THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB 1995
A film review by Timothy Voon
Copyright 1997 Timothy Voon
2 :-( :-( for annoying, whiny children
Cast: Schuyler Fisk, Rachael Leigh Cook, Larisa Oleynik, Bre Blair, Tricia Joe, Ellen Burstyn, Brooke Adams, Peter Horton Director: Melanie Mayron Producers: Jane Startz and Peter O. Almond Screenplay: Dalene Young based on the books by Ann M. Martin
This movie started out with the same magical feel of childhood, carrying all of the wondrous hopes and dreams of the future. Then it suddenly plummeted into the tedious depths of teenage melodrama, which carries with it the same offensive smell of puked chocolate milkshakes.
So let's describe the gang of BSC's which is feministically female. Kristy the perky leader, is smart and lies to her mother and friends because of some forlorn promise she made to her weak father, SIGH. Mary Anne is Kristy's best friend, she has made a solemn vow not to tell the other's about the secret of Kristy's father, BOO HOO. So everybody starts to hate these two for keeping secrets, TUT TUT. The others are namely the shop-a-hollic, "I'm for NY" Stacey (13) pretending to be (16) so she can impress the "I'm so cute" Lucas (17), THROW UP. Then there's Claudia "the artiste", who can make ornaments from forks, but can't pass science class. If she fails she has to drop out of the BSC, SOB. The other three members, whose names I can't remember, are all pretty inconsequential like most of this movie.
I'm truly saddened at what children read nowadays. What utter BALOO! I guess it could have been worse, but this movie comes close. Where's the BBC (Beat-the-girls Boys Club), they would have made the game of baby-sitting much more interesting.
Comment: No sympathy points for this group of annoying adolescents.
Timothy Voon e-mail: stirling@netlink.com.au
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