[Rating:2.5/5]

As is the trend with Jonah Hill and his movies, he plays the lovable loser who is way over his head. In his most recent installment, The Sitter, he plays Noah, a guy still living at home and not going to college, who is incredibly selfish and lazy. He decides to do a good deed and go babysit his mom’s friends’ kids so she can go out and have a good time for once. Things quickly start to spiral out of control once a girl he likes, Marrissa, calls and says that she wants him to come to a party with her. The only way he can go though, is if he takes the children he is babysitting.

Typically, the kids are crazy and very unrealistic personality wise and they do crazy things like blow up public restrooms for no reason. The Sitter is an odd movie, in the sense that it doesn’t really fit into a sub-genre of comedy movies. It’s not too raunchy and not too hilarious. During some areas of the movie it seems almost dull and pointless, then will pick back up with a couple of funny scenes, then will just die right back down with an act of pure nonsense.

For some reason, the funniest part to me was the soundtrack. It was basically all gangster rap from the mid-nineties which seems out of place when you’re watching a minivan travel through the streets of New York. The people who would enjoy this movie the most in my opinion are 12 and 13-year-old kids who think any movie that says bad words is funny, and middle-aged people that don’t normally go and see these kinds of movies. All in all, I think that it would be worth your while to see this film. Also, this is the last movie you will ever get to see a full-sized Hill, because of his incredible weight loss. Recently Hill seems to have lost 50 percent of his body weight, also, he lost 50 percent of his funniness. So enjoy it while it lasts.

by Adam Mateos