NOKW - Home Alone

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  Home Alone

Basic Plot:  The McCallisters leave for vacation but forget that brat of kid behind who then does what any kid would do if left alone, he foils a couple of neighborhood burglars.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that no matter how fast you have to leave the house and no matter how many people you have going on vacation, there is no way you forget a kid.  The fact that if a kid as young as Kevin was portrayed to be was left home alone that he would definitely seek someone out because there is no way he would have known how to feed himself.  The fact that the thieves thought flooding people's homes after robbing them made any sense.  The fact that people think this movie is one of the best Christmas movies ever made, no chance, this movie is mediocre compared to A Christmas Story and Die Hard.  The fact that Kevin was able to set up so many booby traps and not set off a single one himself.  The fact that Kevin was able to set up a zip line from his house to his tree house by himself.  The fact that the bad guys were able to keep moving after taking so much physical damage to themselves, seriously, a hot iron to the head would make me quit trying to catch that little bastard right away.  The fact that the crazy old guy was able to take the bad guys out so easily when Kevin's house of horrors couldn't.

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that Kevin's parents don't constantly call the cops or neighbors until someone goes and finds their kid.  Honestly, they call the cops once, the cops go by the house and don't find anything, so Kevin's parents don't bother to pester the cops until they do find him.  It's not like Kevin could be anywhere else, they left him home (alone).  And sure, most of their neighbors are out of town also which is why Joe Pesci and that other guy are robbing everyone else, but do they not have any other friends who live nearby that know Kevin and to whom he would open the door for?  And what about the old creepy guy who ends up saving Kevin at the end of the movie?  He's at home.  Sure, Kevin's parents may not know him that well, but at least he is nearby and they could call him to go by and check on the kid.  But no, they give up on this easy solution to their problem and decide to try and make it home to find him themselves.  Hell, if they called the house enough, I'm sure Kevin would have eventually picked up the damn phone.  I am not okay with that.

"How do they keep falling for these booby traps?  After the first one, I wouldn't touch anything without checking to see if it had a hot iron attached to it or something."