From David Gordon Green, director of Pineapple Express and Your Highness, it wouldn't be too far a leap to say that now smoking weed and making stoner comedies with his friends has taken over his career, and we may never see the return of David Gordon Green, respected director of All The Real Girls and Undertow. That's not to say that his jaunt through comedy is without merit; Pineapple Express was hugely enjoyable and Your Highness had its moments, and now we have The Sitter, bringing him together with a pre-dramatic weight loss Jonah Hill.
There's a line in 2009's ironically titled Funny People where Jonah Hill's character Leo tells his newly slimline friend played by Seth Rogen "you shouldn't have lost all that weight, man. There's nothing funny about a physically fit man". Hill has already proven himself wrong with his starring role in the recent big screen 21 Jump Street remake, so to that end, is The Sitter (filmed before he started his health kick) the end of the chubby Jonah Hill as we know and love him?
Belonging to a particular sub-genre of a sub-genre (the night on the town placed within the movie set in 24 hours), The Sitter provokes the most comparisons with 1987's Adventures in Babysitting, in particular with the gaggle of children the lead character has been put in charge of. A feisty bunch who put Noah's patience and skills as an adult to the test, the prima-donna Blithe, the angst ridden Slater and the pyromaniac Rodrigo (adopted from El Salvador) all get dragged along on a journey through the parts of town no child should be.
Yes, Jonah Hill may be playing an everyman stoner with a lovable personality, but the two potential love interests he has are both impossibly attractive for him. No offense, Jonah, but you're punching above your weight there; pun intended. Plot threads tail off with all the respect for narrative coherence of a stoner sat at a bus stop telling you a story about finding a sandwich; and Max Records' side story about teenage sexual confusion doesn't have anything to do with anything else, walking a fine line between the presumptuous and the insulting.
Verdict
Special Features:
+ Extended cut with 6 minutes of extra footage.
funny movie ! Action packed and drama after another ! I also cant wait to see The Love Guide with Parker Posey in it June 19th ! She is hilarious !
ReplyDeleteI sort of agree. Not that someone who looks like Hill can't get hot chicks. But NOAH can't because he's a douche. Good review.
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