Baby’s Day Out (1994)
7/10
Starring
Adam Robert Worton and Jacob
Joseph Worton
Joe Mantegna
Brian Haley
Joe Pantoliano
Directed by Patrick Read Johnson
This was the good old 90s, when
we were not expecting to be blown away by explosions and too much CGI scenes to
get us to laugh. The characters were real and relatable, but the adventures
were unbelievable.
That was the style of the late
John Hughes and through the 80s and 90s he gave us numerous films (Home Alone is one of them) that will
forever be memorable in our hearts.
Baby’s Day Out was one of Hughes
best movies, hone to his style. I watched it enough times growing up and I didn’t
believe watching it again twenty-three years after its release I will still be
laughing my head off at the unrealistic and unbelievable adventure the baby
took us on.
Our adventure in this movie
starts with a mother craving the attention other babies get from having their
pictures in the local newspaper. She decided to hire a popular and expensive picture
taking crew with the hope that their portfolio of getting pictures in the local
paper will work for her baby.
A crew of bandits decided to use
the same opportunity to kidnap a wealthy baby and our mother and her husband
are more than wealthy plus popular to wet their appetite.
They first hijacked the picture
taking crew then went to the rich home and using the mother’s obsession for
perfection to distract her and her helps, they kidnapped baby Bink.
Now they have the baby, but here
was a three men crew where only one was intelligent enough to plot and the
other two were not that bright.
The baby managed to crawl away
from them while one who was supposed to read to the baby to fall asleep, fell
asleep instead and now the crew are chasing a crawling baby as he gets into
malls, bus, taxi, zoo and other places.
What I love about the bandits was
their character, they were not so bright that it was unbelievable that they
manage to survive this long. They were the right amount of dull and smart that you
can swear you have met someone like them either in your work place or in your
group of friends.
The events and the adventure were
set in such a way that you must put away the old-think-tank and just enjoy.
Don’t bother yourself on how the
baby found the old people’s home or how the lady from the bus didn’t notice the
weight change in her bag or the adults that allow a baby crawl away from them
in a filming and cared not. Just watch the movie and be entertained.
Upon its release, it was a
critical and commercial failure for the late John Hughes who had been behind
great movies like Home Alone, Miracle on
34th Street, Curly Sue, 101 Dalmatians, Flubber, Maid in Manhattan
to mention but a few.
The movie however was a hit in Asia
and as the late Robert Egret commented it was even more popular than Star Wars
in Asia during its release. The movie had numerous remakes in different Asian
countries.
In Nigeria where I’m from, the
movie is seen among my pairs as a great comedy. It made us laugh and we all had
our turn watching the movie over again, just to make sure we did not miss a
scene of laughter.
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