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Sitter, The (15)

Comedy

A comedy about a college student on suspension who is coaxed into babysitting the kids next door, though he is fully unprepared for the wild night ahead of him.


The critical consensus

Casting the passive-aggressive Hill as an irresponsibly bad babysitter ensures a few laughs, and the commendably brief 81-minute running time doesn’t let the plotting sag. But for Hill, so effective as Brad Pitt’s foil in Moneyball, The Sitter feels like treading water.

**(*)(*)(*)Eddie Harrison, The List, 05/01/2012

At 81 mins, The Sitter literally and figuratively falls short, flirting sporadically with real laughs but confining itself largely to bland fish-outof-water gags and romcom clichés.

**(*)(*)(*)Emma Dibdin, Total Film, 06/01/2012

Not Superbad, just quite bad.

**(*)(*)(*)William Thomas, Empire Online, 16/01/2012

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.

**(*)(*)(*)Tim Robey, The Telegraph, 19/01/2012

Hill isn't bad, but he must be getting bored with repeating himself.

Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 20/01/2012

Very light on gags, and then, with an awful inevitability, very heavy on the sentimental life-lessons getting learnt by Noah and his adorable young charges. Avoid.

*(*)(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 19/01/2012

Instead of being tickled, your funnybone will want to commit suicide.

Daily Record, 20/01/2012

Sitter, The (15)

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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