Siskel & Ebert (TV Series)

Wag the Dog/Home Alone 3/For Richer or Poorer/Deconstructing Harry/Scream 2 (1997)

Roger Ebert: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Gene Siskel - Host : [reviewing "Home Alone 3"]  If this movie had a theme song, it would be "Dumbbells Keep Falling On My Head". The story makes no sense. I feel for every family that's gonna be suckered into seeing "Home Alone 3".

  Roger Ebert - Host : Now this is gonna astound you, but I'm giving the movie thumbs up.

  Gene Siskel - Host : It DOES astound me. Are you okay?

  Roger Ebert - Host : Uh, better than YOU were the day that you liked "Starship Troopers".

  Gene Siskel - Host : Okay, oh no, that was exciting.

  Roger Ebert - Host : I'll tell you why I liked the movie: This movie empowers little kids, this is the one where they finally got it right. I liked it better than the other two.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Than the ORIGINAL "Home Alone"?

  Roger Ebert - Host : It makes- little kids love the idea that they can somehow affect the outcome, that they can have, uh, power over grown-ups.

  Gene Siskel - Host : That's in number one!

  Roger Ebert - Host : That they can defend themselves, be smart and think about things.

  Gene Siskel - Host : He hammers thugs in the first one!

  Roger Ebert - Host : It's not as violent as the second one. The kid is charming, he really is a good little actor. And the plot is smarter than the other ones.

  Gene Siskel - Host : We completely disagree, I thought the kid was generic "mop top", and I thought that the...

  Roger Ebert - Host : Oh come on, THAT kid? COME ON!

  Gene Siskel - Host : Yes, there's only two, Culkin's better. And the other thing is, it's the same plot as the first one, only more bumps to the head.

  Roger Ebert - Host : They're ALL the same plot.

  Gene Siskel - Host : But you just said that this one empowers them more than the other ones, absolutely not true!

  Roger Ebert - Host : That's the secret of the- that's- that's why kids love these movies, because they love the fantasy that they have power.

  Gene Siskel - Host : But it's overdone! Overkill here!

  Roger Ebert - Host : Not for me.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Not for YOU.