‘The Sitter’ is a comedy movie about a college student undergoing suspension and pushed into babysitting some kids next door. And yes, he is totally unprepared with the wild night ahead of him and the kids.
The plot is pretty much familiar already. There is this guy who does not like hanging around with kids but he is left with no choice but to babysit three. Then everything wrong that you can possibly imagine happens. With all these, the movie all becomes too predictable. The three kids of course clash with the babysitter all throughout the entire movie until they reach to a point of eventually getting all cozy and warmed up for each other.
There are lots of awkwardly done bonding scenes for the kids and the lead character. I say it’s awkward because it somehow feels that it is so unnatural. It simply has too many unrealistic elements as it progresses on to its ending. It just continued to become more and more ridiculous as it moves on. For the usual audience, this can send out everyone laughing. But of course, for the more serious critics, it will be no fun at all. Well, at least it has its own funny element – that it did not make any critic laugh.
It has its own edges but it is not that good in majority of the perspectives that you would look at it. The storyline is something you would consider as overused making it not funny but totally unrealistic. It will make you feel embarrassed that it wasted the time of many talented people involved in it.
The strong performances surprisingly came from the movie’s supporting cast. There were a lot of queasy laughs here and now but all in all, it is a movie that showcases the goofiness of Hill along with his regular Joe personality. The script may just simply let you down that all you can hope for in the end is to find it becoming better and funnier eventually.