Adventures in Babysitting (1987)'s comments

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DerekFME

A thoroughly pleasant way to spend 90 minutes. Nice colours on the costume design.

12 years 2 months ago

PinkLightsaber

One of my favourites for some reason, I love movies like these where protagonists meet various characters in one night. Like Date Night!

12 years 11 months ago

Based on Adventures in Babysitting, Elisabeth Shue should have been in a thousand successful movies. She is so winning as a babysitter doing "one last job" and having to take her charges into the big city to help a friend... and then everything goes wrong, they get involved in a dozen crimes and a musical number, as zany character upon zany character tries to prevent her from achieving their goal and getting home before the parents do - big Ferris Bueller vibes. The story is tight - if something's been established, even as a gag, it's gonna play a role eventually without you seeing it coming - and each of the kids also gets to shine, even baby Anthony Rapp as the necessary 15-year-old perv that was a stable of 80s comedies. Speaking of babies, Bradley Whitford is also in this as a teenager (let's see some ID, I'm not as convinced). The soundtrack is pretty great and doesn't feel dated either. This could have been a simple runaround, but the characters are imbued with a quirky strangeness that works in the film's favor, whether that's the little girl being obsessed with Marvel Comics' Thor, the one-handed trucker named Handsome Jack, or a touch as simple as putting Shue in light Doctor Who cosplay. A lot of fun.

3 years ago