“The Sitter” is a perfect example of a movie carried entirely by its lead. Jonah Hill shines in this performance, and without him, the film could have turned into an uninteresting train wreck.

One of Hill’s best movies to date is “Superbad,” and his character in this new film is hilariously similar. He has a lot of funny material, but unfortunately the supporting characters aren’t that good.

The pop-culture, obsessed little girl was the only other person in the movie to make me laugh out loud. However, if you ever wondered what it would be like for Hill’s “Superbad” character to have a spinoff where he was a horrible, yet ridiculously funny baby sitter, then I would definitely recommend seeing this film.

The plot follows Hill’s character, Noah, as he embarks on a quest to baby-sit three rambunctious kids for a night. This is something, as Noah humorously puts it, “that no adult male normally does,” and he is less than thrilled when asked to take on the responsibility.

He ends up agreeing to do it so that his single mom can go to a fancy reception with the parents of the three kids. She never gets a night of fun with Noah living at home so he’s basically guilted into it.

Noah immediately lays down the law with each of them, but to little or no effect. All three have a unique and amusing way of getting on his nerves and each one makes his night more difficult then it should. When the girl Noah is trying to hook up with calls and tells him to meet her at a party, an entertaining road trip with the three kids ensues.

A lot of critics didn’t like this movie because it had too much crude humor and situations where little kids were unfit to be.

Well, a lot of reviewers aren’t college students, and I honestly found most of those jokes and situations hysterical. Is it funny to see a 12-year-old in his pajamas hustling some thugs at pool in a bar? In a movie, the answer is yes. In real-life, probably not. There are plenty of scenes like this where if you find it inappropriate, you really shouldn’t be going to see this movie anyway.

There are a lot of laugh-out-loud moments in this movie, but the film gets weighed down by a surprisingly high amount of slow moments.

The filmmakers seem to want to give every main character a sad background or an insightful twist to their individual story, but it’s unnecessary in a movie like this. They could have just kept pumping out the ridiculous situations and witty one-liners, and I wouldn’t have walked out thinking this movie wasn’t deep or layered enough.

I didn’t go see this movie wanting to remember why the little exchange student boy, Rodrigo, didn’t fit in. I went to see it to laugh at the part where the little girl, Blithe, says the Bible is a “hot book” and sprays perfume in Noah’s mouth.

I liked this movie, but I feel it could have been so much better with funnier actors around Jonah Hill. He does a fine job carrying the movie by himself, but he shouldn’t have had to do it alone.

The child actors are fine, but the other adults aren’t really that interesting. I left thinking it was pretty good, but nothing “Superbad” esque.