Home Alone 3

9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip. Now Alex must fend off the spies as they try to break into his house to get it back.

Critics largely rejected this Culkin-free sequel as a pale imitation of the original, but the film generated one of the more memorable critical disputes of its era: Roger Ebert called it genuinely funny and an improvement on its predecessors, while Gene Siskel so strongly disagreed that their on-air argument became a minor internet phenomenon decades later. Audiences who saw it were kinder than critics, suggesting the film works better as disposable family entertainment than as a worthy continuation of the franchise.