The Baby-Sitters Club (1995)

Boring

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

The Baby-sitters Club series defined by childhood reading experience. I loved all of the characters and even got into the spin-off specials and series. As a baby-sitter my self and girly girl, these books were my favorite. I found out that there was a 1995 film years later, as a matter of fact right when I had passed my phase of reading the series. I was in a for a wonderful ride.It was an amazing series to see the characters I grew up with come to life in this film. I got to see the traits I loved and hated about them in a movie setting. The movie draws on so many emotions as it makes you laugh, cry, and feel tender. When I return to this movie as a young woman, it makes me feel so nostalgic and get more out of it than as a child. It explores friendship, family conflict, coming of age, and so much more. I recommend it to anyone who has read the books.

My local public library got the DVD of this movie and I snagged it free for a week. I didn't really know what it was about and, after watching it, came away disappointed that I spent the time. For the younger set, mostly 10 to 13 year old girls, it would probably be fairly entertaining.The only two girl actors in this movie who appear, now 10 years later, to be on a career track are Schuyler Fisk (Sissy's daughter) as Kristy Thomas and Rachael Leigh Cook as Mary Anne Spier, best friends in this story. Fisk was the right age, 12, during filming, but Cook was 15. She could get by with that because she is so small and young-looking.I have become a fan of sorts of Cook, I think she does a credible job in her more recent movies. However in this movie her acting is very "high schoolish." Then, when I looked at her profile, realized this was her very first acting job. She had a lot to learn, and has come along very nicely since then.The only really good character was created by Ellen Burstyn, who was the lady next door, who loved to garden, and ended up with a greenhouse after the summer was over.The movie has a simple premise -- a group of 6 or 7 young teen girls band together to form a baby-sitting club. An adult can call a central number and they book whomever is free that evening. For the summer they decide to form a sort of summer camp for the little kids, they figure they can earn maybe six or 7 thousand dollars. It doesn't quite work out that way, but they do have enough at the end to buy potted plants for the lady next door, and still buy a very large pizza.The movie has the usual cliché' characters, the geeky boys who want the girls' attention, the clueless parents, the mean girls who hang together and plot to mess things up. Directing, camera work, and dialog are all very mediocre.

Okay? Did anyone else find this movie a little sugary? I mean you take these annoying, overachieving PREteens and make them leaders of a camp? Jerry Springer seems less predictable! I hated them all and it's not like they have any real issues. I mean, "OMG! A guy likes me! I like him back but I'll never let on cause I'm a tease!" Seriously, this movie is riddled with cliches,(I mean friends 4-ever, come on!), has a boring, dumb cast, (let's get some diversity people!) and a pointless message. I mean, c'mon, do people really expect that if it's in a colourful package we'll just eat it up? This brings back the idea, MORE SPACE, LESS FILLING. I don't think it should have a cutesy little ending. I also don't think that those snobs would have gone so far! :P

I first seen this movie when I was about 14 or 15, and I loved it. For years I have wanted to see it again. Today I had the chance to watch "The Baby-Sitters Club" once more. Maybe I shouldn't have...The movie essentially follows a group of girls who are all involved in a baby sitting club. As the summer approaches they think of ways to stay together, coming up with the idea of hosting their own summer camp. Over the course of the movie we follow the characters as they deal with the summer camp, an angry neighbor, parents coming back into their life, summer school and love, among other things.I am a big fan of Ellen Burstyn, so it was a joy to see her in this movie. It was also a nice surprise to see a very young looking Marla Sokoloff, who plays Lucy in the television drama "The Practice".The characters that make up the baby-sitters are all really stock characters. The tom-boy, the environmentalist, the creative one, the smart one, etc. The movie also contains yet another stock standard spoiled brat "bad girl", and as always is docked by two "side-kicks", who hardly respect their "master". It's been done so many times, when will people stop writing characters like that? It even happens in Harry Potter! Why can't we have an insight into why this girl acts this way? I know this is "just a children's" movie, but I think you'd be insulting the intelligence of many young people by saying they couldn't handle such writing and depth of character.And the character of Jessi seems serverly under-written. She only has a few lines in the whole film. I get the feeling she was just a stapled on "black character" to add a diversity to the movie. (I haven't read the book series, so sorry if she is in the books.) Which is a huge shame as she seems like a really nice girl. And the opportunity of a racism sub-plot has gone missed, which is another shame, as many young people will probably see this at some point. When a movie starts preaching at least one area you should discuss is racism. Oh well.And the whole relationship story with Luca was really quite pointless. I did, however, enjoy the scenes with Kristy and her father. It added a lot of realism to the story, and I'm sure a lot of kids watching could relate to what was going on up on the screen.The movie has some really poor pacing. And a lot of the dialogue sounds corny. Plus the science rap is just awful. I wanted to be sick!Don't get me wrong, this isn't the worst movie ever made. There are a lot of good things to like about this movie. But the bad out weights them. I might revisit this movie one day down the track. I had expected this to be a guilty pleasure, but it turned out to be a real disappointment. Maybe some memories should just be left. 6/10