New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce - Is Home Alone a Top 5 Christmas Movie? ft. Kylie Kelce | New Heights Film Club

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

On this edition of New Heights Film Club, we are joined by Kylie Kelce to review the 1990 Christmas classing "Home Alone." The Kelces debate if this is a top 5 Christmas movie of all time, if Peter McCallister is the worst movie dad of all time, and who is the "Kevin" of the Kelce family.New Heights airs every Wednesday during the NFL Season so make sure you’re subscribed to our YouTube Channel and follow New Heights on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts.You can listen to new episodes ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify....Download the full podcast here:Wondery: https://wondery.app.link/s9hHTgtXpMbApple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-heights/id1643745036Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/1y3SUbFMUSESC1N43tBleK?si=LsuQ4a5MRN6wGMcfVcuynwFollow New Heights on Social Media:https://lnk.to/newheightshowMerch:https://homage.com/newheightsSupport the show:AMERICAN EXPRESS: The refreshed Platinum card is here. Learn more at https://americanexpress.com/withplatinum. Terms apply. CACST #1022318BOARS HEAD: Head to your local Boar’s Head deli counter to discover game-changing flavor for every gathering. Boar’s Head. Committed to Craft Since 1905.REESE’S TREES: Grab REESE’S TREES today, found wherever candy is sold.AMERICAN EXPRESS: Learn more at https://americanexpress.com/withplatinumSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The only way this would have made sense is if the plane crashed upon taking off something that they never knew and everyone just died. That would have made sense that he was left alone for a little bit. What the hell? It wouldn't have been as Christmas Eve. Welcome back to another edition of New Heights Film Club, where you're also, I'm Travis Kelsey. This is my brother, Jason Kelsey.

The smoothest guys, you know, the guys that watch movies. movies very, very closely and critique and give you good. Subscribe on YouTube, 100, plus, wherever you get your podcast and follow the show on all social media at New Heights Show with one S. Jason, why don't you tell the people what exactly we have for this episode? Coming up on this film club, we are joined by Kylie Kelsey to revisit this 1990 Christmas classic Home Alone. Ooh, it's a good one. It's a good one.

Let's check it out right now. hear it. That's right. We're going to do a little Christmas New Heights Film Club Edition and the film that you guys chose for us to review is none other than the Christmas classic Home Alone. 1990. This movie came out in 1990. It was a 1990. I was surprised by that too. Wow. Yeah. Older than I thought it was. I don't did I feel like I saw it when it was like brand new, but I was only three years old. I doubt I did. I think it no. I think Home Alone 2 was the one that we were like yeah when was that you're looking it up no i'm not looking up home alone two was uh nope it was 92 so no we we still were pretty young um yeah either way

definitely thought it was like more mid the late 90s because we were uh we were kids when uh when we first were watching it but yeah yeah still a still a classic though when did you see the movie You weren't, you weren't even born. Yeah, look at me. So young. So young. I probably saw it, I saw it sometime in the 90s.

I know that. Okay. That narrows it down. So before I was eight. It's a good one for the kids. Have the kids seen it? Yeah. The kids have seen it.

Ellie calls it home alone. Very delgo. Love that. Benny does not like the slipping scene. She does not. She freaks her. out big time. I don't know why I'd fix her out that much.

Ellie was asking me about the zip line the other day. It took us a while to figure out what the hell she was talking about. And she was asking me whether or not you can zip line on the power line. She didn't say the word zip line. No, she didn't. She said on that rope. And then we had to get to, you know, the guy in whom alone does it. I'm like, I'm going to need more context in that.

And she's like, you've seen the movie, mom. And I'm like, yeah, a couple times. But I still don't know what the hell you're talking about. Still making no sense. Yeah, so we got to the bottom of it. She meant Zipline. I will say that when I was a kid, that was one of the like parts of the movie where I was like that, I want that.

For sure. You can zip line out of the house. That's what I want. I wanted to do. I think out of my window. I don't even need, they don't even need to see me downstairs. No. I can go right to my tree house.

I want a tree house. I mean, the whole thing. It was just. Yeah. I will say this. When the first scene hits after like the like when that music starts cramp cramp. It is so magical. It's just like it lifts me and I like start floating.

Yeah. The score is fantastic. That's a very well made film. I'm glad it was the first Christmas movie I watched this year because it really did make me be like, oh, wow, it is, this is Christmas. It is Christmas. Christmas is happening. And we're here.

We finally made it to December and that is the magical season is upon us. Well, let's start recapping the movie. Let's do this. Okay. Oh, gosh. How does it hold up? Oh, it's still correct. Very well.

It's still incredible. Still good. There's a few things that are starting to get dated. There's a few things that are starting to get dated, but because it's a nostalgic movie that takes place in a time, it's a period-specific film now. I think it's sold. Yeah. Teachers kids can't trust cops.

Well, you can't trust anybody. Cricket cops. Yeah. You can't trust cops, but you can trust the creepy man across the street. Man with the shovel. Yeah. He just looks at you awkwardly. Yeah.

Have you ever wished for your family to disappear for sure? Are you talking about when you were growing up or right now? All the above. That's crazy. Maybe not wish for it, but definitely, like, thought of a life where it wasn't the reality. And then was like, all right, whatever. It's not ever going to happen. It's not even worth wishing.

It's not even worth. I only get a few wishes. The ones that I really want to come true. Did you guys ever run away from home? No. I definitely did. Yeah, me too. I definitely ran away.

I might have packed a bag, but I was such a rule follower. I was like, I can't run away. I think I, like, grabbed a bag of chips and threw it in a backpack and, like, a few toys and then fucking got down the street and just, like, hit in the bushes. I do think that there should be a trend on social media of what was packed in a kid's runaway bag. And not grown-ups recounting it. I'm talking about when a grown-up takes a-up, yes, takes a picture of a kid's runaway bag. I think that that would be because you know it's going to be three Legos, right?

Juice box. A stuffy, a single juice box probably already drank and maybe a half a snack. Don. Yeah, I didn't, you guys are ahead of me. I never, I didn't even pack a bag. I just walked to you guys and I walked out the door and I started walking. He ran away the same way he goes to Vegas. Just I know where I'm going.

It has everything I need. And then I got to the stop sign. I said, I don't know where I'm going. And I don't know how to go. Friends house. He doesn't know how to get there, Trave. It was, I was not going to that. Hameless.

Jason, yeah. Everyone was terrified of Jason. leaving away because he'd never make it home we would really have to search for him I'll let you answer to this trap who was the Kevin and who was the buzz in the Kelsey household I think it's I think it's going to stand true no matter what household it is the older siblings is buzz versus the younger siblings um because it's just I mean it is what it is the older siblings always you know have fun with picking on the younger ones and the younger ones always wish that they were older and like had more responsibility so they would stop getting treated like they were

irresponsible so you you identified as Kevin yes 100% I always watched the movie thinking I was Kevin I never watched it and I like saw myself as Kevin I liked Kevin I liked the movie but I never was Jay I don't know that you're a plane or like Kevin. The honesty, the Rube Goldberg system that he implemented is. The map,

the entire map that he had that he's like where. I mean, he's like an offensive coordinator. He should be an office coordinator. Who is fucking brilliant. I was like, holy shit.

I didn't know. I didn't even remember that from like the first like 30 times I watched the movie. I saw that map and I was like, whoa. Wow. This kid. Kevin's going to be something.

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It is made in the 90s. There are people that surprisingly don't know anything about the 90s that I frequently encounter. So I think they're out there. That's sad for them. All right. Recap of the movie. There is a family, the McAllister's, who are vacationing over the holidays to France.

Not just mom, dad, and the kids, but uncles and aunts. Big family vacation. going over to France for Christmas. And as they are getting ready, there is also a group of burglars. This is a very well-off area who have decided to try and stake out a neighborhood to find out which families are leaving for the holidays and which homes might be good ones to rob. And when the family is getting ready to leave the night before, power outage,

so their alarm clocks don't go off on time. The family has to rush out the door in the morning because they're running late to the end. airport. And in this rush, they forget one of their sons. They forget Kevin McAllister. He's in home, up in the attic, up in the attic, asleep. They get to the airport. They think they got everybody. They take off for France. And mom doesn't realize until she's halfway over the ocean that poor old Kevin is still in the mean streets of Chicago. Kevin wakes up, where's my family? He has no idea all of a sudden. Well, he wished for his family to You're right. I didn't want to, yeah, I guess that is an important plot. He did wish.

So at first he thinks that he actually wish them away. And Santa Claus had granted him his Christmas wish. And then he realizes the predicament he's in and that he's a child and he can't fend for himself. And he starts to panic and all of these things happen where he's fearful and whatnot. And I guess in order to say the plot, these burglars that have been casing out the neighborhood know that the McAllister's are leaving. So they go back to this neighborhood to burglarize a bunch of different homes. They call themselves the wet bandits.

And that's our thing. It's so good. In the process of burglarizing these homes, Kevin notices one of the burglars who is in his house and perhaps the worst idea ever for a burglar to go expose your face to a bunch of people before you rob their home before you've done it. It just seems like a very bad idea. The wet bandits weren't too good.

Hey, let's go rob all these homes. Hey, first, let's go show up at their house and show our face. And then when they come back, like, hey, the cops were coming around the neighborhood earlier this week. No, we weren't. We had a cop in our house. No cop was in that neighborhood that night. Yeah, it was a cop with a gold tooth.

Anyways, yeah. Anyways, Kevin notices this burglar, and he realizes that he's in trouble. So instead of having a security system, like you would expect a very wealthy family of the McAllister's, 1990. Okay. They still had security systems. One thousand percent they did. 1,000 percent.

But nice neighborhoods, yeah. Anyways, McAllisters, they're all gone. Kevin's by himself. Wet bandits are coming in. Kevin has to try and figure out a way to deter them. He does a great job of utilizing light systems and all the typical things. But eventually the wet bandits realize he's on his own. He knows that they know that he's on his own.

So he's got to think smart. So he decides to set up a series of Rube Goldberg events throughout his entire house to inflict damage, harm, and slow these burglars down. he's not calling the cops what because the power lines the phone lines don't work in this ridiculous made-up scenario is that what's happening get i don't think he ever thought to call the cops i think he just like took it upon himself to defend himself this whole fucking okay so yeah i want to get to the end of this so we can get to the absurdity of this plot uh anyways in epic fashion kevin gets the better of the wet band it's time and time again joe pesci and god

damn it what's the other actor i never remember it's not randy Quay, what's the fucker? He's very good. Daniel Stern. Daniel Stern. One of the two names in the, uh, fuck. Harry and Marv. Harry and Marv, thank you. Marv is, uh, Daniel Stern. All right. Anyways, Harry and Marv, they try to get into the McAllister's house. Kevin McAllister does a great job of setting up all these booby traps. They can't get in. They're trying to get in. Eventually they get in, then they get up to the attic, then he ziplines out of the attic. It's a whole thing. no point are they robbing them. They're just trying to apparently get Kevin and kidnap him or something like that.

At some point, they just say, fuck this. This kid is ruining our day. We're about to get after this motherfucker. And it all ends with the neighbor down the street saving the day. And the web band is being caught and Kevin being reunited with his family, safe and sound. Where do we want to start off with this? I want to start off with, we've kind of, I kind of mentioned earlier that I always thought I was Kevin.

Do you guys now watch that movie as if you're the parents? I don't think those things. This might be the most unrelated parents I've ever seen in a Christmas movie. I mean, it's just it's blatantly, I mean, listen, everybody goes to the like, like you leave with one, without one of your kids at some point. I feel like that's like a very standard thing. You should not feel shame for that necessarily. Maybe you forget about it long enough to take off an airplane.

Yeah, probably should feel some shame there. But who the fuck? Like, I just don't understand how you can't call somebody to go get this fucking kid. Like there's, there wasn't cell phones back then, Jason. Ridiculous premise that this one neighborhood is out of phone activity. You could call the cops. They have ways to call the cops. No.

She did call the cops. She called the cops in, like, that area. No, she called the cops in her neighborhood. Why are we calling? If they aren't helping, I'm calling other cops. I'm calling family members that are still there. They're holding. I'm calling friends.

That would ruin the plot of the movie. There is precisely zero percent chance that I am just waiting a couple days before I can fly back to Chicago to see what happens with Kevin. It wasn't. She got back in like a day and a half. I don't. There's no scenario. where you wouldn't be able to get somebody like anybody who got that call

anybody who got that call said hey I'm in the airport I'm on an airplane going to France I'm in France I left my kid could you go do that if it was like two hours away I would drive to go get a kid out from being by them so like this is just it's the dumbest thing above you only get so many calls at the airport Jason it's like jail everybody knows that that's the nostalgia of the 90s though is that there is like that it like it sounds so easy to just pick up your cell phone right now and just call everyone in that area and find it i'm not letting i don't know i am not letting i don't know if it was just that easy it was that easy everybody had landlines and anybody in the 90s could

have received a phone call this isn't the fucking 30s where you had to go to an operator and do no people knew people's numbers yeah i could have called it judy who would have drove 40 minutes across town to pick you up all their family all their family went with them to france i could have called steve bogus i think to come pick you up i could have called fucking i will say this the dad in this movie doesn't give a fuck was very disinterested he was like my sweetie you're going to try me that says there's no flights for another three days oh you're going to keep so fighting uphill battle right now he's lost give it up

he's done it's over we'll figure it out we got the whole other family to be we can't ruin everyone's vacation it's so true god damn that's a great forgot how easy it was to get on a plane

with like a ticket like you didn't like they she just handed an entire pile of tickets to the flight attendant and was like yeah is all of us. Like,

all right, cool, go on off. Yeah, all right. Good luck. Didn't even count the, how many tickets they had

and how many people they had. Yeah, I was like, oh, nice, we were looking for you. It's not good. I do think they did their best

to explain a way as much as they possibly could by saying that, a child would be home alone? No, by saying that all of their extended family, like every single person in their family was going on the shirt.

But why are we acting like we don't have phone numbers to people that aren't immediately our fan this guy worked at some fucking business like you could have called a co-worker like there's no way there's nobody he actually didn't give a shit so yeah he really is like well that's that's he's like are we getting chrisons the only way this would have made sense is if the plane crashed upon taking off so that they never knew and everyone just died that would have made sense that he was left alone for a little bit what the hell it wouldn't have been as christmasy

that's so messed up all right so yep poor poor banditing to go and show your face to the place you're about to rob before you go in there just have like somebody else that's not going to rob it you just pay somebody else to go in there and scope it out yep I guess then you're adding another person to the knowledge that you're doing it yeah but I don't know just wait until everybody leaves you got to split it yeah um I don't know I'm not a professional bandit I just felt like that wasn't the wisest of choices. What was your favorite? What were your guys' favorite part of the movie?

I like the opening the most, to be honest with you. The chaos of the Christmas. And there's like something. It feels like it feels very relatable, like running around, getting pissed off about really stupid things that only like siblings would be pissed off about. Like the one like family member that went. It's the bed. There's this.

There's not being enough pizza. Yeah. It just felt it's, and it also like the, the two-liter jug of soda and like the paper plate, all of it is just like very reminiscent of my childhood, I feel like, other than the enormously expensive house. Yeah. And the big family. And the big family.

But we already, we were around a lot of people around the holidays, even though it wasn't family, he was friends and we'd go to holiday parties. Yeah. The halls. And their holiday party, their New Year's Eve party was always so much fun. That's great. Yeah. Shout out to the halls.

What was your favorite part? I just, I love the, I love the mayhem. I love the mayhem of him planning how to fuck with them. Yeah. So good. So you're more about the planning than the actual execution. No, I think the execution, but I do just, you have to, you have to appreciate. how much thought and effort went into it

and the fact that it went off without a hitch. For things that happen precisely off of like a door opening. Like orchestrated, yes. Yes, very well orchestrated. I liked it. Trave, what about you? I'm going to go with the scene where he steals the toothbrush.

Then he runs away from the cops. It's an exciting scene. I think it was a very fun, yes, you flanked. And I think the funny part of that whole thing Is that a scene right after that, he immediately feels terrible for stealing? And I'm pretty sure he goes to church? Well, I thought he goes to the church to run away from the wet bandits when he, by the way, very perceptive by Kevin in that moment to see Harry and realize that's the cop

that was in my house and that this is not an actual cop and to like start walking away and then he runs to the church, he goes into the church before that or after that? He's in the church twice, isn't he? Yeah. Well, he goes into the church the night before, but then there is a scene where he runs to the church. I just thought it was so funny that he stole something

and then, like, as he's walking home, he's immediately tried to repent. He's immediately like, eh, I didn't mean to steal this. We didn't have any other choice. Yeah. I do got to say, I think it's probably, I didn't want to run from the cops.

I think it's got to be the best cast Christmas movie of all the time. Like, could you think of anybody other than McCauley Colcomb being Kevin? Like the facial expressions, it's... Yeah, he crushes it. He just did such a great job. Like, I don't know, like, the way he talks, he, like, feels more grown up than what his age is, but he still looks like a child and innocent, but he's got, like, this great dry sense of humor. The only one that I...

know that talk to grown-ups at that age like as if they were a grown-up was Patrick Pagan what did you guys said at the exact same because we've talked about this before he has been he has literally had this same demeanor and like ability to have conversations with grown-ups since we were like fucking three he would like bargain with our our east side kickers coach on like how many laps like it was like a discussion Like conditioning, you had to do five laps. It was like, I don't know. What do you think about three?

Three is good enough, right? I'm running. I mean, we're getting it. We're getting it done, right? We're going to be running during practice, too, so it might as well, you know? That's an interesting skill to have. Shout out to the bacon's. It's time to thank our partner.

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Perfect peanut butter stuff, chocolate trees. They might be the best holiday candy ever. It's up for debate. Every holiday tradition is better when you add Reese's trees. Holiday movies? Yeah. I mean, those go definitely better with Reese's trees. Ugly sweater parties.

I mean, who doesn't like chocolate stains all over, their ugly sweater? I do. Skipping the ugly sweater party to watch football in your sweats instead? I mean, that's a no-brainer, of course. I mean, you throw on that ugly sweater anyways. Yeah. So celebrate the season with peanut butter perfection, and be sure to grab Reese's trees today. Jason, why don't you tell them where to get them from?

Well, it's found wherever candy is sold. Literally, you can find it everywhere. I think I called you J-Som. Jason. Jason. Thank you to our partner, Gillette. All right now, Jason, you've been retired for a full year. Let's talk pregame rituals.

Do you miss them? Still have them? I kind of have one, I guess, for Monday Night Countdown. Like, I kind of go do the production meeting. Then I kind of iron out what's happening in the rundown. Then I go to the makeup lady. Then I go to the hair. And then I go on set.

I was just curious to see if you were putting that same game day energy into your new broadcasting routine. That's all. Well, first and foremost, it includes making sure that this beard is looking real nice, which is finally starting to show some of my grades again after dyeing it. I'm getting those natural colors back. Thank you. Thanks so much. But yeah, I have some grooming individuals that make sure it's looking nice and tidy.

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McCulley Cokin Joe Pesci and what is again Daniel Stern Marvin Harry Catherine O'Hara is the mom John Candy Yeah

John Candy the Polka Leaving out the band as a He was more invested than her own husband wasn't finding Yeah Who is better?

Marv or Harry? When you brought up best scenes, my favorite scene is really any scene where Marv is screaming. He is got an electric scream. He has an electric scream. That's he where is that jump fire is one of the greatest. You just set off the baby monitor. Or I guess he gets electrocuted. Harry's the one that has the head on fire.

When he's getting electrocuted and the whole like, so good he's he also steps on the ornaments i do think that well they both do right or is it just him i think it's him because i think harry's at the door handle oh yeah the burning door handle joe pesci kills it too they're both so good there's good in different ways it's a great movie it's got a whole like lenny and uh like of mice and menfield with like marv being the dummy and Joe Pesci being the witty one, but he's really not that smart. Where are you guys ranking Home Alone as a Christmas movie? Well, we're doing PFF grades, right?

But where does Home Alone rank? Wait, why does no one want to ask who would, who would nail this? Who would nail what? Who would go, who would handle a Home Alone scenario the best out of all of us? Travis, not any question. Are you kidding me? I would fucking thrive. And I've always thought Kevin McAllister was in Travis Kelsey.

You don't even think I have a, you don't even think I have a shot? I mean, it just. Wow. No. You would have been more planned out for sure. My instincts would have been fantastic in situations like this. Guys, they fucked around. I really think I could help them find out.

Nice. That's all. Well done. Yeah. All right. Where's it ranking in everybody's rankings? I'll go top five. I can't rank

like It's hard to go like one, two, three, exactly And I actually, I think I like Home Alone 2 more Really? I don't I'm going to have to go back

and watch Home Alone 2 now I like Home Alone 1 definitely the most Home Alone 2 is good though Still has the great Same cast Yeah I like the Pigeon Lady in Home Alone 2

Yeah She was great Top 5 I like Okay, which movies do I like more than Home Alone? Love, actually. Christmas vacation. Christmas story.

The Santa Claus. The Grinch. Oh, great one. I am not putting the Santa Claus above, but I do like the Santa Claus. It's a good movie. I think I like Home Alone more than that. You know which one I really like, which is a newer one, but I watch it every Christmas now is Claws.

You do love that one. Clouse from Netflix. Yeah. great Christmas movie. I'm kind of like a sucker for the claymation, Rudolph. Oh, OJ. I think I like elf better than Home Alone. So not top five.

I think it's just out of the top five for me. I'm going, I'm putting it in the top five with Grinch, Home Alone 2, and an elf. I'll probably say those three are probably the only ones I'm taking over it. I think it's either top five, maybe it's six. But I'm saying like the Santa Claus is up there, the original Grinch, not the original, I'm sorry, the Jim Carrey Grinch. Yeah. I mean, love actually, that's not a surprise to anyone.

Don't say anything. Nobody was asking. Yeah, I'd say it's probably top five, but I think it's like the number five slot. PFF grades. Christmasness. I think this is high in Christmasness. So all throughout the film, the whole reason this is happening is Christmas. It also has like the soundtrack, the setting, all of it.

Like, it's just very Christmassy. Yeah. Ten. I don't know if it can get more Christmassy other than the Grinch. Yeah, I mean, it doesn't have like Santa Claus, I guess. or like it has a reference to him it does it does

I don't know literally has him going to the church it has like the Jesus like what is it called in front of the church every church has it nativity scene yes yes it's not

but it's not like the Grinch or Rudolph or Frosty like it's not like a story that is directly associated with the concept of Christmas yeah I'm trying to like think of it It's not like 10 out of 10 to me,

but it's definitely very Christmassy. All right. One to a hundred. I'd say, like 98. I'll go 90, you go 98, you go 100. You want to go 98? Boom.

98. Acting. Acting. I'll go 100 on this. I don't think there's one piece of bad acting in the old film. Directing. Ooh. I'm going to go another 100.

Wow. Giving hundreds away. Just giving hundreds out? I'm waiting for, listen, I'm not the only one. You didn't even said yourself in this movie wasn't, is that more plot? I like it. It's just, yeah, I think that's more plot. I think that's more plot.

He's going to have a lot of questions. He's going to take, it's going to take the hit on the plot. We can go, we can go. Okay. If, yeah, Hunter, fine. Plot, where are we on? Plot, I will go. it's not a believable plot but is it a fun plot it's a fun plot it's not believable it's not based on a true story so I guess it doesn't have to be that believable but it does have some holes so I'll go I'll go 65 65 I was going to say 80 or 85 I think the plot is so 90s it's so 90s it's so 90s and it's delightful that it's delightful in that way that it's so 90s he's making calls from the airport pay phone it's so 90s it's so 90s it's so 90s it's making calls from the airport pay phone

Like, yeah. I think it's fun with. I'm going to. What's your number? So 80? 85, nice. Violence. Violence?

What? Why is it? Do you guys really enjoy violence that much? We needed a bot. We needed an extra category. Decent amount of violence. What is the other category when it's usually not violence? What is it?

We don't do Christmas. Action. What is it? Acting, directing, plot. All right. It has, I mean, the violence is high. That's not violent. It's not violent.

It's, it's physical harm. Yeah. But it's not like a violent. It's like a jockey. It's like a three-stitches. Yeah, but like, I mean, everybody knows the iron print on the forehead. I'm going to go. I mean, I just don't know.

It's low on violence. High in violence for a Christmas movie, but low and violence. This is going to ruin it's PFF grade. It really is. What do we? I don't, yeah. Can we do a different category

in the island? You should do, you should do, if you're leading towards like the action part of it, you should do more of like the finding out. Action? Yeah,

like the action of it. Like when they, with the action, like the meat of it. It's a high action. Is him doing the, right? Entertain me.

Entertainingness? The action. it is, I give it a 90. Yeah, sounds good. Yeah, that feels good. There you go. Who's doing the math? Brandon?

Yeah, they do the math for us. They put it in Excel. It's going to be somewhere. Yeah, 95. Great. It's a rounding air. It's a little bit cooler. Yeah, they definitely rounded that.

Yeah. No chance. We got an 80. A 98 in there. He's going to type more. Look at them. Yep, there you go. 94.6.

That was one of my favorite radio stations growing up. All right. Now, well, that does it for our Home Alone, New Heights Holiday Film Club. Recap right there. Jason, you did a great job on recapping the movie, as always. Merry Christmas, you fill the animals. That was great. You guys go and have the creepiest Christmas ever.

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