The Sitter (2011)
Average Rating: 4.2/10
Reviews Counted: 106
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 83
With its recycled plot, misguided gags, and formula performance from Jonah Hill, The Sitter adds up to another disappointing entry from director David Gordon Green.
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 25
With its recycled plot, misguided gags, and formula performance from Jonah Hill, The Sitter adds up to another disappointing entry from director David Gordon Green.
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When the world's most irresponsible babysitter takes three of the world's worst kids on an unforgettable overnight adventure through the streets of New York City, it's anyone's guess who's going to make it home in one piece. The Sitter is a new level of twisted and debauched hilarity from the director of Pineapple Express, starring Jonah Hill. -- (C) Official Site
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Jonah Hill
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Sam Rockwell
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Ari Graynor
Marisa, Marisa Lewis -
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Landry Bender
Blithe -
Kevin Hernandez
Rodrigo -
J.B. Smoove
Julio, Marisa Lewis -
Method Man
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All Critics (109) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (83) | DVD (8)
A noisy, unfocused, frequently annoying and intermittently offensive slapstick misfire.
Top CriticIt does not care for your soft comedy.
The Sitter wants to have its urinal cake and eat it too, pushing the envelope of taste one minute and then delivering maudlin little life lessons the next.
For every laugh offered by The Sitter, there are five minutes of boredom and at least one failed scene of would-be "dramatic" character building.
The Sitter seems to have a good heart, so why all the glib racism?
Hill plays Noah with just the right amount of self-loathing, deep down convinced of his own merit, not needing to humiliate anyone to prove it.
Anyone expecting The Sitter to be an especially memorable trip to the theater may just want to give their own babysitter the night off and stay home with the kids.
The Sitter is a mess because of a lot of things, but most of the blame should be focused on a lazy script that could have been written in a single afternoon.
An interesting example of the trailer being better than the film, not because it gave away all the good scenes, but because the scenes are only funny in a vacuum.
The Sitter is a pretty funny, absurdist 'worst babysitter ever' story that gives glimpses of serious commentary disguised by dick jokes and the David Gordon Green Pineapple Express & Your Highness ethos - without ever surpassing it's predecessors.
Hill has a natural talent for making any situation funny with his deadpan humor, but in The Sitter it only goes so far.
I'm a child of the 80s, as is Green. So his raunchy homage to Adventures in Babysitting did not go without notice. Unfortunately, it did not go with much laughter either.
A crass, but sweet nod to Uncle Buck, flavored with funny characters, a few sparks of drama, and a few too many cliches.
I don't think I'm too demanding. All I ask for in a comedy is that it be funny. And in "The Sitter," too often gross-outs and foul language substitute for humor.
I'm starting to wonder, truly and sincerely, if [director and former indie wunderkind] David Gordon Green is suffering from one of those brain tumors that radically alters one's personality...
One of those films for brainless nerds which Hollywood insists on churning out.
81 joyless minutes.
Hugely dislikable...
This is yet another David Gordon Green comedy that fails to tap into its dark, noirish potential.
The Sitter is a lazy, write-by-numbers dramatic comedy that even has nauseating time for picking up a foxy lady.
There are a few funny moments, but Gordon makes a mess trying to shake up the formula with too much sauce.
The picture is as laboured as its short-breathed protagonist.
Now is the time, surely, for David Gordon Green to return to the arthouse Terrence Malick persona that first won us over a decade ago.
David Gordon Green's latest beer-soakage comedy contains one, just one, reminder of what made him a hugely promising independent filmmaker a decade ago.
Nowhere near as funny as it ought to be and is badly let down by some dodgy racial stereotyping.
Hill's streetwise-nerd shtick ensures that The Sitter is not without chuckles. They just don't all belong in the same film.
Audience Reviews for The Sitter
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- Rodrigo: I bite off your ear, then you don't hear nothing!
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- Noah: These are not children! They are little people! This woman has children who have children!
- Blithe: Hi, I'm a grandma!
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- Karl: I am now accepting applications for my 8th best friend.
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- Blithe: Lookin' all fly on my way to the club, gonna dance all night, and get fucked up!
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- Noah: What, is there shit on my face?
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- Blithe: The bible is a hot book.
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Foreign Titles
- Bad Sitter (DE)
- El canguro (ES)
