We live in rented honeycomb-like structures to extract maximum rental value, performing all our work in VR offices managed by social media companies. The concepts of “home” and “alone” no longer exist.

Historians rediscover the original movie Home Alone, and over the course of 16 academic papers, explore these antiquated notions. The first four papers cover the economics by which noncorporate entities have legal rights and may own land. The next four the idea that some places could be different from others, making leisure travel relevant. After that, the idea that physical goods could be owned (and therefore “stolen” by “thieves”), not only leased as a DRM-protected service.

The final four papers are just screaming.

Home Alone 16 takes place at the same time as Home Alone 13

You can see this on the calendar in the kitchen while the Wet Bandit Corp are setting up for the hiest

This normally would be seen as a silly little Easter egg but unfortunately this becomes a plot hole when you realize that the leader of the group in Home Alone 16 at the time of Home Alone 13 would have been a child. Which they obviously aren’t in Home Alone 16.

That’s just the biggest one, don’t even get me started on the production consistency. (Teleporting props, disappearing and reappearing injuries, things that didn’t exist at the time the film takes place appearing in shots, etc)

Honestly thought Home Alone 11 was the lowest point of the HACU but 16 really brought the whole cinematic universe down.

I can’t wait for 17 though

Edit: Apologies, I read it as the “plot hole” of Home Alone 16. The plot is pretty messy overall for Home Alone 16 so it’s kinda hard to follow.

But the long and short of it is that the Wet Bandit Corp does a massive heist on the McCalister Group totally billions of dollars in priceless artifacts. They of course (like the previous ones) encounter some obstacles put in place over the generations of McCalister’s but given that it takes place in 2193 that’s really to be expected. It ends with a cliffhanger though so I’m excited for 17.

Edit: At least it wasn’t a “Heist competition” like Home Alone 11. Definitely M. Night Shyamalan’s worst movie. I can’t believe they brought him in for that one. It didn’t need a twist, it’s a HACU movie.