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Lee Mack and Chris McCausland are bickering neighbours who have to fend off thieves in Sky's TV movie take on Home Alone, which is pretty fun for a Christmas romp.

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00:00It's Home Alone meets Deck the Halls in the Sky TV movie Bad Tidings.

00:05Lee Mack and Chris McCausland are fusing neighbours whose rivalry goes too far

00:09when Mack ends up knocking out the power to the entire suburb.

00:12That leaves it open to a family of thieves on Christmas

00:15and it's up to Mack and McCausland to stop them.

00:18This very much plays towards its comedian's established personas

00:21with Mack being a curmudgeonly oaf

00:23whilst McCausland, who also co-wrote the script,

00:25doing a lot of physical comedy based around his blindness

00:28and the pair of them, who are real-life friends, are an amusing double act.

00:32My main problem with the movie would be the lighting.

00:34They should have gone for a more stylised approach

00:36instead of being realistically dim

00:38because staging slapstick comedy in the dark is a bit counterproductive.

00:42It's unabashedly derivative

00:44but it's a pretty fun Home Alone tribute act

00:46with some good pratfalls and traps.

00:48As I watched a blind man catapult cans into the forehead of a pound-stretcher Marv

00:53I couldn't help but think that John Hughes would approve.

00:55Certainly it's a better Home Alone sequel than anything after the second one.

Bad Tidings (REVIEW) | Projector Shorts | Lee Mack and Chris McCausland are Home Alone

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