious, self-righteous sentiment comes straight from John Hughes' crabbed cinematic heart. Mason Gamble lacks the lookit-me smugness that marred Macaulay Culkin's performance in ''Home Alone 2,'' and Walter Matthau is a marvelous, beetle-browed Mr. Wilson. But when Dennis starts aping ''Home Alone,'' the complacent kiddie brutality gets taken to a whole new low. Christopher Lloyd makes like ''Twin Peaks''' Killer Bob as a psychotic tramp with a switchblade -- he's a homeless guy presented as Evil Incarnate. And somehow the laughs just don't come when you watch a happy little blond tyke cover him with welts and set him on fire.
Posted Jul 16, 1993
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