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Summary: All A Movie Should Have!
Review: "Adventures in Babysitting" mixes humour, horror and action together in this amazing, live-action "babysitting" flick!There is so much to love about this movie. One is the opening scene where Chris Parker (Elisabeth Shue) is dancing to the goldie "And Then He Kissed Me." Two is the humour. You'll be blue in the face when it is done from laughing so much. The Anderson children and their friend Daryl are the funniest if you want my opinion. Oh...There is so much to list. When Chris Parker's (Elisabeth Shue) boyfriend, Mike Todwell, cancels their anniversary date to a french restaurant, Chris is asked to watch the Anderson children while their parents go out. Over at the Andersons' home, Chris's best friend, Brenda, calls and tells Chris she has run away to the city of Chicago and needs a ride home. So now Chris takes the children into the city, be-friended by their neighbour, Daryl, to come across very exciting adventure. * * * * *! I also would recommend these films: POLTERGEIST I, II, III (* * * * *) - ALEX KINGSTON/MOLL FLANDERS (* * * 1/2) - THE MATRIX (* * * * 1/2). All excellent films. Thanks and enjoy.
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Summary: All A Movie Should Have!
Review: "Adventures in Babysitting" mixes humour, horror and action together in this amazing, live-action "babysitting" flick! There is so much to love about this movie. One is the opening scene where Chris Parker (Elisabeth Shue) is dancing to the goldie "And Then He Kissed Me." Two is the humour. You'll be blue in the face when it is done from laughing so much. The Anderson children and their friend Daryl are the funniest if you want my opinion. Oh...There is so much to list. When Chris Parker's (Elisabeth Shue) boyfriend, Mike Todwell, cancels their anniversary date to a french restaurant, Chris is asked to watch the Anderson children while their parents go out. Over at the Andersons' home, Chris's best friend, Brenda, calls and tells Chris she has run away to the city of Chicago and needs a ride home. So now Chris takes the children into the city, be-friended by their neighbour, Daryl, to come across very exciting adventure. * * * * *! I also would recommend these films: POLTERGEIST I, II, III (* * * * *) - ALEX KINGSTON/MOLL FLANDERS (* * * 1/2) - THE MATRIX (* * * * 1/2). All excellent films. Thanks and enjoy.
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Summary: Fun Flick from the 1980s.
Review: 1987 was one of the better years of my life. I was ten years old and the world was my oyster. I went to a couple of different camps that year and for the first time began to see how big the world really was. 1987 was also the year ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING came out. The movie stars Elisabeth Shue, back when she still played good, clean, fun parts and was the directorial debut for Chris Colombus (the guy behind HOME ALONE, MRS. DOUBTFIRE, and those HARRY POTTER movies). The movie is about a babysitter who gets an unexpected call to babysit right after her boyfriend postpones their anniversary dinner. She agrees, but just after the parents leave, her best friend calls from the bus station downtown in Chicago. The best friend has run away from home and is in a bit of trouble. So, unable to leave the kids alone and unable to abandon her best friend to the perverts she has encountered, she loads up the station wagon (station wagon, the classic 80s family vehicle) and heads to the city.But a tire goes flat on the expressway and chaos begins: jealous husbands, car thieves, gang wars, mob bosses, and rowdy college parties. All in a night's work. The film is charming because even though it pokes fun of the suburbanites of Chicagoland, it does so without being harsh, while at the same time uplifting the good and finer (though few) points about living in the suburbs. A friend of mine loves this movie solely because of that. Overall, the movie is fun and is worth seeing because it jumpstarted Shue's career and was Colombus's first feature.
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Summary: The most fun movie ever made
Review: Adventures in Babysitting inspired me to become a screenwriter and entertainment journalist. Elisabeth Shue has a great role and she's funny! This movie is an adrenaline rush of a good time. More movies should be made like this--this should have won Best Picture of 1987. Move over icy Citizen Kane--this movie is amazing!
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Summary: Watching "Adventures In Babysitting" is a adventure itself.
Review: Adventures In Babysitting is a Blast. I first saw this movie when I was 10 years old, now I am 24 and after all these years I can still say I really love this movie. Elisabeth Shue gives a great performance in her first leading role, along with the rest of the cast who together seem to bring this movie to life. The movie starts off with Chris singing a classic oldie called "And Than He Kissed Me" and from the minute you hear the song you know your in for a treat with this movie. After getting the cold shoulder from her boyfriend, Chris decides to babysitt and have a quiet night, but when her best friend Brenda calls her to rescue her downtown, Chris decides to take the three kids along with her. Expecting a dull evening she soon finds that the night is anything but dull. The night soon turns in to an endless adventure that will have all of them hanging from the rafters. I will not give away any of the movie, but I will say this is one of those rare movies you can watch over and over and never get tired of it. I highly suggest you check out this great movie! This is one to own on DVD.
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Summary: WHEN THE SHUE FITS
Review: ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING is a wonderfully entertaining film from the late eighties that still resonates almost 20 years later. Chris Columbus (the future director of the first two Harry Potter films) brings us a series of vignettes resulting in Elizabeth Shue's Chris Parker babysitting for the precious Maia Brewton and the mooneyed Keith Coogan. Shue is marvelous; Coogan and Anthony Rapp are delightful; and little Maia is appropriately cute and loveable. Penelope Ann Miller as the nearsighted Brenda is a riot...especially when she picks up a stray "cat" at the bus station.
Of course, the primo scene is the "nobody leaves till you sing the blues" with Albert Collins. Shue's transformation as she gets into the "Babysitter Blues" is priceless.
This is one feel good movie, and in spite of some of its profanity, a film everyone should enjoy.
It's a minor classic to me!!!
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Summary: WHEN THE SHUE FITS
Review: ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING is a wonderfully entertaining film from the late eighties that still resonates almost 20 years later. Chris Columbus (the future director of the first two Harry Potter films) brings us a series of vignettes resulting in Elizabeth Shue's Chris Parker babysitting for the precious Maia Brewton and the mooneyed Keith Coogan. Shue is marvelous; Coogan and Anthony Rapp are delightful; and little Maia is appropriately cute and loveable. Penelope Ann Miller as the nearsighted Brenda is a riot...especially when she picks up a stray "cat" at the bus station.
Of course, the primo scene is the "nobody leaves till you sing the blues" with Albert Collins. Shue's transformation as she gets into the "Babysitter Blues" is priceless.
This is one feel good movie, and in spite of some of its profanity, a film everyone should enjoy.
It's a minor classic to me!!!
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Summary: Nobody leaves this Place Without Singing the Blues....
Review: and you won't be after seeing this movie! This is a spectacular movie built on humor and real-life issues. Who will ever forget 'Get Outta My House!' or 'I just saw a bald chinese lady with no pants on!'? This is a movie to bond over and I have with many people. See it!
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Summary: A quality "Teen movie" we all can relate to.
Review: Are you hanging around the house with nothing to do then get this movie. Imagine a teen movie without the "Blood & Guts" and "hormone sex scenes" but a real light story that will keep your attention and make you laugh. In addition Liz Shue will keep the boys interested.
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Summary: A MOVIE TO REMEMBER :)
Review: As a kid growing up in the 80's I was blessed to have the most obnoxious and lame movies to be ever produced, stories that went in the way of the unnexpected and funny turn outs. This movie Aventures in Babysitting was one of those. How do you explain such a clever done movie, with classical scenes, like the HOOK, or the hanging in the BUILDING, or singin' the BLUES, or even the geeky girlfriend without the glasses, and well she only wanted a hot dog, but the check was not good. This is going to be a funny movie that will always bring me back to my childhood. Amazing...hey an who knew Shue will portrait such serious parts after... *****FIVE STARS.
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