"I'm not a real babysitter," Jonah Hill warns one bratty child in the trailer for David Gordon Green's next R-rated comedy, The Sitter. "I'm more of a sit at home on the couch, do what I say or I'll kill you babysitter." Only Hill never gets to bark orders from a reclined position because his crush object (played by the wonderful Ari Graynor) lures him into taking the kids on a "motherf*cking minivan" field trip. And if you know anything about good-bad babysitting adventures, you know that Hill's compliance will lead to a standoff with insane drug dealers. As they all do. Click through to see the legitimately funny, profane red band trailer.
Hurrah! Judging by video evidence alone, it looks like The Sitter will make up for David Gordon Green's last vulgar comedy -- the disappointing medieval dud Your Highness -- by reviving the babysitter adventure genre, this time with Jonah Hill as a foul-mouthed slacker student at the wheel.
Like Elisabeth Shue in Adventures in Babysitting, Hill is watching kids for some extra cash when a simple impulse leads him to pack up his charges. Only instead of wanting to rescue a good girlfriend from a scary situation, Hill's main motivation is to get laid. (Oh, how times have changed.) This wish somehow leads him and his minivan full of minipeople into trouble with drug dealers, weapon-firing kingpins (Sam Rockwell) and Method Man. A modern-day babysitter misadventure with profane dialogue.
Perhaps the only thing more jarring than seeing Hill whisper "I f*cking hate you" to a ten-year-old in a tiara though is seeing the newly-slimmed actor introduce the trailer, which features him in his plumper past form. But we've acknowledged that -- and that the promotional interview tour for this film might be plagued by compare/contrast weight queries -- so we can move on now.
Verdict: "Respect it, don't neglect it." And count us in.
Sadly, you'll have to wait until December 9 to see The Sitter in theaters. Four more months!
[IGN]