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Introduction to the YouTube The Wrong Babysitter Movie Review

 

If you have about an hour and 30 minutes to spare, you may want to check out this free YouTube movie, The Wrong Babysitter. However, on the other hand, if you are not a fan of Lifetime type movies, then you may want to pass. I, for one, am interested in all types of movies, so I decided to watch this movie. Did I enjoy watching it? Check out my movie review of the YouTube film, The Wrong Babysitter to find out.

 

 

Plot of the YouTube The Wrong Babysitter Movie

 

Simply put, this movie is about young girls being kidnapped.  Additionally, a subplot is an unsolved mystery of the wife’s husband after more than two years after his demise. 

 

The story starts with the kidnapping of a young girl who is not the main character in the movie. The main character seems to be a 15 year old girl by the name of Christy Brown played by the actor Ava Hughes. Daphne Zuniga plays the role of her mother, Susan C. Brown.

 

Twists and Turns in the YouTube The Wrong Babysitter Movie

 

Since I’ve watched quite a few kidnapping type Lifetime movies, I did not see any twists or turns in the film. From the start, you, just as I did, will probably be able to identify who is behind the kidnappings. In fact, you may wonder why the mother did not become suspicious of this particular person who always seemed to be prying into her personal business.

 

Humor and Alarming Moments In the YouTube The Wrong Babysitter Movie

 

The director probably meant for this 2017 movie to be a serious one -- but throughout it, I found something that was comical. You may smile a bit when you realize that this movie, even though made in 2017, still uses the image of a detective wearing a trench coat, (think Columbo) albeit a dark blue one, but nonetheless a trench coat -- regardless of how hot the weather was.

 

 

You may think it’s understandable that the mother wants someone to check on her young daughter while she is away -- but the question is how well did she know the neighbor. This neighbor who -- by the way -- had the bad habit of appearing out of nowhere in the woman’s home.

 

Alarming to me was how quickly the mother would just open her front door, without asking who was there.

 

Regarding the kidnappers -- they seemed more comical to me than menacing.

 

 

 

 

Actors’ Skills in the YouTube The Wrong Babysitter Movie

 

I think all the actors did an adequate job performing their roles. As a stand-out actor,  I would choose Daphne Zuniga who played the mother, Susan C. Brown. She really acted and showed concern for her missing daughter in addition to researching and figuring out clues that the daughter left after being kidnapped. In other words, her role was believable to me.

 

Unrealism in the YouTube The Wrong Babysitter Movie

 

There are plenty of unreal type moments in The Wrong Babysitter movie.  Spoiler Alert: The scene that comes to mind was when  the kidnapped daughter was being threatened to be destroyed and she started to cough. One of the kidnappers for some reason seemed concerned and asked the other kidnapper to get the coughing kidnapped victim some water -- even though they were planning to destroy her.  Go figure.

 

Another unrealistic part of the movie was it took over two years for the mother to find or even think about finding notes that her husband left about what was going on in a case he was investigating. I repeat -- it took more than two whole years.

 

There were other unrealistic parts in the movie, but I will stop here.

 

Assessment of the YouTube The Wrong Babysitter Movie

 

I would say that The Wrong Babysitter is an easy movie to watch.  

 

Spoiler Alert. Except for the initial kidnapping of the other young girl, you probably already knew from the sequence of events that the kidnapped daughter was going to be rescued. Therefore the movie was going to have a happy ending -- except for the unsolved case involving the husband.  

 

The greatest downfall of the movie was there was no suspense. The upside was that even though the YouTube The Wrong Babysitter is about a kidnapping, no one was brutally destroyed -- as seen in quite a few movies today.

 

Rating of the YouTube The Wrong Babysitter Movie

 

Based on a rating of  1 star to 5 stars with 5 stars being the highest, I rate the YouTube The Wrong Babysitter movie 3 stars.