Preview: The Sitter (2011)

Synopsis:

An unemployed laze-about takes on a job as a babysitter. When he receives a booty call, he drags the kids out into the dangerous world around them and ends up in all sorts of trouble.

• Poster: C-

Review:

It's such a gimmick and it's a gimmick that doesn't work. You might think Jonah Hill could sell a movie, but he doesn't have that kind of clout. If he and Russell Brand together couldn't sell Get Him to the Greek, he alone cannot sell this film.

• Trailer: C; C+

Review:

About every predictable cliche is thrown into the first trailer, keeping the audience mildly amused, but not enough to drag them to the theater.

The second trailer is a bit more attention grabbing and may give the film a bit more business, but if the first trailer doesn't make you think of this as Adventures in Babysitting, the second will most certainly...and Hill is no Elisabeth Shue.

Oscar Prospects:

None.

Release Date:

• December 9, 2011

Full Review Synopsis:

I have not seen this film.

-Wesley Lovell (December 4, 2011) Original