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A college student on suspension is coaxed into babysitting the kids next door, though he is fully unprepared for the wild night ahead of him in an unforgettable overnight adventure through the streets of NYC. It's anyone's guess who's going to make it home in one piece.
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19 of 24 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Inredeemably bad in every way, Mar 4 2012
By James Beswick "In my day, we had 9 planets." - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: NEW Sitter (DVD) (DVD)
The Sitter manages to be unfunny, predictable, dull and ridiculous all at the same time. It starts badly with Jonah Hill failing to get sex from his coke-addicted girlfriend and quickly scrapes right through the bottom of the barrel to rip off every babysitter film ever made.The three kids in the film are a collection of two-dimensional problems that make the adults look like Dickensian-crafted characters. The kid from Ecuador think he's from a cartel because - you know - he's South American. Floppy haired anxiety kid is coming to terms with being gay because that's such a great concept for comedy. And celebrity obsessed brat #3 is really annoying. The stereotypes don't stop there - there are some 'gangsta' black people who are really just cool folk in the end too.
Around the end of Act 2 the film is forced to try to reconcile all these situations in some really terribly written scenes that show the kid from Ecuador should be more family oriented and less completely crazy, kid #2 should accept his sexuality (at 12 years old!) and kid #3 has to wipe off the excess make-up. Jonah meanwhile realizes his girlfriend has been using him and hooks up with an arbitrary friend from college who happens to be cocktailing.
The basic problem with the film isn't the absurdity (The Hangover barely makes sense but is a great flick) - it's the fact that there isn't a single laugh in the whole movie. Sam Rockwell limps his way through this and somehow his thorough beating near the end seems out of key with a kid-focused comedy. How this script ever got made is beyond my imagination - if this is all Hollywood has, please keep remaking classics and giving us sequels. I had to rewatch Uncle Buck just to remember what comedy looked like.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Three-and-a-half stars for this sleeper, April 20 2012
By amerdale876 - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: NEW Sitter (DVD) (DVD)
Despite the majority of critics panning this film, I had to check this movie out -- especially after seeing that hilarious trailer ("Don't *@$# with me, Rodrigo."). And I was surprised by it. I thought it was fun and had more funny parts than most critics let on. Of course, this is a very perverse version of Adventures in Babysitting, and it's not as wholesome as that 1980s classic. But, despite its foul language and very adult situations, "The Sitter" has more heart than one would think -- with Jonah Hill dealing with the three kids he's been tasked to watch over. If you have a night where you're feeling like laughs, this one may surprise you.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
The Sitter, Mar 21 2012
By A kids review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: NEW Sitter (DVD) (DVD)
Jonah Hill is currently riding high on his recent Best Support Actor nomination at the Academy Awards and the surprise success of his '80s reboot 21 Jump Street, but if we go back just a few months, we'll find The Sitter. The latest raunchy comedy from David Gordon Green, The Sitter stars Hill as a layabout who reluctantly takes a babysitting gig, only then to be lured to a party by the promise of sex from his girlfriend. A wild evening full of drugs, car theft, robbery, and more ensues, all with three young children in tow. I found little to like about the film, with its recycled plot contrivances, inappropriate humor, and what seems like a phoned-in performance from Hill himself.
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