(Flash Review)Only the 80's could bunch this many randomly associated scenes together to make an amusing cohesive movie. Shue plays a high school babysitter who sets out for a night of sitting for a little girl and an horny pre- teen boy that has the hots for her. Many awkward moments there. Shue's idiot friend has a major emergency and needs her help in the big city. Shue takes the kids on a trip to help her friend. Overblown 80's-style scenarios happen; many of which are only amusing in the 80's context thus are still charming and amusing. Will she be able to help her friend and get the kids back without raising suspicion? There are many memorable and tense scenes as well as a romantic plot point with a preppy upper class chap.

In the suburbs of Chicago, the seventeen year-old Chris Parker (Elisabeth Shue) is in love with her boyfriend Mike (Bradley Whitford). When Mike stands her up and cancels their dinner in Chicago, Chris accepts to babysit the siblings Sara (Maia Brewton) and Brad (Keith Coogan). But her friend Brenda (Penelope Ann Miller) calls her telling that she decided to run away home but now she has repented; she begs Chris to rescue her from the bus station in downtown Chicago. Chris makes a deal with Sara and Brad and when she is ready to drive to downtown, Brad's friend Daryl (Anthony Rapp) overhears the negotiation and blackmails Chris to go with them. However, when they are on the expressway, Chris has a flat tire and she realizes that she has forgotten her purse in the house. The mechanic Pruitt (John Ford Noonan) stops this tow truck and offers to truck the car to his garage. Chris sees no other option and accepts the offer in the beginning of an unforgettable night of adventures in Chicago."Adventures in Babysitting" is one of those adorable cult-movies for the entire life. I saw this movie in the 80's and since then, it has become one of my top movies ever. There are unforgettable scenes and maybe my favorite is when Albert Collins says that nobody leaves the club without singing a blues. The 25th anniversary Blu-Ray is really a worthwhile shopping. My vote is nine.Title (Brazil): "Uma Noite de Aventuras" ("One Night of Adventures")

When she receives a frantic phone call from her friend who is stuck in downtown Chicago at night, suburban babysitter Chris (Elisabeth Shue) must head to the big city to help. But she can't leave the kids she's babysitting so she brings them along. The night becomes one big crazy experience for Chris and the kids. Classic '80s greatness here. You take a situation that, in reality, might wind up with a bunch of young people on the evening news as rape and/or murder victims and you turn it into an adventurous lark. Love the '80s!This is a highly entertaining movie. The characters are fun and well-written. The dialogue is great. It has the feel of a John Hughes movie. Elisabeth Shue is so good in this. It's impossible not to have a crush on her after watching this film. The kids are all good, with Maia Brewton stealing practically every scene she's in. Her love of Thor was a big kick to me as a kid since I was also a big fan of Thor and all the other kids I knew had no clue who he was. The scene where she meets "Thor" for real is one of the many highlights of this film for me. Just a great movie from a great decade. You should definitely check it out.

No it's not an original, in fact it follows the tradition started with brilliant movies such as After Hours and Into the Night and carried all the way to Date Night of more recent fame. The basic idea is to take an unsuspecting fairly well to do character (gender is almost not important) and whisk him/her/them away from their comfort zone. The general usage of the night is common in this sub genre. Well in this case we've got the very lovely Elisabeth Shue as a babysitter with three younger kids tagging along from the suburbs into the heart of the city's night life.So the starting point is not an original one, and neither is the plot. But Chris Columbus does what he knows best, he speeds up the story and extract every bit of charm his young stars have. And since they do have loads of charm, and Elisabeth Shue rarely looked better , it does work. Most of the characters are very undeveloped not to say shallow and cartoonish but some of those cartoons do work and the whole experience is rather enjoyable even if it's very far from a masterpiece. One big plus - everybody in it knows they're not making a masterpiece being straight forward is a plus in my book. I've seen this movie four or five times (only on TV) and always stayed through, it does say something.