Adventures In Babysitting Remake?

by Dayla, filed in Movies, TV on Apr.30, 2007

So I’m catching Adventures in Babysitting on Oxygen, I’m sure few of you guys frequent this particular channel, and reliving this part of my childhood. I never really liked the little girl when I was a kid because I thought she was bratty but when she’s in her room arguing with her brother who’s pissed cause she used his Clearasil to color yet another picture of her hero Thor I knew I needed her as my avatar with the caption “THOR’S NOT GAY!”.

When I hit up google I came across this that made me vomit in my mouth a little. Just because of the fact that Raven Simone came up in my results unexpectedly.

Brace yourselves.

Curiousity got the best of me and I clicked it to discover that Disney is getting started to put out a remake of Adventures in Babysitting with Raven taking place of Elisabeth Shue’s role (pictured right). My thoughts? Oh, heellll no. I have yet to see this girl be in something where she wasn’t tripping over things that arn’t there, popping off overused and outdated slang and well…being able to act in general. (That’s counting the Cosby show, you bitch.)

Corny seems to be her thing with a laugh track ready in the background. There isn’t anything corny about the original. Within the first 40 minutes you have a couple of kids talking about a chick in the latest issue of Playboy who looks ‘just’ like Chris (said babysitter), a teenage girl who talks about putting Draino in her mom’s coffee, on the road into the city a blowout causes them to take a ride with a tow truck guy with one hand who grabs a gun and drives straight to his house to house to shoot the lover of his cheatin’ wife, and then they jump into a car that’s being hijacked and ending up in a chopshop.

The maybe only thing I could see her doing is when they end up in a black club and have to sing the blues cause they can’t leave the stage they wondered onto till they do. But the only thing that makes the scene funny is the fact that there’s all these suburban white kids being stared down by an audience that obviously weren’t expecting or maybe wanting them there. It really comes off to me that Disney is playing it safe with casting a black girl in the lead due to the mishmash of races all throughout the movie…that is if they’re even going to keep the same storyline. Might be a hard stretch since the city in 1987 is a great deal different from the city in 2007.

But I guess the casting aside my big beef with this is…why does it need to be made? Are all of the stories really gone to where all Disney can do is keep remaking the same mother fucking classic movies over and over? If you agree, write your congressman. Let’s put an end to this crime against classic cinema.

Here’s where I found the info. And my favorite quote from another annoyed reader.

Katelynn Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:05 PM EST
I searched online to find if they were going to REDO the movie, unfortunetly, then i read that THAT SO RAVEN is doing it
i dont want to see a materialistic cow eating french fries…

Okay, I’ve said my peace and feel a little better. Until I hear anything else about this. I’m sure it’ll continually give me ulcers when it hits the theaters.

Tags: Comedy, Disney

http://www.thatsorange.com/ TheOrange

This movie started a lifelong crush for Elizabeth Shue. She looked particularly alluring in The Saint, despite it not being a great film.

ANYWAY, I’m sure a remake would lose all of the original’s charm. I really don’t think a lot of the Hollywood producers these days understand what made those classics so classic. Well, assuming you can call this a classic.

I can’t really think of a similar situation Raven could be in to bring the same sort of hopeless embarassment a bunch of suburban white kids in a blues club evoked…
http://www.thatsorange.com TheOrange

This movie started a lifelong crush for Elizabeth Shue. She looked particularly alluring in The Saint, despite it not being a great film.

ANYWAY, I’m sure a remake would lose all of the original’s charm. I really don’t think a lot of the Hollywood producers these days understand what made those classics so classic. Well, assuming you can call this a classic.

I can’t really think of a similar situation Raven could be in to bring the same sort of hopeless embarassment a bunch of suburban white kids in a blues club evoked…
http://powet.tv/ Zac Shipley

You can’t remake a good or great movie.

You can remake an OK or mediocre movie. I have a fondness for Sinatra and Rat Pack stuff, but I can’t deny the Clooney/Pitt remake of Oceans 11 was better in every way.

Adventures in Babysitting is a good movie. Theres nothing to be gained with a remake even with a great cast, which is unlikely considering the number of principle cast members who are KIDS.
http://powet.tv Zac Shipley

You can’t remake a good or great movie.

You can remake an OK or mediocre movie. I have a fondness for Sinatra and Rat Pack stuff, but I can’t deny the Clooney/Pitt remake of Oceans 11 was better in every way.

Adventures in Babysitting is a good movie. Theres nothing to be gained with a remake even with a great cast, which is unlikely considering the number of principle cast members who are KIDS.
dayla

I think it wouldn’t be so half-hazard if they used a bunch of no-names they could discover were used for their movie. Using her is a ploy. Nobody wants a remake and it isn’t really needed so they’re gonna use one of their names to get the kids to want to see the movie because that fat chick in her show is soooo zany “ROTFLMAO”.

It’s just a little depressing that kids will watch this and still be too young to watch the good version because of all the foul language adults can’t expose their little darlings to. Then you have people who will curse the name even though they’ve never seen the original. Like how I was discussing The Wicker Man with a guy I was dating while perusing the video store. He’s never seen the original which is better by leaps and bounds, but he’ll probably never see the classic despite my references.

Remakes. fuck. things. up.
dayla

I think it wouldn’t be so half-hazard if they used a bunch of no-names they could discover were used for their movie. Using her is a ploy. Nobody wants a remake and it isn’t really needed so they’re gonna use one of their names to get the kids to want to see the movie because that fat chick in her show is soooo zany “ROTFLMAO”.

It’s just a little depressing that kids will watch this and still be too young to watch the good version because of all the foul language adults can’t expose their little darlings to. Then you have people who will curse the name even though they’ve never seen the original. Like how I was discussing The Wicker Man with a guy I was dating while perusing the video store. He’s never seen the original which is better by leaps and bounds, but he’ll probably never see the classic despite my references.

Remakes. fuck. things. up.
Josh

Remakes are almost always terrible, but I agree with Zac: Ocean’s Eleven was a good remake. I still have yet to see the original, but the 2001 version is very well done. Of course, it’s hard to remember how good it is when Soderbergh decided to shit all over it with 12 (and I’m assuming 13).

Remakes are bad enough, but sequels to remakes? Ugh.
Josh

Remakes are almost always terrible, but I agree with Zac: Ocean’s Eleven was a good remake. I still have yet to see the original, but the 2001 version is very well done. Of course, it’s hard to remember how good it is when Soderbergh decided to shit all over it with 12 (and I’m assuming 13).

Remakes are bad enough, but sequels to remakes? Ugh.
http://www.rabbitinasuit.com/ Beck

I remember hearing about this shit-swill back in February, but back then I was hoping it was gonna die by a sharp coathanger in pre-production abortion. Why didn’t they do a new babysitting movie and give it a different premise and title? I bet that’s what it’s gonna turn out to be anyway. I don’t get a lot of these remakes to begin with, but the ones that really remake nothing are so f’in pointless.

And I agree about The Wicker Man. WHY? To get the fans of the original back in the theater so they could find out they paid to be sorely disappointed? It could’ve just been it’s own seperate movie. What did they need the name or the characters for? Nuthin’, that’s what.
http://www.rabbitinasuit.com/ Beck

I remember hearing about this shit-swill back in February, but back then I was hoping it was gonna die by a sharp coathanger in pre-production abortion. Why didn’t they do a new babysitting movie and give it a different premise and title? I bet that’s what it’s gonna turn out to be anyway. I don’t get a lot of these remakes to begin with, but the ones that really remake nothing are so f’in pointless.

And I agree about The Wicker Man. WHY? To get the fans of the original back in the theater so they could find out they paid to be sorely disappointed? It could’ve just been it’s own seperate movie. What did they need the name or the characters for? Nuthin’, that’s what.
onegoodlogan

This news is so Raven.
onegoodlogan

This news is so Raven.
Jayjamboree

I don’t get how people can treat someone with so much hate like that. You basically sound like you are talking about Hitler. Raven most likely won’t be doing a CHILD’s SHOW in the remake, but act more of a different sweet character like the one in the film. Raven was a character in THAT’S SO RAVEN for children, not for adults. And was a perfect example and role model for black girls rather than Ciara or some other girl with nothing on in a BET video. Think about the positives… Let it go.

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