The Sitter starring the uber-famous, used to be chubby funny man Jonah Hill as Noah, a fat unemployed slacker still living at home with his single mother (Jessica Hecht). Noah's mother guilts him into a babysitting job so she can go on a double date with the neighbors. The night of babysitting goes awry when Noah takes the kids out in their parents mini-van in search of first time sex with his new girlfriend played with usual ditsy club girl attitude by Ari Graynor. Think Adventures in Babysitting meets Superbad...without any of the humor.
The Sitter falls flat in every way. The story is generic, the jokes unfunny & the outcome of every scene is predictable. Hill is so far away from his solid recent performances in Cyrus & Moneyball, and Pineapple Express & All the Real Girls director David Gordon Green continues his slide with this directorial follow up to the early 2011 bust Your Highness. The script by new comers Gatewood & Tanaka makes you wonder how it ever got made in the first place. Even an unusual performance by the usually great Sam Rockwell can't save this sinking ship.
Any parents who may get tricked by their younger kids into thinking this could be a funny family film...think again, and take a closer look at the 'R' rating. This is not a film for the kiddies, and with the unfunny and dumb story...not one for the grown folks either.
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The Sitter falls flat in every way. The story is generic, the jokes unfunny & the outcome of every scene is predictable. Hill is so far away from his solid recent performances in Cyrus & Moneyball, and Pineapple Express & All the Real Girls director David Gordon Green continues his slide with this directorial follow up to the early 2011 bust Your Highness. The script by new comers Gatewood & Tanaka makes you wonder how it ever got made in the first place. Even an unusual performance by the usually great Sam Rockwell can't save this sinking ship.
Any parents who may get tricked by their younger kids into thinking this could be a funny family film...think again, and take a closer look at the 'R' rating. This is not a film for the kiddies, and with the unfunny and dumb story...not one for the grown folks either.
For more quick reviews check out www.FilmStallion.com