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Family Favourite

I bought this video when my son was 3 (8 years ago), my kids and I watch it a few times every year. It's so worn that I just bought the DVD. It's our family all-time classic next to the Lion King. The humour reaches both adults and kids (all ages), we laugh like crazy!

A definite recommendation for all...

This movie is the bomb dot com

Great film in my opinion. The gorilla is unbelievably cute. With his dimples, playfulness, and giggle, it is hard to believe why it bombed. I think it deserves major props for being kid-friendly, instead of the hard-core things people are used to seeing. It is great for all- ages, a 10 out of 10, spectacular! I love that gorilla. The gorilla makes me smile and I like to smile because I am sad a lot but this movie seems to change that for me because of the gorilla and his ability to make everyone smile and rainbows and unicorns and I like gorillas and monkeys and gorillas and zoos. I still have to write ten lines so here we go. One more line after this Kassidy.

Very funny and cute!

My kids love that movie. It is also funny for parents, but just hoping our baby doesn't take "day out" as an example for going out themselve. The movie is very entertaining, but only 4 stars because there are some very very overdrawn situations that are so unrealistic it would only work in a cartoon, I mean a Baby crowling on the floor of a crowded shopping center, hotel or wherever would never never be overlooked by the people.

Hilarious!!

This is mostly guy fare because of the humor. It's not a vulgar movie, but I guess most ladies don't find some of these things too funny. But if you're a guy and want to laugh out loud--this is great!!!! I think you might think twice about kidnapping a baby after watching this!

Baby's Day Out

This will mostly appeal to very young children or babies. Adults may be slightly bored or appalled watching a baby crawl out windows, through traffic, on skyscrapers, in a Gorillas cage, et cetera. Add in three bumbling idiot kidnappers that get racked between the legs a lot by falling onto things. That's the type of humor you will find in this John Hughes movie that doesn't hold a torch to "Look Who's Talking". I love most of Hughes movies but I was disappointed in this one. There are a few light moments but overall it is not something I would sit through again. If you enjoyed this catch "Andre" and "Dr. Doolittle".

CA Luster

Love it

HAHA I remember watching this endlessly when I was younger! I truly love this movie; the baby is adorable, the villains are hilarious, the situations are crazy. It's just funny xD

The story is... Baby Bink is to have his picture taken but his mother feels her baby's picture needs to be in the paper so she hires the Downtown Baby Photographers. Of course the three stooges can't resist a ransom opportunity from the rich, rich, rich family so they go to the baby's house in disguise and kidnap the child. The whole thing takes off from there when the guys can't seem to keep an eye on the little baby. Well first we must understand that the baby has a favorite book he calls "Boo Boo" in which a baby goes about in the big city. So the whole movie is Baby Bink acting out the book by going to every spot that the baby in the book goes to. It's a cool movie and it actually looks like the baby is dodging cars on the road, climbing fire escapes of buildings, and being carried high into the air while in a construction site. Oh and I'm IN LOVE with the opening song

Buy this, it's great for the whole family to watch

It's 12 noon, do you know where your baby is?

When baby Bink is kidnapped by three bumbling kidnappers posing as baby photographers, he manages to escape from their hideout and do all the things mentioned in his favorite story book.

Always one step ahead of his would be captives, he leads them through parks, construction sites and an ape house at the zoo. The best part of all is when they finally get their hands on him just as the cops come up to ask about their vehicle. Trying to hide baby Bink under his coat, Eddie gets a little warm downstairs. By the time the cops leave and he is able to remove his coat from his lap, he is on fire. His buddy stomps him out again and again ("THAT is how you put out campfires")

I laughed so hard at this movie I was crying. Not really for children, but a great comedy for teens and adults.

Baby's Day Out

This is a pretty good family comedy film full of cartoon like gags and an okay kind of story from the creators of Home Alone. Basically a little baby has heard a story called Baby's Day Out (hence the title) a lot of times. When baby Bink is kidnapped by three greedy crooks, Eddie, Norby and Veeko he is held hostage. Unfortunately baby Bink escapes and now the three crooks are trying to get the baby in order to get their ransom money. Everywhere the baby goes is something like in his book, he keeps crawling to things that are like in his book. Basically the crooks get all the cartoon like punishment trying to get the baby back. Pretty good!

I hurt myself laughing!!!

This is one of those films that should be watched when ever your feeling really down. I have found it impossible to not laugh and then feel better while watching this film. You can't take this film seriously however. It's as if a Warner Brothers cartoon was brought to life. So, you have to suspend your disbelief and just enjoy Joe Mantegna and his hapless lackies. Joe does a great job with character.
Please, if you watch this film and don't like it; write me, and let me know why you didn't like it. I like to know.

Eddie, Norby, and Veeko Should be Very Quiet Inmates

If I were in the shoes of the three thugs who kidnapped Baby Bink, I wouldn't want anyone to know how I was foiled by a nine-month-old, especially one who helped put me behind bars.
This is a hilariously funny movie about a wealthy couple(Lara Flynn Boyle, Matthew Glave), whose precious baby is kidnapped all because Mrs. Cotwell wanted her son's photo in the newspapers. The thugs disguise themselves as photographers and trick her into leaving them alone with her son. But in the hilarity that follows, Baby Bink proves that he is not so helpless as he leads his captors on a wild goose chase around Chicago.
The whole family can watch this movie together,with great scenes of Chicago, and a wonderfully acted morality tale showcased in one of the best ways possible.-- Through the eyes of a child.

This baby will take you down

The plot Baby Bink parents, he lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper, Then three kidnapper's who pretend to be photographers from the newspaper. kidnapping the Baby.They wish they never did as the baby make the life so much harder, when he get way and they run around the city to find baby and the baby puts kidnappers bad situation(funny ways)I love this movie, from start to end the movie made me laugh, I loved it when Joe Mantegna is trying to protect his private areas from the baby's lighter is one of most funniest scenes ever made.The acting is movie is great If you liked Home Alone, you should give this try.it's a great family movie 9/10

Baby's Day Out? Heartwarming Adventure In!

This is probably the greatest piece of cinema of all time. Not including Space Cowboys. With it's crazy shenanighans and pervasive nudity of baby butt, there isn't anything like it! The only thing that would of made this better is casting Tommy Lee Jones as the baby and Martin Short as the bad guy. Words cannot describe this masterpiece, i wish there was a sequal. When i get the money i'll make the sequal. BABY"S DAY OUT: BACK TO DA CRIB! I reccomend this movie to everybody, including people who loved Monkeybone and Brain Donors! BEST MOVIE EVER! Ryan: Go to the movie Mr. Holt says would be "sacrilegious to watch!"

Perfect example of Cinema Verite

When my good buddy Wingnut(don't ask) raved about this movie, I was, to say the least, suspicious. "How is a movie about a baby who outwits would be kidnappers gonna fit into my rotation of Cambodian porn flicks?"Well, I'm here to tell you...it does. I'm sorry I doubted this movie. It is, without a doubt, one of the funniest "laugh out loud" movies that I have ever seen. I'm not going to try to recap the movie. Others on this site have done a far better job than I could. I thought it was going to be a "baby" version of "Home Alone". But, it's actually closer to "Citizen Kane", with it's subtle majesty on display during each and every frame. The inspired antics of little Baby Bink will tug on the most hardened of heartstrings.Superb performances throughout, especially Joe Pantoliano in the role of a lifetime as Norby. Rudy and I laughed many many times at the bumbling idiots as they tried time and time again to capture Baby Bink, but failed every time! It just never gets old! I've heard that the the best way to experience the rich detail in this tapestry of expert filmmaking is to see it with someone you love...or want to impress. I wholeheartedly second Hckyfn17's enthusiastic exclamation of "Wicked Awesome!" and also musts wonder "Where is the sequel".John Hughes, why hast thou forsaken me?

Did we watch the same movie people?

I think this is a wonderful family movie. It doesnt take itself seriously at all. The score is a pretty big cue IMHO.So it is not Shakespeare? What did you expect? If you want light entertainment with plenty of laughs for all the family then you cannot go past this movie. Granted it is not as good as Home Alone, but it is still most enjoyable.

A Kidnapping Planned by Three Wiley Coyotes

This film never fails to be funny. The plot is simple - a variant on the two McCauley Culkin HOME ALONE films or O'Henry's THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF, except the protagonist is an adorable baby. Three criminals led by Joe Mantegna have been committing fairly successful robberies at convenience stores and even banks. They find that a wealthy family's baby is going to be photographed on a particular day for a magazine, and they arrive at the mansion as the photographers and kidnap the baby. They intend to collect a large ransom. What they don't count on is that the baby, by instinct and sheer chance, is smarter than all three men together. The baby's favorite book has a kind of daily itinerary, and the baby (after accidentally escaping the three idiots) follows it. He is usually only one step ahead of the idiots, so they constantly find him - only to fall on their faces (or worse) while he continues with hardly a scratch. All ends well for the baby at the end.The supporting cast is quite good, in particular Fred Dalton Thomas as the FBI man, John Neville as the household's major domo, Lara Flynn Boyle as the heart-sick mother (the only really unfunny, realistic aspect to the film), and Cynthia Nixon as the nanny. But the chief kudos go to Adam and Jacob Worton as Baby Bink, and Mantegna and his two cohorts Brian Haley and Joe Pantoliano. Of the three men Mantegna is clearly the sharpest, but that does not say much.The clearest comparison of this film is with the Road Runner cartoons of Chuck Jones, with Mantegna, Haley, and Pantoliano trying to use their superior grown-up cleverness to simply recapture Baby Bink. The problem is that their methods are so complicated for themselves that they cannot but fail. They follow the baby into the zoo, and rather than simply scooping the kid up by racing to him, they let him head into the monkey house, and are soon being thrown around by a wise and protective gorilla. The chase the baby into the park, and (incredibly) they do get their hands on him, but two policemen come to them with some questions and Mantegna has to hide the baby under his coat. The baby uses his lighter to set fire to his testicles (and Mantegna has to restrain screaming until the police leave the scene, which is a priceless moment). The script manages to top it - to put out the fire Mantegna's two assistant crooks put it out the way you put out a campfire (they stamp it out!).To me the highpoint is when Baby Bink goes into a construction site. None of the construction workers notice the baby at all, but our three anti-heroes do. They proceed to keep missing the baby and end up falling into cement troughs or into refuse dumps. Mantegna adds the one truest moment out of Wile E. Coyote's fights with Roadrunner. He jumps onto a huge crane's arm, holding onto a battering ball. His intention (as the crane was headed downward) is to have an "elevator" descent by the crane to the ground. Just as he lands on the ball, the face on all the clocks in the construction site hit five o'clock, a whistle blows, and the machines (including the crane) are all turned off at once, and the crews all leave the site. The sequence ends with the sun setting in back of the clinging Mantegna waiting to figure out how to get down.For pure malicious, destructive delight, BABY'S DAY OUT can barely be touched.

Excellence at it's gist.

This movie is worth checking out. Even though it's predictable, the events that happen as this movie unfolds are funny as hell. Especially the part when Eddie has the baby in his lap under his coat and the police are asking him whether or not he has seen any babies today. The baby lights Eddie's lighter - - the rest you'll have to see to believe. I rated this 10 out of 10 stars, and I agree with the first person who said "Drink your bottle of milk and enjoy this predictable film," because that's exactly what you should do. Don't take it seriously or else you'll miss the point.

Decent movie

This movie was not that bad. My kids got it, watched it a few times and thought it was the funniest thing ever. I watched it with them, and it wasn't bad at all. Some of the effects are dopey, but it is extremely funny and kids will love it.

Nimble variation on the "Home Alone" theme...

When all is said and done (and all the laughs have been had), it's easy to come to the conclusion that BABY'S DAY OUT should have been a Walt Disney cartoon. Cartoon-like is the only way to explain the various blows the villains take (or dodge) during their attempts to get their kidnapping scheme to work. Their pratfalls become the stuff of legend once the movie reaches its climactic scene at a construction site where every imaginable pitfall is exposed--but always with Baby Bink emerging unscathed while the villains suffer their comic fate.It's the sort of film that must have looked good on paper, but in executing it there's no way to make any of it believable, at least for adults. Children will probably have a good time laughing at all of the pratfalls and near escapes that the baby has without being trampled on by cars or people.It's amusing enough and works as a comedy of errors. The villains are played skillfully by Joe Mantegna and Joe Pantoliano and the baby is priceless in all of his scene-stealing glory. Everyone else is more like a blank slate whenever the action returns to parental moments.Good for a few laughs, despite all the cartoon-like improbabilities.

Taken in the right context a very funny movie

Unlike a number of the others who have written reviews I really enjoyed this film. I'm not sure everyone realized that they should not take this film seriously. This a farce, a living cartoon. Joe Montegna turned a very good comedic performance. It's good for a lot of laughs

Its better than the stupid rating at least

The movie appeared to be quite popular when it released and compares nicely to the Home Alone series. For the most part of this movie, the concept actually does work. The baby is just an ingrediant of the underlying plot and concept but the villains really make the movie worth watching. I can't really recall if the plot was so very predictable or not but it have some tense moments despite many many flaws.Sure you've probably seen this 'baby' theme is pretty much every cartoon since Tom and Jerry but this is the only movie that implements something similar, but should certainly not be confused as exactly the same. Whatever the critics may barf, this is one movie you would enjoy with your family.