Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

I was highly excited to see this movie since the original from 1991 is a favorite. This movie is just not funny. It tries too hard. The unoriginal concept to this was a huge let down. I really tried to enjoy this but I couldn't. The movie is a huge letdown to anyone thinking this might be a funny modern version of the original.

The problem I have with this movie is it's trying to culturally change the original story. The kids were acting too grown. The attitudes these characters displayed were bothering. This movie really paints a bad picture on the original. Even though they call it re-imagined, it just seemed like a hot pile of garbage. I really wanted to rate it 2-stars, but I couldn't. I was giving this the benefit of the doubt too many times and should have just turned it off. I painfully let it play until the end.

I suggest the kids in Hollywood get off TikTok and start reading some books because there is ZERO creativity these days.

This is yet another remake of a classic comedy that they ruined with complete incompetence.

It doesn't have any of the sharp humor of the original and they rely on shaded racism for some (non)-laughs.

Hard to believe but the story line is about 5 times more boring than the original. And whomever directed this really needs to get an Uber job because it sucks.

And that brings us to the "acting." There is none. These are basically waiters and waitresses who somehow got a leg up and were put into this fiasco.

It's not worth your time. And shame on them for making it.

This is literally the most painful thing i had to sit through, which im only sitting through to see the OG's appearances. The references and how things worked out DO NOT FIT IN WITH THIS MOVIE'S REALITY! How are they going to explain the CREDIT CARD STATMENT??? The original movie DEALT IN CASH, you could make up the receipts as we saw them doing in 1991.

A behavioral retreat? Leaving five children under the age of 17 BACK IN THE STATES? No. Even with a babysitter what the heck??? No, just no. None of this makes sense. The only thing enjoyable is the house. Too short for crap too short for crap...

It was ok. Passed the time.

But I can't get past the fact that these kids in 2024 weren't clued up enough to even consider that the babysitter was someone relative and check that before they dumped her body. Even the kid that was compassionate to crows! Thats easy to do these days and I think kids of today would be that thoughtful, if they're good kids, like these were. So the fact they just dumped her, even if she was a cranky old lady made me not care much for the kids at all.

But also the filling her with alcohol and driving her in to a tree, might have worked; however when she was pulled from the water there would be no water in her lungs and an investigation would begin. So not quite an open shut case.... Which would be fine, if they didn't end it with a news story trying to wrap it up neatly.

Just seems like they could have done better. This story worked in the 90's, not so much in 2024. That's on the writers.

Came across this movie on a list of remakes in 2024. I didn't make it half way through the movie. Just so bad.

Read a summary of the end and I was glad I skipped it.

The remake wasn't needed at all. It falls in line with a long list of updated remakes that just fall flat.

Nothing of substance was added by remaking a cult classic.

The problems and issues from the original don't translate well in an updated movie.

Acting wasn't great. The movie felt like a launching pad kinda a movie that had too many failures to launch.

Having Danelle Harris make a cameo was a nice call back to the original.