Baby's Day Out
Baby's Day Out
PG | 01 July 1994 (USA)
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Baby Bink couldn't ask for more: he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink's parents—especially the three enterprising kidnappers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnapping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than a little bit smarter than the three bumbling criminals.

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Benedito Dias Rodrigues

Strangely this movie wasn't released in Brazil until now even had been a strong success, aired a lot of times in every TV's channel and also cable TV...the movie come from the famous cartoon Coyote and Road Runner premise, well adapted by Hughes this picture has consistent performance by the baby Bink and power trio of Stooges in a stunning acting by Mantegna, Pantoliano and Haley who are defeated by the baby...amusing all time this movie are drive to all audiences and delivery every inch in laughs,this original plot has to be enhanced....watchable and remarkable movie!!Resume:First watched: 2006 / How many: 3 / Source: Cable TV-DVD-Netflix / Rating: 7.5

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studioAT

A film with a plot like this one was surely going to fail unless it was in the right hands. Then you see that John Hughes is involved and you think it might, just might not be such a disaster.Sadly it is.They can put the baby in as many daft situations as they like, they can use special effects until they're blue in the face, but you can't get around the fact that the farce here is laboured, the situation is daft, and it all ends up being a right mess.This was not one of John Hughes's better films.

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adonis98-743-186503

Baby Bink couldn't ask for more; he has adoring (if somewhat sickly- sweet) parents, he lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby Bink's parents; especially the three enterprising kidnappers who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. Successfully kidnapping Baby Bink, they have a harder time keeping hold of the rascal, who not only keeps one step ahead of them, but seems to be more than a little bit smarter than the three bumbling criminals. Baby's Day out is an underrated masterpiece and i can't believe it that it has such a low score here in IMDb it has some amazing scenes that made me laugh like crazy for example the scene in the Zoo was amazing or even the climax in the building. Joe Mantegna, Brian Haley and Joe Pantoliano are amazing and their basically like Marv and Harry from the first 2 Home Alone Movies i mean the whole plot of the film is like Home Alone 2 but instead of 2 thieves we have 3 and instead of a 10 year-old we have a cute little baby that gives an amazing performance also Lara Flynn Boyle was pretty great too. This film is Nostalgia at it's finest and i'm gonna give it an A+

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Benjamin Cox

I miss the old Tom & Jerry cartoons that the BBC used as Saturday afternoon filler, plugging the gap between the football and various "light entertainment" shows. The priceless combination of slapstick violence and humour made a lasting impression on a lot of people, few more so (I suspect) than the late John Hughes. Feeling like a elongated Baby Hermann adventure, this movie (penned by Hughes) is possibly as close to a cartoon-style caper without the need for animation as we'll ever see. Trouble is, I'm not a kid anymore and this movie needed to provide more than a trio of dumb crooks to muscle its way into my heart.Little baby Bink (Adam & Jacob Worton) has got things pretty cushy. His maid (Cynthia Nixon) looks after him on behalf of his rich parents (Lara Flynn Boyle & Matthew Glave), who live in a big mansion somewhere out of town. But a trio of inept crooks (Joe Mantenega, Brian Haley and Joe Pantoliano) somehow kidnap Bink and hold him for ransom. Sadly for them, Bink escapes and leads them on a wild chase across the city. Surely it's not beyond the abilities of these losers to catch him again, is it? "Baby's Day Out" is not a film for critics, stacked to the rafters as it is with hammy performances, a deeply implausible plot and a strange feeling of deja vu, as if each set piece has been cut-and-pasted from somewhere else. But because the whole thing is so goofy from start to finish, you can't help but fall for its charms. Bink is horribly cute, laughing and gurgling on cue brilliantly well. As for the three stooges, they all perform with plenty of gusto and a knowing wink to the camera as though they know this is just paying the bills. There is also an unusual sense of reality to it, highlighted by the odd fact that almost nobody notices a baby crawling around a building site or a zoo except our little gang of would-be kidnappers. The ending also felt a bit of a let-down, especially when you realised the plot contrivance behind Bink's quest for freedom.It's certainly no classic but "Baby's Day Out" is an oddly enjoyable family film but one that only the really young will enjoy. It's as comic and sophisticated as a custard pie to the face and whether you'll enjoy the movie depends on how much you like this sort of stuff. I like my slapstick - I still get a kick watching Peter Sellers goof around in the "Pink Panther" movies - but I just felt something was missing from this. Think of it this way - imagine if the final, chaotic scenes from "Home Alone" were stretched out for ninety minutes. At what point do you stop finding the same joke funny? "Baby's Day Out" makes the most of its set-up but in truth, there wasn't much to make a whole film out of.

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