Crazy Babysitter

 Crazy Babysitter  (initially titled as  My Babysitter is Nuts! ) is an 2007 American comedy family film directed by James Gunn (in his second feature film) and written by Brad Bird and Gunn. The film stars Jim Carrey as Martin Martell, an babysitter who agrees to babysit two kids under a contract for zaniness to happen all the time. The film also stars Mason Cook, Elle Fanning, Holly Hunter, and Michael Keaton. The film was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

The film was announced in 2004 with Nickelodeon Movies set to produce and Tim Hill set to direct. However, the Nickelodeon Movies version was scrapped three months later and entered development again in early December, with James Gunn signing as director and co-writer. Bill Murray, Tobey Maguire, Eddie Murphy, Rob Riggle, Sam Neill, Eric Idle, and Seth Rogen auditioned for the role of Martin. Gunn casted Carrey as the role of Martin after seeing his performance as the title character in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Crazy Babysitter was theatrically released on January 23, 2007 and received generally positive reviews, praising Carrey’s performance, story, and comedy and was a box-office success, grossing $111 million against a budget of $20,000,00. A sequel titled Crazy Babysitter 2, was released in February of 2010 with Carrey reprising his role.

Plot
Parents Andrius and Katelyn Giovanni announce to their kids Andrew and Jenny that they are going on a plane trip for an business meeting with their boss Mikeel Cassel. Overnight, Andrius and Katelyn calk four babysitters but all of them say no. They call the final one, Martin Martell, who signs a contract with the two parents. The two leave the house overnight while Martin goes in the house.

The next morning, Saturday, the two kids get up from bed and go to the kitchen to see what their parents made for them, only to find a letter on the kitchen fridge reading ”Dear kids, we have gone on a trip to Paris to meet up with our boss. Pancakes are in the microwave for your new babysitter!” Andrew and Jenny question who the new babysitter is and see Martin behind them because of the mirror, causing them to scream. Jenny asks Martin if he is one of his mother’s friends but Martin denies this. Martin goes to the living room and watches TV where he laughs while Andrew and Jenny eat their pancakes.

After eating breakfast, Martin makes the two kids go outside as they have a lot of fun activites planned for the day. Martin goes for a road trip in his car with Andrew and Jenny and goes to a house and sneaks into a four-year old kid’s backyard birthday party. Andrew sees a Nintendo Switch V.4 which he played with all the time until it was eletrocuted when the basement got flooded. Wanting to make Andrew happy, Martin sneaks into the kid’s backyard party as an clown and tries to steal the Nintendo, but is interrupted by an kid who wants the clown to make a puppy balloon. Martin says no but a majority of the kids in the birthday ask him to make a puppy balloon.

Martin, having no experience in making puppy balloons, does this anyway with the help of Andrew and Jenny behind the bushes. He gives the balloon to the birthday boy and everyone cheers for this. The kids, as well as the adults, are too busy cheering that Martin is able to steal the Nintendo Switch and give it to Andrew, which the three of them leave the backyard birthday party. They than return home with Martin has two sandwiches on the table for Andrew and Jenny. The two question how he made it while they were away but Martin repiles: ”I have my ways.”

At nighttime, Martin tucks Andrew into bed while Jenny goes to bed by herself. While they're sleeping, Martin calls their parents and tells them how good they were. The next morning on Sunday, Martin drives Andrew and Jenny to a fast-food restaurant for breakfast instead of pancakes. After that, Martin and the kids play basketball outside but while trying to throw the ball into the hoop, the ball bounces off the hoop and breaks the window but with the backyard door opened, the ball rolls back into the backyard and rolls on Jenny’s feet. Martin doesn’t mind this and suggests that go into a theme park to have fun. They go into a ride at the theme park. Andrew and Jenny scream and Martin laughs while the ride blasts into outer space, making Andrew and Jenny faint.

They soon wake up, with Jenny saying that it was a dream but it wasn’t as Martin has pictures of the entire incident. They than go to knock down bottles with the owner of the game saying that the game isn’t rigged. Martin belives that the games IS rigged and goes to get flannel candy with lots of sugar. Martin goes back to the kids and digests the entire flannel candy, making him very hyper and causing him to throw the ball at the bottles and the ball hits the bottles very hard, causing the entire game to explode. Everything, except for the owner of the game and a teddy bear is destroyed. Shocked and has no words by this, the owner gives the bear to Andrew, but Martin is still very hyper about the flannel candy. Jenny steals a broccoli from a kid, disguises it as candy, and makes Martin eat it, which causes his sugar rush to wear off.

At night, while Jenny is sleeping, Andrew gets up from bed and asks Martin why he’s such as crazy babysitter. Martin tells Andrew this in the sytle of a fairy tale book. As a kid, Martin was always treated unfairly by his babysitter and as an adult, he wanted to be the best babysitter he could ever be. While interested by this, Andrew goes back to bed and dreams about becoming a babysitter in the future. Meanwhile, in Paris, Andrius and Katelyn, the parents, are about to exit the building with their boss but are trapped in by a flood in Paris. They call Martin to remind him this and tells them that they’ll be back home in one more day.

The next morning, on Monday, Martin wakes the kids up, with his happy Monkey machine, even considering that both of the kids do not have alarm clocks. Due to several issues, the kids are late for school which Martin drives them in his car. At 8:30AM, they arrive at the school. At school, Jenny and Andrew have a pop quiz about the reading homework about Cinderella they did last Friday. They both realize that they forgot to do the homework. Martin, realizing he read and watched the Cinderella book and movie, tells the kids notes about the test through signs in a window, once almost getting caught. After school, the both of them ending up getting above 90% on their tests and they thank Martin for it.

The next night, the parents return home while Jenny and Andrew are sleeping. Martin tells the parents that he had fun with both of them and wants to babysit more but Andrius and Katelyn decline Martin's idea as their contract has expired. Martin accepts this and gets paid $20 before he leaves the house. As he leaves the house, he sees the children both sleeping in their rooms. He sadly leaves in his car. The next morning, Andrew and Jenny get up to see their parents back from Paris and Martin gone. The parents both tell them about the whole thing and they get disappointed about it, telling them that he was "fun and energetic". They than get ready for school.

Two days after Martin left, the kids get sadder and sadder each day, missing Martin while Martin also misses them. Jenny than creates a plan with Andrew to get Martin back and they make their own contract, asking their parents where Martin's address is after. They go to Martin's house and have him sign their contract. The next day, Andrius and Katelyn are going out to dinner, which they seek a babysitter. Andrew and Jenny bring Martin back to the house showing the parents their contract. The parents, seeing that they had made a contract theirselves and seeing it would be "breach of contract", they let Martin back as their everyday babysitter, babysitting everyday, which makes them happy