Good concept, poorly executed.

Better Late Then Never

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

A rating of 1 out of 10 and even this is too generousHow so called "Comedy" movies like this ever make it through and get a "green light" for production will forever astound me. Some producers must have huge egos and even bigger bank rolls. I can only surmise that a deal was struck between the producer and Jonah Hill, (or with the director) that they had a total free hand to put on the silver screen whatever their warped minds thought would be funny, or that would shock their audience.Well surprise to the audience and the producer. This was a total failure on all fronts. If I was Jonah Hill I would not expect to be receiving many phone calls from any prominent producers or directors in the near future. But again to my amazement we see that Jonah Hill is up for an Academy Award for a Best Supporting Actor award for the feature film The Wolf of Wall Street. Go figure?But take my advice The Sitter is a total waste of time and minus any sense of drawing laughter or any memorable moments. The shock and awe opens up the film with a disgusting scene and the film continues to stink from the opening scene to the end of the film. I am sure no one was more disappointed than the script writer who must have envisioned a different film from the onset than the finished product the director and/or editor created.If I attempt to compare The Sitter to a film such as Robin Williams' 1993 film Mrs. Doubtfire, the pretense of a Babysitter themed film assisting young and confused children find their way through troubled times may be a comparison one could make, but the end product of these two films are like comparing night to day. There were so many good scenes in Mrs Doubtfire and so many bad scenes in the Sitter. Don't waste any time seeing The Sitter, it is just that bad.A rating of 1 out of 10 and even this is too generous!

Let's start with the good news, there is a good performance in "The Sitter" That of Roxanne ( Kylie Bunbury). Bad news: That is it. First off this movie IS a raunchy, offensive, predictable movie, complete with every character from the gay kid with identity issues, to fat the kid, to the violent Hispanic to the streetwise Black people, all of which you expect to see in a bad movie with no thought behind it. It might be the worst remake I have ever seen ( In this case, "Adventures In a Babysitting") and as someone who has seen that movie multiple times I would know. It goes without saying that a bit fat slob like Jonah Hill ( Noah Griffith) is not hot like Elisabeth Shue ( Chris Parker), but the kids are inferior ( particularly comparing Sara ( Maia Brewton)), to nasty Kardashian like Sister Blithe Padilla ( Landry Bender), who is essentially a Bratz Doll. Her gay brother was even more obnoxious ( these kids should be watched by Dr. Phil not a babysitter). Where else can I go? You can spot each and every scene where the film steals a shot from "Adventures In Babysitting" like where Roxanne returns the electronic piece to Blithe ( just like what was done with Sara's skate in "Adventures In a Babysitting."). By the way you can spot about 20 such scenes. Particularly bad is how the butchered the "Babysitting Blues" scene. Another thing they did was basically combine Brenda ( Penelope Ann Miller), with Chris's arrogant cheating b/f ( the one who Daryl ( Anthony Rapp), gave a swift kick to in the restaurant), and created Marissa ( Ari Graynor), who seemed like she is stoned throughout the entire movie. Spoiler Ahead: Jonah does end up with Roxanne in the end, like Chris does with the college student who returned the skate in "Adventures In Babysitting" but why I have no idea? He is pathetic and crude and she is classy and intelligent. Basically I give 1/2 star for Roxanne and that is being generous.

Noah Griffith (Jonah Hill) is a college student on suspension. He is coaxed into babysitting the three kids next door. He is unprepared for the wild night ahead of him. He gets called by his girlfriend Marisa (Ari Graynor) and gets entangled with a crazed drug dealer (Sam Rockwell).This is sorta like 'Adventures in Babysitting (1987)' except it's more mean-spirited. Sam Rockwell plays a bad guy that's way too silly. Jonah is way too unlikeable. There just isn't any joy in this movie. The jokes doesn't really work either. There is a couple of good scenes but it is too unlikeable.

Despite being a comedy movie with a lot of chaos as practically everything goes wrong when Noah Griffith takes the kids he's babysitting on a road trip to get some drugs for his 'girlfriend' this movie shows a lot of character growth and has a very good 'moral' behind it.For instance, Noah tells Slater of how he has realised that Slater doesn't have any big problems and that he is actually gay. Noah helps Slater a lot in his acceptance of his sexuality by telling him how in college no one will care and how it is perfectly okay to be gay. Also Noah realises that his hot girlfriend is just using him and doesn't have any actual feelings for him and ditches her for a nicer girl from his old astronomy class who admits to have been too shy to talk to him at school. Finally Slater confronts Rodrigo about how scary he can be which helps Rodrigo to open up more to his new family meaning they can all get along better.So no this movie is not as bad as people are making it out to be, it is actually a very funny movie with a very good ending.