It was... a nice movie. For kids, yes, but not necessarily only for them. Almost all the characters are kids though, so it's that kind of thing. Well done though. The Grand Guignol was entertaining, I liked him a lot, and the actors were good. Maybe Liz seemed a bit forced, like she tried too much to play the tough girl card, but maybe it's not bad acting, maybe it's the character that tries too much, so it's ok, I accept that.
All in all a nice, well done family movie. I can't really say if I would have found it scary at all as a little child, but certainly not too much. I don't think it is even supposed to be scary, not when the bad guy is so fascinating and brings stuff toys and hot milk to try get the boy to fall asleep.
Details:
Kelly is beautiful and super smart (despite her horrible taste in trousers), but she made the mistake of telling that she was attacked by a monster when she was five, so now at her school they all mock her calling her ‘monster girl’.
A senior is throwing a big Halloween party and she wanted to go but her mom volunteered her to babysit her boss’s son, Jacob.
The boy is really scared of his nightmares, but she convinces him to go to sleep.
His fears come true when a man looking a lot like Beetlejuice, like a lot, but more elegant in his moves, a bit as if dancing, tells the child that all his nightmares will come true or something. When Kelly checks on him, she finds three little monsters are kidnapping the child. The police don’t believe her of course, but a girl arrives on a motorbike, says she’s a babysitter and has a baby strapped to her back. She has a book from generations of babysitters: ‘a babysitter's guide to monster hunting’, and helps her get the child back. At first Kelly needs help herself, though.
They capture a todie, drop off the baby to her mom, then go to the ‘International Order of Babysitters’ , a super secret organisation all other the world.
The bad man wants the boy to sleep at his place so that all his nightmares will become real and be unleashed on the world. This boy has the gift of dreams, like Kelly, which is why he came for her too, but her mom fought him. Kelly now remembers that song, the lullaby he uses to put kids to sleep, and they discover that he’s the Grand Guignol, the Stealer of Dreams, the Bringer of Nightmares.
All the kids there have been attacked by some monster or another, and they now want to stop them from doing it to other kids.
They release the captured toadie after putting a tracker on it, but it finds it and leads them astray after talking to the GG. It leads them to her school party, where Liz tells her Monster Girl is a cool nickname. Liz knows it’s a trap when they’re cornered by a Shadow Monster.
GG meanwhile tries everything to make the boy go to sleep. It's funny really.
Liz and Kelly meet GG while trying to get the Cat Lady’s amulet, a pendant that will finally put the boy to sleep, but he gets it and takes Liz with him.
Kelly escapes the cats and tries to find GG with the info from the Order. She finds him and fights him with Liz and another girl come to bring the Angel Fire or something, and Kelly defeats him.
Then they get the child free and not scared anymore, so the nightmares go away.
They get home safe and he goes to sleep after she promises she’ll babysit him again. His mom runs home after she felt something, a sixth sense maybe when he called out to her while having those nightmares, and since Kelly didn’t reply to her messages she rushed home, but now sees him sleeping like an angel and calms down.
Liz tells her she might get accepted as babysitter in training and gives her the guide to study.
She reads all about the GG’s sister, the spider queen.
Maybe for the next movie where they'll find Liz's brother, taken when they were little? We'll see.
ITA guida per babysitter a caccia di mostri
Kelly- Tamara Smart
Liz- Oona Laurence
Grand Guignol- Tom Felton
Jacob’s mother- Tamsen McDonough
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