Review by moviesfilmsreviewsinc

The Sitter is a movie directed by Jonah Hill and starring Jonah Hill as Noah Griffith, a slacker who agrees to babysit his mom's best friend's kids. The kids are Slater, a teenager with anxiety issues, Blithe, a 9-year-old who wants to become a celebutante, and Rodrigo, a destructive force. Noah makes a bad decision when he agrees to score drugs for his selfish girlfriend Marisa, hoping she will finally have sex with him. He takes the kids with him to buy drugs from nutty dealer Karl and his sidekick Julio, leading to a series of misadventures as they try to get home alive. The Sitter is a "one crazy night" comedy in the vein of a 1980s flick, with similarities to Chris Columbus' Adventures in Babysitting and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Risky Business, and Weird Science. Director David Gordon Green and his writers aim to channel John Hughes, but the film ends up being somewhat of a mixed bag. The script is not the cast's fault, but rather the script's. Hill plays Noah as a man-child who doesn't care about anything or anyone other than himself. He has enough emotional maturity to understand why the kids are troubled and can't get out of his own way long enough to take responsibility for his life. The kids are motley and disorderly, with Slater being the most normal, sensitive, and accessible of the three. Bender and Hernandez get the biggest laughs, with the former having a disturbing yet funny department store scene with Hill and the latter's mayhem being the source of most of the trouble that befalls the group. Rockwell gives the drug dealer some personality, while Smoove plays another variation of his high-strung, profane sidekick schtick.

While The Sitter may not live up to its hilarious red band trailers, it's still worth a look for those seeking some vulgar laughs or an '80s throwback.