i have see this movie but not in a single sitting . what happen it that it be play on the tv and i watch for a few minute and find that i have take all that i can take and then leave the room . during those few minute i do not laugh once and experience no pleasure in what i be view and and find myself more depressed that angry . interestingly and i be tell the psychological state be incompatible and that be and one can not be angry and depress at the same time . this movie test that theory . i think part of the problem be that i spend nearly ten year in chicago so a i be watch the scene i be thinking of my own experience in that rotten town and thus i be clearly bring a lot of my baggage to the piece . it be entirely possible and i be willing to concede and that if you be not a chicago denizen you will find the piece amusing . if so and i envy you . and yet . john hughes set his film in chicago and those movie work for me . i think the difference be that hughes be a first rate writer . i think it obvious he know how to comically balance his situation and as well a make his character both sympathetic and believable . in a comedy ( a distinguish from a farce ) this balance vital . and it be not easy to achieve . if it be everyone would be make great movie and we would not have to fret a we do in the real world wonder when genius will ever appear . in adventure in babysitting and it doesn not . i hat those character . there be a difference and profound and real and between sympathetic and simply pathetic . for me every scene in this movie be a clunker . there be no humor and no humanity and no people one can recognize . just actor read their line a if it all they can do to restrain themselves from scream them out and certain that finally hilarity will ensue and this time for sure . it like watch the antic of very bad comedian . it embarrass and after a while and usually at the point when i get up and leave and i start to feel pity for all concern and which be a kind of emotional connection and i suppose . elizabeth shue be terrible . she doesn not act and certainly not act comically and and it entirely possible she can not . but lord how she try . she look old than 17 and and act way younger like a seven year old straining in a school play certain that this be how one get an award . and she be not alone . it be a if everyone can not relax and let the tale flow . a if everyone simply have no idea what they be do . now and this be an early effort for chris columbus and he clearly would improve and have good writer ( e. g. john hughes himself ) certainly help and so perhaps some forgiveness be in order . but the film just reek of desperation . yet like i say it may work for some . if any of the above appeal to you and and it clearly do some of the reviewer and then go get the dvd and knock yourself out . otherwise and avoid this mess like you would a dark chicago alley where a you hurry by you can only see shadow and hear mutter threat .