Christina Reviews *Adventures in Babysitting*

          This is one of those movies that would probably get two stars from a “respectable” critic, but from me, it gets five stars. 
          The plotline is as follows.  After being stood up by her boyfriend on her anniversary, Chris (Elisabeth Shue) gets stuck babysitting Sara Anderson.  Sara’s brother Brad is supposed to be spending the night with his best friend Darryl, but Brad and Darryl have a crush on Chris, and when they find out she’s babysitting, they decide they’re going to stay at his house after all.  But then Chris gets a phone call from her best friend Brenda who’s stuck in a train station with no money and no way home.  Chris agrees to pick up her friend, but since Sara balks at the idea of her brother babysitting her while the real babysitter is gone, Chris is forced to take the kids with her.  And this is when the nightmare in hell begins.  On the way to pick up Brenda, they get a flat tire, and it all goes downhill from there.
          Adventures in Babysitting has got some of the funniest scenes I’ve ever seen in a movie of its kind.  It’s kind of like Ferris Bueller for babysitters.  It’s hardly a classic, but I see it more as a cult favorite that will probably most appeal to those who remember it from their youth.   I would still recommend it to everyone and everybody.  I will warn you though, the “f” word makes a couple of appearances in the movie.  In the TV version, the word was changed to “fool”.  As in, “Don’t fool with the babysitter”.