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This is a great comedy. It is about the hardships (adventures) a teenaged girl encounters when she drives with the three minors she's babysitting to downtown Chicago to pick up her best friend at the train station. The fast paced adventures or situations they run into keep the plot alive at all times. Really funny.
On the technical side, the DVD is a disaster. Although it is advertized with an aspect ratio of 1.85 it will not trigger (flag) modern TVs into the appropiate aspect ratio. I had to struggle with my 2009 50" plasma Samsung to get a semi-decent viewing aspect ratio. Circles appeared as ovals. Inspecting the DVD control files I found that the material is identified as 4:3. Also, resolution is below par.
It's a pity that such a good comedy wasn't treated better by the studio.
Adventures in Babysitting Overview
Chris Parker (Elisabeth Shue) agrees to babysit after her "dream" date stands her up. Expecting a dull evening, Chris settles down with three kids for a night of TV ... and boredom. But when her frantic friend Brenda calls and pleads to be rescued from the bus station in downtown Chicago, the evening soon explodes into an endless whirl of hair-raising adventures! Babysitter and kids leave their safe suburban surroundings and head for the heart of the big city, never imagining how terrifyingly funny their expedition will become.
5 Stars for this Great Movie - 1 Star for the Letterbox Format - wildcatter -
I bought this DVD in my local department store in May of 2010. It says "Widescreen (1.85:1)" on the back of the package with no indication whatsoever that it is letterboxed. We were so disappointed when we popped this into our hi-def DVD player to watch on our 50" plasma. For so many years we have been watching this movie from a VHS copy we bought on eBay for back when it was out of print. Yes, it is true we don't have to watch these letterboxed movies in postage stamp mode on our big screen by going into the DVD player setup, telling it we have a 4:3 screen and then using the resize button on the TV remote to scale it up to the screen. However, quality is lost. It's not a whole lot better than watching the VHS copy through our upscaling JVC VHS player. I suppose it will only be a short time now before Buena Vista releases a "Collector's" or "Special" edition DVD of this movie with a real widescreen version -- what we thought we were buying this go-around. Selling a letterboxed movie in a package that doesn't say so is unforgiveable. Fortunately for Amazon shoppers, the on-line product description now states "letterboxed". This is a great movie and I heartily recommend it. If letterboxing doesn't bother you then by all means get it. If it does bother you, then rent and wait for the real thing. This review is for the Buena Vista 2000 release ISBN 0-7888-1688-8.
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