Most Rewatchable Scene
Final trap sequence
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- The family losing Kevin and realizing he is absent is the first nominated scene.
- Kevin buying Chinatown fireworks is an appealing childhood fantasy.
- The free limousine with pizza, Coke and a television is another childhood wish-fulfillment highlight.
- Kevin scattering pearls to escape the renamed Sticky Bandits and using the videotape against hotel staff are nominated; his exact remote timing is implausibly expert for a hotel VCR.
- The pigeon lady’s heart-to-heart is perversely rewatchable because its long adult relationship confession to a lost child is so misguided.
- The pigeon-lady material duplicates the heart already supplied by the toy-store owner and hospital donation story, and her unrestricted Carnegie Hall access is implausible.
- Kevin preparing traps has the appeal of a Commando-style weapons montage, amplified into a sadistic fantasy.
- The trap sequence includes four falling bricks, a staple/nail gun, slippery ladder and floor, falling tools, electrical sink, burning head and exploding toilet; the worst injuries should be fatal.
- Further punishment includes sand, the swinging pipe, tool chest, burning rope and falling paint cans, accompanied by taunts about injury.
- The kerosene-soaked rope is one favorite gag, especially the confused burglars and futile demand to climb upward.
- The pipe is the competing favorite, from the paint-can fake-out through the fall into the basement and the pipe dropping onto them.
- The mother finding Kevin at the tree is criticized for both characters’ oddly subdued reunion.
- The final scene selection is the chaotic destruction in the renovated apartments.