Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is a 1992 American Christmas comedy film directed by Chris Columbus, and written and produced by John Hughes.

Peter and Kate's ten-year-old son Kevin, unhappy with the trip, complains that Florida lacks the Christmas atmosphere of snow and trees.

At home, a frustrated Kevin refuses to apologize and berates his family for believing Buzz's lies and for wanting to spend Christmas in Florida.

In the ensuing chaotic rush through the airport, Kevin mistakenly boards a flight to New York City while carrying Peter's bag, which contains his wallet.

Kevin tricks the desk clerk at the Plaza Hotel into giving him a room using Peter's credit card, and then explores the city.

Kevin encourages her to trust others again and takes her advice to perform a good deed to atone for his mischief by stopping Harry and Marv's robbery.

Rigging the townhouse with an array of booby traps, Kevin sets out to disrupt Harry and Marv's heist by triggering the toy store's alarm.

Other cast includes Leigh Zimmerman as Fashion Model; Ralph Foody as Johnny (credited as "Gangster"), a gangster from the fictional film Angels with Even Filthier Souls; Clare Hoak as Gangster - "Dame", Johnny's girlfriend from the fictional film Angels with Even Filthier Souls; Monica Devereux as Hotel Operator; Bob Eubanks as Ding-Dang-Dong Host; Rip Taylor as Celeb #1; Jaye P. Morgan as Celeb #2; Jimmie Walker as Celeb #3; Ally Sheedy as New York Ticket Agent; Rod Sell as Officer Bennett; Ron Canada as Cop in Times Square; and Donald Trump as himself, owner of the Plaza Hotel who directs Kevin to the lobby.

In February 1991, the Los Angeles Times reported that John Hughes was to sign a six-picture deal with 20th Century Fox; among the projects was a sequel to Home Alone.

While the soundtrack is mostly a repeat of the first film's material,[19] there are a few new prominent themes such as "Christmas Star" and "Plaza Hotel and Duncan's Toy Store".

The soundtrack contains John Williams's cues found on the previous releases as well as additional compositions that were left out from the final film.

Numerous board games were also released, some based around play cards, while another was a close emulation of the classic Mouse Trap.

[33][34] It broke the short-lived record set one week earlier by Bram Stoker's Dracula for having the largest November opening weekend.

[36] Additionally, it achieved the highest opening weekend for a Chris Columbus film and would hold that record until it was surpassed by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 2001.

The site's critical consensus reads: "A change of venue – and more sentimentality and violence – can't obscure the fact that Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is a less inspired facsimile of its predecessor.

Most of the live-action attempts to duplicate animation have failed, because when flesh-and-blood figures hit the pavement, we can almost hear the bones crunch, and it isn't funny.

"[46] Kenneth Turan, reviewing for the Los Angeles Times, wrote: "Whatever was unforced and funny in the first film has become exaggerated here, whatever was slightly sentimental has been laid on with a trowel.

"[47] Dave Kehr of the Chicago Tribune wrote the sequel "plays like a coarsened, self-parodying version of the original, in which the fantasy elements have become grubbier and more materialistic, the sentimentality more treacly and aggressive, and the slapstick violence—already astonishingly intense in the first film—even more graphic and sadistic.

"[48] Brian Lowry of Variety noted the sequel's derivativeness when compared to the original film, but wrote the "action sequences are well-choreographed, if, perhaps, too mean-spirited even in light of their cartoonish nature".

[49] Janet Maslin for The New York Times acknowledged that "Home Alone 2 may be lazily conceived, but it is staged with a sense of occasion and a lot of holiday cheer.

Mr. Pesci and Mr. Stern bring great gusto to their characters' stupidity, to the point where they are far funnier just walking and talking than they are being hurt.

"[50] Reviewing for Time magazine, Richard Schickel noted "Home Alone 2 precisely follows the formula that made its predecessor the biggest grossing comedy in human history.

He further praised Culkin as "breezily winning", felt Pesci and Stern deserved combat medals, and Curry served as "a terrific foil for Kevin's pranks".

Nugent also opined that "by setting the final showdown in a house undergoing renovations, the filmmakers give themselves room to be more ambitious, wild, and far more brutal" and praised the work of stunt coordinator Freddie Hice since no CGI was used.

As in the novelization of the first film, the McCallisters live in Oak Park, Illinois and the crooks are named as Harry Lime and Marv Murchins.