THE SITTER
R
81 Minutes
Director: David Gordon Green
Writers: Brian Gatewood, Alessandro Tanaka
Jonah Hill, Ari Graynor and Sam Rockwell
Cast
Jonah Hill Noah Griffith
Max Records Slater
Ari Graynor Marisa Lewis
J.B. Smoove Julio
Sam Rockwell Karl
Landry Bender Blithe
Kevin Hernandez Rodrigo
"The evening soon explodes into an endless whirl of hair-raising adventures! Babysitter and kids leave their safe suburban surroundings and head for the heart of the big city, never imagining how terrifyingly funny their expedition will become!"
-Quote from IMBD Storyline
The IMDB storyline for THE SITTER? No, it's for ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING (1987). Coincidently, it applies to this movie as well. They switched a few things around, kind of like HOME ALONE and HOME ALONE 2.
When I saw the preview for this movie: I thought they were trying make a bad movie look good.
There's that cliché of a female babysitter who invites her boyfriend over.
"My shirt is chafing me. Do you mind if I take it off?"
"Now my pants are chafing me."
We can't have clichés: good thing this movie is about an irresponsible male who babysits.
This story takes place in Manhattan, and what looks like Garden City. Noah is babysitting 3 kids. Long story-short, Noah eats too many fudgesicles out of the freezer. He drives to the grocery store to replace them. The fudgesicles melt on the way home. To make matters worse, they aren't even the right brand. No, this didn't happen, but the film would have been far more entertaining if it had. I won't bore you with details of what actually happens, because I'm not sure myself.
Jonah Hill was good In CYRUS(2010) and MONEYBALL (2011). He has excelled in dramatic roles, and he is capable of being funny. As for why he completed this project? I have no idea, and it isn't like this movie looked good on paper. Yes, we all make mistakes, but we don't all commit atrocities.
High Points-high...get it
Method Man's character was pretty funny. Method Man, Ghostface...I down with anything the Clan does; like David Duke and his respective clan.
To sum up the movie in a short phrase: lovable loser grows a set of balls.
There was no real ending, it's like the movie was made by bunch of stoned 8th graders; just looking for a D-Minus on a school project. We hear that Biz Markie song (you know which one), while the credits roll, and we see some bad drawings.
And that part where they tell you what the characters are up to: it doesn't make any sense.
81 minutes is short, even for a comedy, but not short enough for this film.
Final Verdict: 20 out of 100
