The Sitter is the new David Gordon Green comedy starring Jonah Hill that is generating a lot of buzz for its red band trailer. And make no mistake it is definitely NSFW unless work is a strip club (again, I don’t judge) or you have headphones. You can see it below, along with the green band version. That’s the version I saw at a theater a couple of weeks ago and was mildly amused. You decide which is better.

Director David Gordon Green is responsible for the brilliant, quirky little indies like George Washington and All the Real Girls. He took a serious turn in Snow Angels, a drama about a teenager, his old baby sitter, her estranged husband, and their daughter, and what happens at the intersection of those lives,with Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale and which I absolutely loved. Then Hollywood got a hold of him and his next films were Pineapple Express and Your Highness. If you haven’t seen what came before those last two, you might not be as puzzled as I am. They certainly have their supporters, but frankly, I didn’t find either of them all that funny. (I don’t “get” the appeal of Danny McBride for one and Paul Schneider was missing from both of them for another.) He’s also got 14 other titles in development so he must be doing something right.

The Sitter is about a college student (Jonah Hill) on suspension who needs a job and is coaxed into babysitting the kids next door, though he is fully unprepared for the wild night ahead of him. Sounds kind of like Adventures in Babysitting for the new millennium, no? Of course it will be a lot more funny if the babysitter is a guy this time. Equal opportunity and all that. Personally, I only laughed out loud when the little girl sprayed perfume in Hill’s mouth…twice.

The Sitter stars Hill along with Sam Rockwell, Ari Graynor (who were both wonderful in Conviction, which I finally saw), Jessica Hecht, D. W. Moffett, J. B. Smoove and Method Man and will open December 9. Kind of like an early Christmas present.

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