Adventures in Babysitting holds up because it is so remarkably progressive in its depiction of its primary female characters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 24, 2022

In many ways, Babysitting is interesting for what it is not: namely, a John Hughes selfish-teen movie that asks, "Will the girl from the wrong side of the tracks get invited to the prom by the preppie?"

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 26, 2021

Although far from original. "Adventures in Babysitting" is a likable exercise In soft-core juvenile anarchy.

| Jun 26, 2021

John Hughes: Take a lesson.

| Jun 26, 2021

"Adventures" Is undeniably cute without being too cutesy and very likable despite its unoriginal and somewhat frenetic nature.

| Jun 26, 2021

The true villain of the piece is novice writer David Simkins, whose doltish plot and dimensionless characters suggest a failed imitation of youth-movie maestro John Hughes.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Jun 26, 2021

None of it adds up to anything consequential.

| Jun 26, 2021

[A] mildly entertaining little comedy...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 26, 2021

It's one of those movies that, however well it works now, might have been pretty bad with a different cast and director. It doesn't really transcend its genre; it just stretches it in amusing and sometimes surprising ways.

| Jun 26, 2021

''Adventures in Babysitting'' is better than ''Ferris Bueller'' and not as good as ''Risky Business.''

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 26, 2021

olumbus weighs in adequately in his directorial debut, thanks to a fresh, solid lead performance from Elisabeth Shue. Yet the film can never rise above the leaden script.

| Mar 26, 2009

Chris sets off on a rescue mission, and ends up running the gauntlet of big city perils in a belaboured spinning-out of a weak storyline.

| Jun 24, 2006

Mr. Columbus knows how to keep things moving, all right. But neither he nor the screen writer David Simkins, in their efforts to pack every imaginable kind of scene into this humble story, has the faintest idea of where to stop.

| May 20, 2003

Surprisingly sweet and funny!

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2003

A sweet-natured, adolescent variation on the big-city black comedy After Hours.

| Jan 1, 2000

By the end of the film, I'd had a couple of real laughs and a few interesting moments, but that was about all.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000