tdrish Picture "Home Alone", subtract the bratty eight year old boy, add a baby, and instead of home, you have a baby wandering the streets from two bumbling rejects. That's Babys Day Out! This 1994 classic comedy fails and succeeds all at the same time. Perfect for little kids, but falls short of any high expectations from anyone with an average IQ. Some scenes stand out, some fall completely flat on the face. ( The gorilla protecting the baby from the crooks was priceless! Funny to the bone!) The story is paper thin, as Babys Day Out relies heavily on the "slip on the banana peel" jokes that will leave half the audience laughing, and the other half saying "this is stupid". Two grown men think they've mastered the ultimate plan: kidnap a rich family's baby for ransom. Unfortunate enough for them, their plan is sabotaged by the child himself, who is leading them through a maze of mousetraps. It's a cat and mouse chase to get the baby back, so that they can get their payday, however, the baby is just too smart for them. The guys just fall into trap after trap, everything from a construction site, to a zoo, and not to mention the baby's own drool as a handy little defense from these bozo creeps from hell. Babys Day Out is highly unbelievable, but entertaining nonetheless. Also, it seems as if the baby's day out isn't random, but following the story according to its favorite book! Fun, fun, fun. It wasn't fun watching the baby facing a few perils, a few very dangerous perils, however, the timing always seems perfect, and the child always comes out harmless. As I said, perfect for children, since the profanity is close to zero, however, it doesn't offer anything new that hasn't been done thousands of times before. Most will ignore it, and watch this with a smile, which I'm sure is what Hughes wanted in the first place.
sa8713 I will try not to ruin anything because i highly recommend that each person find this movie and buy it. I used to have it on VHS and my brother and i wore that out so about 5 years ago we found it in a bin at walmart marked $5 and that was just not right, so we saved it. A couple weekends ago he brought his kids over for the weekend and they wanted to watch a movie so i suggested this one. My niece fell asleep but my 4 year old nephew couldn't stop watching. He laughed almost the whole time. There is no better movie then a baby out smarting four grown adults out for some quick cash. The movie itself would hopefully never be plausible but it is good entertainment for the whole family. Just don't make it a nap time movie, most kids will not fall asleep, i learned the hard way.
tavm Watched this John Hughes movie with my mom on Mother's Day. It's about a baby who's kidnapped by dumb thugs played by Joe Pantoliano and Joe Mantegna. It also had Lara Flynn Boyle as the worried mother and Cynthia Nixon as the English nanny. Lots of quite funny stunts permeate the film with perhaps the most outrageous being when Mantegna gets fire on his...well, watch the film. This came a few years after Hughes' Home Alone which I remember highly enjoying when that one came out. Baby's Day Out wasn't as hilarious to me but I had laughed plenty while watching. So on that note, this is recommended for anyone in the mood for an outrageous slapstick comedy. P.S. When Neil Flynn showed up as a cop, I immediately said to Mom, "Hey, it's that guy from 'The Middle'" though I knew him before that as Janitor on "Scrubs".
