Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

SoTrumpBelieve Must See Movie...

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

SnoopyStyle Kristy Thomas (Schuyler Fisk) is the founding member of The Baby-Sitters Club with her six friends. Stacey McGill (Bre Blair) is a former NYC girl who falls for older boy Luca and has medical issues. Mary Anne Spier (Rachael Leigh Cook) is the quiet best friend. Dawn Schafer (Larisa Oleynik) is a Californian environmentalist. Claudia Kishi (Tricia Joe) is handy. Mallory Pike (Stacy Linn Ramsower) is the writer. Jessi Ramsey (Zelda Harris) is a dancer. With their busy summer babysitting season coming, Kristy decides to keep everybody together by opening a backyard summer camp. The girls face family issues, boy issues, summer school, and an annoyed neighbor about the ruckus.This is a fine tween girls film with a few notable young actresses. Their relationships are appealing although there is too much personal drama going on. It's a bit overstuffed. It should have stayed only with the summer camp more than the personal melodrama. This is good for little girls but unlikely to work outside of its intended target audience.

garden52 I first saw this movie when I was young like 8 after I starting reading the books. I absolutely loved the books and altho I haven't read all of them (i'm still searching for some and i'm trying to get into the newest series in which the BSC breaks up), I can justify that the movie is OK. Kristy(Bre Blair) is the main character. Her father comes to town and doesn't want anyone to know he's there, so Kristy starts lying to her friends and family and it turns into a big mess. The babysitters start a play group and they have to deal with Cokie Mason (from the books) and her evil plots. Stacey meets this boy who is 17. Stacey was always the "fast" one in the books so I wasn't surprised. Claudia has summer school...not surprised. Dawn and Mary Anne are involved. Jessi and Mallory are in it, but not to a huge extent. The movie basically revolves around Kristy. To me, she acts very selfish in the movie. I like it, but it could've been better. Kristy was never my favorite character in the books so I wasn't pleased with her being the star of the show but oh well. I own the movie and I watch it from time to time, but if you haven't seen it and you love the BSC, get it ASAP.

hcalderon1 This movie was made in a little town called Stoneybrook were a group of 13yr. old girls created a club called BabySitters Club. This begins at the end of the school year and the club wants to give the kids a chance plus the club to be able to have fun and stay together all summer. One day while meeting one of the girls come up with an idea that was marvelous and began trying to make things happen that brings more activities for their clients' children. This began well but things started going bad when 2 girls in the neighbor tried to make things hard for them, but the club did what it had to be done not ruin their fun. This club began when the girls were 11 yrs. old, it began as they were all living in the same neighborhood but now they live in different parts of town as have more clients. They ran into one more situation that summer but guess what BSC became more involved with their neighbors since that busy summer. I enjoyed this movie because not is it a great children's movie but also a movie for the whole family. Ann Martin did a great job going from writing books to making a great movie.

Shari ...As a preteen. I was the number one fan of the books by Ann M. Martin. I loved these characters and just the story lines. They were a great for accompanying a young girl as she was growing up. So naturally, when the movie came out, I was more than a little excited. I didn't go to the theaters much when it came out, so when it arrived on VHS, I had to beg my mom to buy it. I loved the movie, but as usual, when you're well acquainted with a book, you feel you know the characters better than the idiots making the movie. I would fire the casting director, because they obviously were just looking to fill the racial roles with no thought as to really getting someone close to the character.For starters, Zelda Harris could not dance the way the character "Jessie" could in the novels. When they first introduced her, I was so pi$$ed off. I connected to Jessie's character a lot with the book because she was the only black in the group (and in the town period apart from her family) and she was the dancer. Jessie was an excellent dancer who always walked from toe to heel. It was a special dancer thing she acquired (even though I didn't and I did the same types of dance she did. an embellishment of Martin's I think), but she was serious about her technique. In the movie, they introduce Zelda with the girl just flinging her leg up into the air with a flexed foot like she has no idea what the move she did was called. I was so embarrassed for her.The girl who played Claudia was obviously older than the rest of the girls. They barely looked the ages of 12 and 13. As I watch it as an older person, I see the youth in their faces, but it was pretty evident that these chicks were more on their way to college than high school. Beyond that, Tricia Joe probably wasn't even Korean, which Claudia was. I assuming the casting director just wanted "Asians". Like that meant anything. And Mary Ann should have had long hair, but I digress. I'm being nit-picky, but I was very invested in these characters for a long time, so I can afford to be and have the right since I have all the freakin books, lol. I understand that when they make a movie out of the books, that it won't be EXACTLY like the book, but at least try to keep certain facets of it similar. A lot of young girls grew up with these characters, and they were the target audience. The least you could do is respect that. All in all, the movie is great for its target audience. It had the necessary forms of trouble that are believable for that age. The story of Kristy's father returning was a very mature touch and I appreciated that about the movie. These girls are at a turning point in their lives where people go to high school and change on people. They also start to deal with real-life issues that will make them do things they never thought they would. I like how the movie dealt with that. That's exactly what happens in the books. They grow apart and we can all relate to that by remembering friends we had in junior high that we didn't have in high school. It was a good story for them to enjoy the time they have before it all falls apart...how dramatic, lol.However, I must say: I think the Disney version that came on TV was much better than the movie and more sympathetic to the novels and the way the characters looked.