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DIRECTOR: CHRIS COLUMBUS...
...precisely follows the formula that made its predecessor the biggest grossing comedy in human history. But no, it is not a drag, and it is not a rip-off. Look on it as a twice-told fairy tale. And look on its tellers, writer John Hughes and director Chris Columbus, as craftsmen who have taken the responsibilities of success seriously. They have acted not as caretakers of valuable property but as trustees of something millions regard as a kind of national treasure, pop-culture division...
Hughes and Columbus have kept the faith in two ways. By maintaining the overall structure of the first Home Alone, they create a comfortable sense of anticipation. In a general way you know what's coming, and you know it's not going to be yucky. On the other hand, the details of the situations are developed vividly and originally. And they are presented with an energy and a conviction that sequels usually lack...
...Columbus, a director who can make a routine shot of a couple of airplanes taking off artful and full of portent, who completes our entrancement. He has -- no kidding -- a vision of New York City, a nicely dislocating blend of charm and grunge. It's not quite real, not entirely fanciful. It is a child's-eye view of the place, full of glamorous shimmer and eerie shadows, a haunted Disneyland...
...using new strategies to recover some of the land, resources and sovereignty they lost in the past 500 years. They have negotiated, sued, launched international campaigns, occupied land and, in a few cases, taken up arms to press their cause, marking in their own way the quincentennial of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World -- an event Native Americans rank as the greatest single disaster in their history...