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Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: The Sitter is predicated on a belief that chunky Jonah Hill, or at least the persona he presents, is secretly supercool. While it turns out to be a wisp of a movie, on that front at least, it is persuasive. Read more
David Germain, Associated Press: "The Sitter" really fails in the physical comedy department with an assault of mean, humorless sight gags. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Is it OK to wonder what alien has taken over David Gordon Green's body? Read more
Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: A toxic landfill of a picture filled with pee jokes, poop jokes, fart jokes, sex jokes and drug jokes, all unfunny. Not to mention ethnic stereotypes, gay stereotypes, obnoxious children, loutish adults, car chases and exploding toilets. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: None of the story's squishiness come as a real surprise, though the thinness of the material and Mr. Green's apparent willingness to settle for so little do. Read more
Scott Bowles, USA Today: [A] well-intentioned mess of a comedy so desperate for laughs it crams a half-dozen story arcs into the plot without telling one of them well. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: The precocious naif behind George Washington hasn't disappeared entirely here -- it just takes a little squinting to see him. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: You'll probably be surprised at how much you end up enjoying it. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: As with many R-rated studio comedies, the transgressive humor isn't nearly as offensive as the phony sentiment that's supposed to redeem it. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: I hope Green one day finds a way to bridge the style and rhythm of his early pictures (the ones that didn't make money) and the bumper-car approach of "The Sitter." Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Sit this one out. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: A weirdly charming comedy that puts an irresponsible guy in charge of three unhappy kids. Who'll crumble first? Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A needlessly frenzied, pseudo-raunch comedy that whips up a whole lot of R-rated antics only to arrive at crunchy PG-13 lessons in love and tolerance. Read more
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Jonah Hill bites off more than he can chew in this '80s up-all-night comedy. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: [A] terribly unfunny and overwhelmingly raunchy film that stars the normally likable, or at least comically forgivable, Jonah Hill. He is neither here. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: This odious, hypocritical movie marks director David Gordon Green's transformation into full-on hack. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: If you can get past that rude-awakening opening - and some of the rougher humor - there's a comedy here. And probably the last halfway acceptable one of the year. Read more
Andrew Lapin, NPR: Hill's trademark verbal hyperactivity never truly breaks through a script that's way more complicated than it needs to be. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: [Green] seems to think slowly wiggling the camera, as if it were on a waterbed filled with Jell-O, will up the yuks. And Hill winds up as a junior-version Uncle Buck. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: It's smart, funny, agreeably perverse and simultaneously abrupt and exhausting. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: While The Sitter isn't that dumb, or dreadful, there really isn't much going on here. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: For every laugh offered by The Sitter, there are five minutes of boredom and at least one failed scene of would-be "dramatic" character building. Read more
Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: This is a warped, terribly misguided and often incredibly tasteless film. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I am so very, very tired of movies like this. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Somehow, even in this foul climate, Hill manages to stay likeable, although the strain definitely shows. The same cannot be said of director David Gordon Green. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: The Sitter wants to have its urinal cake and eat it too, pushing the envelope of taste one minute and then delivering maudlin little life lessons the next. Read more
Tom Huddleston, Time Out: A noisy, unfocused, frequently annoying and intermittently offensive slapstick misfire. Read more
Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: It features a script that strains credulity well beyond the breaking point in one situation after another, that the characters are mostly not believable or particularly sympathetic and that the moral ethos of its protagonist borders on sociopathic. Read more
Peter Debruge, Variety: This ostensibly wild-and-crazy romp plays things too close to the book to feel genuinely wild or crazy. Read more
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: Hill plays Noah with just the right amount of self-loathing, deep down convinced of his own merit, not needing to humiliate anyone to prove it. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: [Its] most valuable contribution to the cinematic landscape is its blessedly brief 80-minute running time. Read more