Tanya finds her summer plans cancelled when her mum jets off for a last-minute retreat and the elderly babysitter unexpectedly passes away.
Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter is Dead is directed by Wade Allain-Marcus director of French Dirty (2015). The film is also a remake of the 1991 film of the same name.
As someone who didn't really care for the original film, I went into this one not really expecting much and that's kinda of what ended up being the result. Granted it's definitely not as bad as expecting (considering how awful the trailer was), but that really is not saying a whole lot.
Simone Joy Jones gives a fine enough performance here and the rest of the cast have occasional moments of charm throughout the movie, but it's nowhere near enough to really land any memorable performances. I will admit that I do like some of the attempts that Allain-Marcus makes to try and make this version a bit different from the original. There's this modernized lens that has this coming of age story element that could have worked had the writing been a lot better.
Speaking of which the writing is where the movie crumbles, a lot of the humor is a huge miss and despite wanting to be different than the original the movie does follow the original quite identically which leads to the question of why even bother in the first place?
Unfortunately Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter is Dead is one of those remakes that tries to do too much with very little time, there's some decent acting here but that's really all your getting.
Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter is Dead is available on all VOD Platforms.
3/10 D-
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