The Butch’s Girlfriend Award for the Weakest Link in the Film
The parents losing Kevin again
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- The central premise requires parents who already left Kevin once to travel all the way to baggage claim without noticing he is missing again.
- Enjoyment requires accepting both the repeated separation and burglars surviving injuries; otherwise the movie becomes an exercise in objections.
- The mother’s confidence that ten-year-old Kevin can survive alone in New York seems drastically under-panicked compared with an ordinary parent’s brief scare.
- A scene admitting parental failure is suggested; the luggage joke to a police officer is the film’s insufficient attempt to acknowledge the absurdity.
- Kevin should notice no relatives on a lengthy flight, and the parents should return immediately instead of inspecting their Florida hotel room.
- The entire household oversleeping in bright daylight because one alarm is unplugged is implausible before a major family trip.