Movie review: ‘Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead’ a surprisingly fun remake
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Movie review: ‘Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead’ a surprisingly fun remake
There are enough nods to the first film to please fans looking for those Easter eggs, but they don’t get in the way of the story itself, a teen comedy that keeps it real, despite the heightened circumstances.
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Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead offered a dose of reality in the Nickelodeon '90s
For those old enough to remember it, kids ruled the ’90s. Between our very own “Choice Awards” and a steady stream of slime to shower celebrities with, Nickelodeon, The Disney Channel, and Nerf retailers flooded TV screens with images of independent youngsters with the magical ability to eat McDonald’s whenever they wanted. “Kids rule,” the tagline for 1994’s Camp Nowhere read, and it was an ethos injected into the culture four years earlier with the release of Home Alone. But Steven Herek’s HBO...
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How MTV and Johnny Carson Inadvertently Saved ‘Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead’
We may not have gotten the new remake without a last-minute change