Alicia Silverstone did this the same year as Clueless and the two couldn’t be more
different. This is a very serious kind
of abstract idea for a film. You have
this babysitter ((played by Silverstone) we don’t learn her name until the last
minute of the movie) that everyone fantasizes having sex with. Her boyfriend, the boyfriend’s friend, the
father of the kids the babysitter is looking after and even the boy the
babysitter’s sitting all want to bang her.
It’s a weird idea because this isn’t supposed to be funny at
all. This film tries to pull this shit off
with a straight face. I think this girl
is supposed to be like fifteen or sixteen too which only adds another creepy
layer. And I don’t think it’s that they’re
all in love with her. They all just really
want to fuck her. In fact they want to
hit that ass so badly they commit illegal shit like driving drunk, breaking and
entering, drinking underage, doing drugs, harassment, destruction of private
property, assault, manslaughter, etc.
So everyone’s an asshole except the babysitter. She’s just doing her job and didn’t provoke
any of the shit that unfolds. She has no
idea that all of these dudes are having these fantasies about her either. She’s the only innocent person in all of
this. Ok, maybe you can’t blame the
little boy with his fantasy. He did try
to resolve the situation by calling the cops after all. Alright, so he’s fine. But everyone else has a fucking screw loose.
J.T. Walsh plays a fantastic drunk in this. |
As I alluded to the whole fantasy angle is pushed pretty
hard. At the end the boyfriend says
something like “I don’t know what’s real anymore”. But I didn’t have any trouble knowing what
was supposed to be reality and what was supposed to be a fantasy. The filmmakers didn’t blur that line enough
if that’s what they were going for (I think it was). So as these guys continue to get closer and
closer to their fantasies becoming a reality it never blends or becomes
confusing what’s for real and what isn’t.
They just look like the fucking jerkoff sexual predators that they
really are.
And this could be the real goal of the movie. The filmmakers want you to question
yourself. Did you fantasize about
banging the babysitter too? Was there a
point where you were in someone’s corner other than the babysitter’s? And if you answered yes to these questions are
you just as bad as these guys that attempted to rape this teenager? Well at least the answer for me is no. I thought what the men in the film were doing
was wrong and I could never picture myself in their shoes. Plain and simple.
I don’t get this picture.
What’s the point of it? Is it
against alcohol, premarital sex, all sex, fantasies? I’m pretty sure it’s not against babysitting,
although I don’t know if it’s for it either.
Maybe the movie’s saying if you’re a pretty young girl then every man in
the world wants to fuck you so watch your back?
Another thing I want to ask is who the fuck was this
supposed to appeal to? Who was the
target audience for this thing? Teenage
boys aren’t gonna give a shit, teenage girls are gonna find it way too strange
and most adults would probably find it uncomfortable, and boring, as well. Again, the filmmakers kept reality and
fantasy too segregated so this also doesn’t get marks for being creative or
thought provoking.
The movie didn’t make me question my morality. It was just a bad picture. I could see this working as a frat house
comedy (I’m sure this film already exists too, about how all the frat guys
stumble over each other to see who will be the first to bang this really hot
chick). But better care needed to be
taken with the serious route. Otherwise
you end up with what you have here, a head-scratching-ly odd and poorly
executed movie involving men fantasizing about doing an underage babysitter.
Fun fact: Joel Schumacher produced this. He was doing Batman Forever at the time and would eventually work with Alicia Silverstone
on Batman & Robin. I guess he liked this film?
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