A lot of fun.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

The acting in this movie is really good.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I have seen this movie many times. So much fun. Brillliantly edited.

Picture "Home Alone", subtract the bratty eight year old boy, add a baby, and instead of home, you have a baby wandering the streets from two bumbling rejects. That's Babys Day Out! This 1994 classic comedy fails and succeeds all at the same time. Perfect for little kids, but falls short of any high expectations from anyone with an average IQ. Some scenes stand out, some fall completely flat on the face. ( The gorilla protecting the baby from the crooks was priceless! Funny to the bone!) The story is paper thin, as Babys Day Out relies heavily on the "slip on the banana peel" jokes that will leave half the audience laughing, and the other half saying "this is stupid". Two grown men think they've mastered the ultimate plan: kidnap a rich family's baby for ransom. Unfortunate enough for them, their plan is sabotaged by the child himself, who is leading them through a maze of mousetraps. It's a cat and mouse chase to get the baby back, so that they can get their payday, however, the baby is just too smart for them. The guys just fall into trap after trap, everything from a construction site, to a zoo, and not to mention the baby's own drool as a handy little defense from these bozo creeps from hell. Babys Day Out is highly unbelievable, but entertaining nonetheless. Also, it seems as if the baby's day out isn't random, but following the story according to its favorite book! Fun, fun, fun. It wasn't fun watching the baby facing a few perils, a few very dangerous perils, however, the timing always seems perfect, and the child always comes out harmless. As I said, perfect for children, since the profanity is close to zero, however, it doesn't offer anything new that hasn't been done thousands of times before. Most will ignore it, and watch this with a smile, which I'm sure is what Hughes wanted in the first place.

...make them watch this movie.I was seriously praying for it all to end long before end credits scrolled (...my end or the movie's end. I wasn't choosy at that point).I laughed once. It was a moment of weakness. I'll tell you exactly when it came. After the excruciatingly unfunny (and unnecessarily long) baby-burning-man's-crotch scene there was the actual moment when the fire had to be put out and watching one of the kidnappers vigorously stomp on Joe Mantegna's groin in an enthusiastic attempt to extinguish the flames actually made me chuckle out loud. The happiness was short lived.Eventually, I was fantasizing about someone kicking me vigorously in the gonads to distract me from the rest of the movie. It was seriously that bad.The 'who cares' implausibilities about what was happening to the baby in question was only separated by the melancholy acting of the 'mother' and 'nanny'. I don't know which was worse.Ultimately...torrent it (don't ever pay for this) and keep it on hand in case you have to go all Jack Bauer on your neighborhood Al Qaeda suspect. Otherwise, keep it from your eyes. It will hurt.

John Hughes was a filmmaking icon of the 80's, but his career went downhill in the 90's, when he was still writing and producing but no longer directing after 1991's "Curly Sue". The fact that he wrote this 1994 family comedy adventure was how I discovered it just very recently, nearly seventeen years after it came out. It was made in my childhood, coming into theatres when I was nearly eight years old, but I never heard of it until probably earlier this year. The title and premise of "Baby's Day Out" suggest that the movie is pretty darn cheesy, and they certainly don't lie. While exploring Hughes' work in recent years, I've seen both good and not so good movies from the late filmmaker, and was expecting this to be one of the latter, which it sadly is.Baby Bink Cotwell lives in a mansion with his loving parents, Laraine and Bennington. His favourite bedtime book is "Baby's Day Out", which his Nanny Gilbertine constantly reads to him. He is about to have his picture taken for the newspaper, but three con artists, Eddie, Norby, and Veeko, come to the mansion disguised as newspaper photographers, and when nobody else is looking, they kidnap the baby! They take Bink back to their apartment with them, but trying to control him turns out to be difficult. To try and get him to sleep, Norby reads him the "Baby's Day Out" book, but he ends up being the one who falls asleep instead, and Bink then manages to escape through the window. The kidnappers soon discover that he has escaped and go out to try and catch him. The baby crawls around through the city as the criminals pursue him, but as close as they often get, they can't seem to ever catch up to him! Meanwhile, FBI agents have come to help the Cotwells find their missing infant son.For a while, it looked like nothing here was going to tickle my funny bone at all, and I don't think this changed until the three antagonists get the baby to their apartment. These three characters aren't funny while they pose as photographers, but after this, they sure can be funny as they try to keep the baby under control and then pursue him in the streets. Their conflict is often the reason for this, and without these characters, I might have found "Baby's Day Out" to be one dull movie! However, even these criminal characters aren't always funny (it's still USUALLY straight-faced, even with all the screen time the antagonists have), and lots of unfunny things happen to them during their pursuit of Baby Bink. That doesn't exactly include the crotch-on-fire segment, though I'm not sure what I would have thought of that part as a kid. I guess a movie can have a ridiculous premise and still be entertaining, but I still didn't find the premise here too fascinating. In addition to being mostly unfunny, this is also a predictable film."Home Alone", the 1990 Christmas movie written and produced by John Hughes, turned out to be an amazingly high grossing blockbuster. I saw it for the first time just a couple years ago (though I definitely knew about it long before then), and if you ask me, that film certainly is overrated, but still better than this one. "Baby's Day Out" has a premise a lot like its far more popular predecessor, with a kid rivaling adult criminals who are in pursuit of him, only it's more extreme this time, with the kid being just a baby. I know many would disagree with me on this one, but I think this particular family adventure film doesn't have a lot of merit. It blends in with such other lacklustre 90's Hughes films as "Flubber" and the live action remake of "101 Dalmatians". Now, some people clearly LOVE this movie, and I don't look down on them for that, but I'm not expecting to ever come anywhere near being part of that crowd.