Not quite as funny as I expected. Still worth a few good laughs.

Fun, but not too funny

Jonah Hill cannot carry a film; he is a character actor. This is essentially a remake of Superbad, but much worse and with overt rather than implied homosexual themes. The only decent comedy actor in the whole film is the little girl. The rest of the cast is not funny at all.

Hill is almost unlikable in this which takes away from any sympathy you might feel. I think it also undercuts the character's revelation moment and some fairly funny reaction humor. Rockwell is insane, and there should be a spinoff movie about that drug dealer.

Some laughs and he said he used a double punch.

I haven't watched a less funny comedy in quite some time. It's not awful, but it would better if it was. This just simply got no reaction from me at all.

I tittered twice...

Pretty much all points go to Sam Rockwell. A waste of time.

Feels like two different films, neither of which work.

Things I learned from the Sitter. Violent psychological disorders can be cured through one minute speeches. The support of gangs can be earned through a few simple hand gestures. Gay kids can be spotted through some text messages and a quick glance on the subway.

I really hate Jonah Hill!

Worth a watch

The first major problem with this film is the shocking lack of originality, but this shouldn't necessarily impede on the ability of the film to entertain. Sadly its not only full of ideas that have been done before a million times but the jokes are also shockingly limp to anyone old enough to not find crude words instantaneously amusing. Apart from a few funny moments the only positive aspect of this movie is the tragically underrated Sam Rockwell who does an amazing job as always.

Worst. Film. About. Babysitter. Ever.

It's Superbad, but worse. Rockwell was kinda fun though.

I'll admit, this movie had some funny parts. Otherwise, it makes absolutely no sense and is stupid in every way possible.

Passes the time.

Bad news: they remade "Adventures in Babaysitting". Worse news: it stars Jonah Hill.

a hilarious comedy that is very well done

The thing they missed about all of the 80's movies they were emulating was that the hijinx in those was incidental and fun. Not stuff that makes you terrified for everyone involved and actively start to dislike the protagonist.

Hill flops half the time but Rockwell is the real star of the show, every minute of him is pure gold. I guess this sort of makes up for Allen Gregory....

The first half is pretty enjoyable but it became tedious quickly. Sam Rockwell is totally believable as the gay drug dealer and Jonah Hill looks like he's about one twinkie away from an aneurysm. If you enjoy watching kids get treated like shit you will probably like this. Also I don't understand David Gordon Green's career path right now, does he have a drug problem or something?

David Gordon Green: Quite possibly the only director ever to get persistently worse with every movie he makes. Oh, how I long for the days of "George Washington" and "All the Real Girls".

Nice entertaining throwback. All performances were good, especially Hill. Music was good as well. Karl's place was hilarious. Unfairly maligned in my opinion.

Not laughed so hard in a while, Sam Rockwell is a treat.

Watch Adventures in Babysitting or anything else with Johan Hill instead. God, this film is so insufferably average. (Full review here: http://tinyurl.com/6n5bghq)

The comedy's quite hit or miss and the characters are pretty generic cardboard cutouts of "what it means to be a youth in today's world." Hill without question carries the movie, but his awkward guy shtick tends to get old (his Devil Wears Prada lines are painful).

The Sitter isn't a great -- radical -- advance like Jared Hess' Gentlemen Broncos (a classic-in-waiting), but its fondness for kind idiosyncrasy outlines a humanist view similar to Hess.

I've seen worse, I guess, but it's just not that funny, especially compared to Jonah Hill's previous "wacky comedy of escalation all set on a single night" film, Superbad. I did enjoy Sam Rockwell as the drug lord.

Nothing about this movie will blow anyone away, but it's not terrible. It's funny (but never hilarious), embraces it's 'R' rating without having the kids constantly cussing for cheap laughs(they do say some stuff but it's not over the top), has a few nice performances (Sam Rockwell, 3 main kids), and has a short enough run-time that it's a tight film. Too bad it's incredibly unrealistic and based mostly on escalating stupid premises.

really funny 10 out of 10

Poorly written shlock that grasps pointlessly in far too many directions. Setting aside its nonsensical narrative, it also fails to be appreciably funny, Hill is fencing deadpan without a foil. The children, while cute and genuine, are given precious little to work with, and they have by far the best developed characters.

the OST was kind of unnecessary, didn't add anything to the movie most of the time. as did...the plot. note: making fun of it doesn't necessarily improve your shitty story. plus: max records was way better in where the wild things are. still kinda funny.

Hill's the whole show, and 75% of the funny stuff's in the previews, as is usually the case in movies like this. But it's not as junky as some of the reviews have been stating. There are nods herein not only to "Adventures in Babysitting" but "The Warriors," "After Hours," "Spanking the Monkey" and a little bit of "Ferris Bueller." David Gordon Green's clearly a guy who's still in love with the movies. That affection's visible, if not exactly enough to lift this above the pedestrian.

Movies like The Sitter require viewers to suspend disbelief, incredulity, morals and at least 80% of their brain cells if they hope to survive the experience. Take kids to a drug dealer? Blow up a restaurant bathroom and escape? Great! Rob your own father blind? Wrap up the night—a night that boasts assault, drug possession, grand larceny and child endangerment—by driving back home in a completely trashed minivan and pretending nothing went amiss? And getting away with it?! (pluggedin.com)

Essentially a re-make of "Adventures in Babysitting"

I'm a fan of Jonah Hill, but this wasn't that great of a movie. Most of the humour was "isn't this so fucked up?" type of humour, and none of it was really that bad. I liked the little girl in it, she was fun. The other two kids weren't very interesting though. Sam Rockwell was alright, I don't really get why he would sign on to a movie like this though. Also why is the poster of a stripper, when there wasn't even a stripper in the whole movie.

Don't quite know where the strippers on the poster was supposed to be in this movie. On another note, don't quite know where the fun part was supposed to be in this movie? And a common interest in some astrology shit isn't enough for the former fat Jonah Hill to score with a really good looking girl, c'mon!

"Of today's working directors, is there a bigger genre-swapping sellout than David Gordon Green?" - R. Kurt Osenlund