Adventures in Babysitting

[Trekker4747]

So, I was on a bit of a kick this week and got a couple of movies I used to watch as a kid in the 80s and haven't seen in a long time. The other one I got was the titular "Adventures in Babysitting" starring a young, delicious, Elizabeth Shue.'

The movie is about a high-school girl, dumped by her date for evening who takes a babysitting job for a neighbor, while babysitting she gets a call from her friend at a train station in downtown Chicago, she's run away from home but ran out of money on the cab on the way down and wants Chris (Shue) to come pick her up from the suburbs. Chris reluctantly agrees and ends up having to take her charges with her including a young Sara (her main charge, a young girl obsessed with superhero Thor) and the older brother Brad (an underclassman who has a crush on Chris and was originally going to spend that night at a friend's house but decided not to when he found out Chris was coming over) and his friend Darryl.

After a blowout on the expressway into Chicago and a missing spare tire a sequence of events leads the group in one wild night of adventure.

Watched my DVD of this today and really enjoyed the movie, directed by Chris Columbus it has many of the charms and beats he was most known for in the 1980s. Elizabeth Shue is great in it and the movie has some nice funny moments.

 

[Dream]

This doesn't seem like it belongs in the Science Fiction & Fantasy forum...

 

[Trekker4747]

Crap! I thought I was in TV/Media.

:faceplam:

Trekker to Transporter Room, can I get a beam-out here?

 

[Dream]

I was worried you would argue this movie was Fantasy since there was a kid obsessed with Thor in it.

 

[Trekker4747]

I could go that route... But she was absurdly obsessed with Thor, her room was filled with Thor posters and such, she had her own little Thor helmet and Mjolnir and even mistakes a Thor-looking mechanic for being the Norse God of Thunder.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I'd understand that level of commitment after Simonson, but inbetween Walt and Jack Kirby, nothing really worthwhile happened.

I rewatched Parker Lewis recently and I could believe how short Shelley was.

Short and 13.

When I was 13 she was hot.

Now she's just too 13.

Extremely 13.

 

[sojourner]

Adventures in Babysitting is a nice little movie. Definitely inspired by Ferris Bueller in it's style.

 

[Yoda]

So, when I saw this movie I thought Thor was just a parody of a superhero

Comic books are one geeky pursuit that I could never get in to. I didn't realize that Thor was a superhero until they started advertising the movie, and it didn't click with Adventures in Babysitting at all. I just thought they were too cheap to license a real superhero like Superman or something.

And yeah, Elisabeth Shue in the 80s was pretty hot.

 

[Admiral2]

Elizabeth Shue was okay. Doesn't beat my Kelly Preston crush.

My favorite scene of the movie was when they encountered the blond mechanic and the little girl knelt in his presence and dedicated her hammer to his service. (chuckle)

 

[stj]

Wasn't that mechanic played by Vincent D'Onofrio?

 

[MacLeod]

Haven't seen this film in years, but I do somewhat remember it.

 

[Angel4576]

Movies like this are why I love 80s era movies.

They have a charm about them that's long since disappeared unfortunately.

Reminds me, I have this on DVD too, somewhere. Will have to dig it out now.

 

[Brikar99]

I remember this flick being on TV all the time when I was younger... Haven't seen it in ages, though. Maybe I'll rent it and see if I still dig it.

 

[Warp Coil]

I remember loving this movie as a kid. I suspect that re-watching it now, all these years later, it would resonate completely differently for me. I recently watched the first 20-25 minutes of "Ghostbusters" for the first time in years, and while I remember every scene and many lines of dialogue from that film, it comes off as a completely different movie. There is so much that I just didn't understand when I was a little kid, that I only now fully appreciate as an adult.

 

[Trekker4747]

I remember loving this movie as a kid. I suspect that re-watching it now, all these years later, it would resonate completely differently for me. I recently watched the first 20-25 minutes of "Ghostbusters" for the first time in years, and while I remember every scene and many lines of dialogue from that film, it comes off as a completely different movie. There is so much that I just didn't understand when I was a little kid, that I only now fully appreciate as an adult.

Watching AiB as an adult now after not seeing it for so long parts of it come off different to me too, mostly some of the "more adult jokes" and themes in it that were over my head when I was younger. Also when I was kid I was always confused on why we didn't see the truck driver's hand inside the glove box -as he told Darryl that's where it was- when he opens it to get the gun. Obviously now, as an adult, I know the truck driver was just dicking with Darryl when he said he kept the hand in his glovebox.

I just adore Elizabeth Shue's dance to "And Then He Kissed Me" in the opening credits sequence. There's something sort of sexy about her dancing around wearing a long t-shirt/nightgown and in black-stockinged feet/legs. Too bad terrible 80s hair sort of ruins the look.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrecN_dsPc[/yt]

I find the movie still fun and enjoyable and can enjoy it (like I did/do Space Camp) "as a kid."

 

[Ethros]

Wasn't that mechanic played by Vincent D'Onofrio?

Indeed he does.
What's funny is Adventures in Babysitting and Full Metal Jacket were released mere week apart (FMJ on 26 June 87, and AIBS on 1 July 87) and how different does D'Onofrio look in each movie


Love this movie btw. My older sister used to watch it all the time when we were kids, and I'd always watch it with her


"Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues"

 

[Frontier]

Watched it a lot as a kid, remember having a crush on Elisabeth Shue. I didn't put two and two together and realize she was the same one from this movie until her 5th episode of "CSI" lol.

 

[Trekker4747]

"You think?"