Awesome / Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

• Kevin's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to his whole family, topping it off by calling his uncle Frank a cheapskate. What makes this even better is the look his parents exchange after he leaves—it's less one of anger or indignation and more "How did he peg him so well?!" Not to mention Fuller and Frank himself being just as stunned. It's even more satisfying in light of the events from the first movie. Frank called Kevin a "little jerk" during the pizza scene which stopped him from explaining his side of the story to his mother. Kevin finally got back at him for that.
  Kevin: I'm not sorry! I did what I did because Buzz humiliated me. And since he gets away with everything, I let him have it. And since you're all so stupid to believe his lies, I don't care if your idiotic Florida trip gets wrecked or not! Who wants to spend Christmas in a tropical climate anyway? (He begins to walk out of the room)
  Kate: Kevin!
  Peter: Kevin, you walk outta here, you sleep on the third floor.
  Fuller: Yeah, with me.
  Kevin: So what else is new?
  Frank: You better not wreck my trip, you little sourpuss. Your dad's payin' good money for it.
  Kevin: Oh, wouldn't wanna spoil your fun, Mr. Cheapskate. (Kevin walks out of the room; cue Mass "Oh, Crap!" from Frank, Fuller, Kate and Peter)
  Buzz: What a troubled young man.
• Despite everyone oversleeping, Kevin is the first one in the car. He reveals that he's all packed and claimed the front seat. Kevin also brandishes his passport and ticket, saying snarkily that he's not letting them leave him behind again.
• Kevin scaring the concierge out of his suite by using his recording of his uncle's singing and his inflatable Bozo the Clown pool toy.
  "Get outta here, you nosy little pervert, or I'm gonna slap you silly!"
• Then later, Kevin uses the "Angels with Even Filthier Souls" tape to make his getaway from the Plaza Hotel staff.
• Kevin's mom slapping the Concierge.
• Previously, when Peter suggests that Kate stay at the hotel, she tells him she is willing to search the streets of New York for Kevin.
  Kate: The way I'm feeling right now, no mugger or murderer would dare mess with me!
• The entire premise of the trap sequence wasn't just to save himself or to save his family, but to literally save Christmas for New York City and the children in the hospital.
  Kevin: You can mess with a lot of things, but you can't mess with kids on Christmas!
  • It also comes with another brilliant musical segue, this time from the touching and tear-jerky "Christmas Star" to the good old "Setting the Traps".
• Again, the traps. "Setting the Trap" returns as well.
• Marv gets one when Kevin tauntingly asks them if they have given up/had enough pain. He yells 'NEVER!' defiantly.
• The pigeon lady pulls off an awesome Big Damn Heroes moment by distracting Marv and Harry from shooting Kevin and then throwing bird food on them.
• When Harry and Marv are arrested and make fools of themselves in front of the cops, the head officer says in an annoyed, "I don't have time for this" tone, "Get 'em outta here."
  • Even better, Kevin's plan to expose Harry and Marv is beautiful in its simplicity. When they break open the cash register and donation box at Duncan's Toy Chest, Kevin gets their attention and takes pictures of them in the act. He then hurls a rock with a note through the window to activate the security alarm to distract the thieves so they'll follow him instead of continuing with the robbery (the police later recover all the stolen money). When the police finally catch them, they find the pictures Kevin took and a tape (recorded on his Talkboy) of the pair's plans to rob the store and murder him afterward. In short, Kevin presented an orgy of evidence for the cops and ran off into the night to find his family.
• While searching for Kevin, Kate flags down an NYPD cop in Times Square, who basically tells her to trust the police to do their job. In response, she asks if he has kids. When he says yes, Kate asks, "And what would you do if one of them was missing?" This gets the cop to help her out, and his question — "Put yourself in your kid's shoes. Where would you go?" — leads Kate to figure out that Kevin's love of Christmas trees would lead him to Rockefeller Center, site of the biggest one in the city. Their subsequent reunion is a cross between awesome and heartwarming.

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