The Sitter: Truly Irresponsible Edition
Following Pineapple Express and Your Highness, it looks like David Gordon Green’s fascination with updating ‘80s movies for modern audiences has come a cropper at last. An update of Adventures in Babysitting, this tiresome new comedy ditches the simple charm of the original in favour of swearing. Hilarious it ain’t.
Fox’s Blu-ray serves up curiously soft AVC 1.85:1 1080p presentations of both 81-minute ‘theatrical’ and 87-minute ‘extended’ cuts of the film. At least the surprisingly lively DTS-HD MA 5.1 mix fares better. The disc doesn't skimp on extras either, offering up ten extended/alternate/deleted scenes, a gag reel, a 15min Making of... featurette, alternate line readings and a spoof piece about actor/
producer Jonah Hill. But don't expect any of them to warrant repeated viewing.
20th Century Fox, All-region BD, £15 Approx, On sale now
HCC VERDICT: 2/5
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