The Sitter - Blu Ray Review

The Sitter - Blu Ray Review

Rating: R16
Released by 20th Century Fox Home Ent

Jonah Hill heads back to the comedy stable with this R-rated fodder.

Hill is Noah, a stay at home slacker who ends up babysitting three kids to help his mum out one night. But when he gets a booty call from his on and off girlfriend, he decides to grab the kids and take them out for the night so that he can get his end away.

But that's where the problems start - each of the kids has their issues and the night gets more complicated when Noah ends up getting on the wrong side of Sam Rockwell's dealer, Karl....

The Sitter is formulaic stuff, with its main star seeming like he's simply on auto pilot.

While Hill's watchable enough, the plot is so painstakingly obvious and the humour so transparently easy to spot a mile off, even the writers phoned it in. The child actors are so - so with the youngest girl sporting a potty mouth thanks to rap songs, a foreign kid revelling in all the stereotypes and an uptight kid holding a big secret.

The Sitter is neither clever nor original - while it's mercifully short, it still fails to deliver big belly laughs and even with claims of a totally irresponsible edition (six minutes of extra nothingness), it's not a memorable R rated comedy by any stretch of the imagination.

Extras: Deleted, alternate and extended scenes, gag reel, making of and outtakes.

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