RavenGlamDVDCollector
...if that chases you off, then I have done you a service, for you will find little else here. There is Tuesday Knight, in one brief but very cute flash, hell, give me tiny but natural any day...!But about Alicia. Another reviewer put it so poignantly. "I'd watch Alicia in an insurance infomercial." Believe me, the kid is beautiful. The kid has a face that can launch a thousand... er, ships... But something else mentioned by another reviewer, "everybody's on autopilot" well especially Alicia. I think she is just being Alicia in here. Of course that is quite magical enough.People who knock this most likely switch on the TV after a dull/hard day and expect to be entertained. It is not a crowd-pleaser type thing. It sort of at least tries to be a psychological thriller, delving into people's psyches, and shows the effect of their actions when their realities are blurred by alcohol. I'd you're waiting for something spectacular to happen, the only high point is early on, Tuesday Knight is really cute, and shows it, but nothing's gonna happen till right at the end, and it's not what you want to see. It sort of guaranteed to be another ****ty night in front of the damned TV set, if you are likely to be of that mentality.I selected it as a DVD because I am an Alicia fan. I have loads of her others. And am under no illusions. She was WONDERFUL in CLUELESS, less so everywhere else. I'm still a fan. She's beautiful. A dream. The movie isn't at all bad. Just don't approach it with unrealistic expectations. Alicia isn't a porn star, for crying out loud!So, give it a chance.But who'd watch it if Alicia wasn't in it? Not me.
Scott LeBrun
Supposedly "steamy" thriller is adapted by director Guy Ferland from the story by Robert Coover. It basically functions as a vehicle for then up and comer Alicia Silverstone, cast as the title character. She's a high school student sitting for middle aged couple Harry and Dolly Tucker (J.T. Walsh and Lee Garlington), who have three kids. She inspires fantasies in not only the lecherous, drunken Harry but her estranged boyfriend Jack (Jeremy London) and his shady associate Mark (Nicky Katt). Even her male charge Jimmy (Ryan Slater, Christians' kid brother) gets in on the act.This should have made for a more watchable experience, but it fails to be all that interesting, whether it follows the activities of the aimless youth or the weary older generation. There are so many fantasy sequences that viewers may feel challenged to keep track of when the film is actually showing "reality". Also, people may feel cheated that Silverstone isn't showcased to sexier effect. Apparently, she wouldn't do this film until the nude scenes were cut. Adding to that problem is the fact that her character (not to mention most of the characters here) just isn't that compelling.This impressive cast certainly has worked with better material. One does feel embarrassed for the late, great Walsh. Garlington has a somewhat meaty role as his wife who is despondent over not being more desirable to her worthless husband. George Segal and Lois Chiles, as their friends throwing the party that they attend, have precious little to do. Too much time is spent with London and the amusingly smarmy Katt as they prowl around the Tucker home, and it takes the film too long to get going.Fans wanting a Silverstone fix would be better off revisiting "Clueless" or even "The Crush".Six out of 10.
dmgreer
The Babysitter reminds me of one time when my daughter was 15, we were walking out to the car in a parking lot, and a young man probably 20 y/o or so drove by, swiveling his head as he passed. I pointed out that he had been looking, and my daughter said "Ewww! He's old!" Teenage girls think their attractiveness is like a bullet, only affecting their intended target, when in fact it's more like a hand grenade, and goes off in all directions.The movie is different from Robert Coover's short story (Google "Robert Coover the babysitter", there's a PDF titled 184 ° Robert Coover), which was mainly a vehicle for an idea about how a story could take different plot lines as characters choose different pathways. It's not really better or worse, because it's apples and oranges.The Babysitter is about The Male Gaze. It's about how males of all ages react to a pretty, nubile young woman who's just trying to babysit some kids, and not completely aware of her affect on males, therefore mostly indifferent to it.Fantasies for each male, from age 10 to age 60, play out during the film, making it difficult to keep track of what's going on in reality. The screen play seems voyeuristic, as if to try to pull you into fantasizing about Silverstone yourself (if you're a male), but time and again her character shuts it down, and reveals just a regular, no-nonsense, non-sexualized person going about her business.In the end the fantasies of three of the characters become reality, and play out as they would in real life instead of a male fantasy land, so things get messy quickly as the three disrupt their own lives within moments. Two males, the youngest and the oldest, escape perplexed but unscathed.The end of the movie is a disaster scene, apparently with a single cause, but in reality the confluence of bad decisions by three men. The last line is like a punch line that sums up the entire proceedings of the evening.
Bianca P
Absolutely one of the WORST movies I've ever watched. Pointless is the word. Utterly pointless. The movie follows one night at the Tucker home where we find Alicia Silverstone's character having a rather uneventful night babysitting two kids: Jimmy and Bitsy. The movie is about... well.... three horny and drunk men having fantasies about having sex with the babysitter. But that's all it is.... FANTASIES! DAYDREAMING! IMAGINING! If only this movie spent more time on actual events rather than imagining alone, maybe it would have had a shot at 2/10 rating. But this junk deserves -0. This movie is listed under "psychological thriller" on Netflix. The only thing 'The Babysitter' did was psychologically bore me and thrillingly annoy me. I want my 90 minutes back.
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