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Jack Westphal, Reporter 12/16/2011

We were all kids once. When the parents went out on a then mysterious ‘date night’, they had to call in the baby sitter.

This is what this movie is basically about. In a rough sense. If your baby sitter was a college drop-out with nothing going for him, and was also a little chubby. Jonah Hill stars in The Sitter, where he is forced by his mother to care for three children that see him as another obstacle in what the kids actually want to do. Things get weird when Jonah’s character, Noah, is invited to his girlfriends house, Marisa, for a night of romance. Noah doesn’t turn this opportunity down, and takes the minivan and children along for the ride. They encounter drug dealers in downtown Manhattan, causing their journey to take an uncontrollable turn.

The storyline itself seems stable, but the question is the acting and the roles of the kids. Based on past movies, the kids are going to cause something horrific to happen, but make it up to Jonah by getting him to his girlfriend’s house. Movies do this all the time, the only difference is the actors and the plot.

Jonah Hill is a rising star: he was recently in Moneyball and he now has his own television show, Allen Gregory. Movies like this, with the all too familiar cute ending, make him look like a sellout. He probably is doing this film for the sole purpose of gaining a couple million dollars. But then again, what actor hasn’t done that? This is merely a film that Hill was offered and accepted it because he had nothing else to do.

If you wanted to go see a movie, try something other than this first. This movie earns 2 out of 5 stars, mostly because the storyline is altered only so the viewing audience believes it is different than the other movies, but it is practically the same as the rest of those cheesy, cutesy films that some how continue to garner attention.