You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character.
“A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.”
“I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.”