Wonderful character development!

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

My only knowledge of "The Baby-Sitters Club" book series was that I used to see it in the Scholastic ads when I was a kid. I have no idea how faithful this movie is to the books. I gotta admit I found myself mocking a lot of this movie, as it is definitely made from corn. But I remind myself that I am not part of the demographic this was made for and try to be fair. If you can suppress your grown-up cynicism for awhile, it's actually pretty cute. The girls are all fun to watch and seem to enjoy being in the movie. Marla Sokoloff is a great little villainess. Rachel Leigh Cook would go on to be the most famous of any of the Club girls. She's "all that" here, too.Some of the girls have little subplots. One girl has boy problems with the kid from Last Action Hero. The lead girl has daddy issues due to her absentee father showing back up. Another girl has diabetes and talks about it like it's leprosy and she's deathly afraid of telling her new Swiss boyfriend about it. He's a dork, by the way. But my favorite is the girl who is worried about flunking summer school and whines about it every chance she gets. Her friends reassure her that they will help her study and everything will be fine. This leads to the movie's highlight, a hilarious scene where the girls perform the most epic rap song ever to help her. It has to be seen to be believed.I found myself liking this movie more as it went on. It's easy to dismiss it as fluff, and I guess it is, but it's enjoyable fluff. The actors, young and old, are decent. The direction is a little flat and the whole thing kind of looks like a made-for-TV movie but I liked it anyway. I think little kids might like it most or perhaps people who grew up in the '90s and are nostalgic about it.

OK, I miss this one. Actually, a lot. I don't know why, but I've been thinking about it like crazy lately. I think it's the season, because I'm sure I got this movie on, or very close to my birthday. I miss the simplicity of it, and how good it made me feel. This was another one that went bye-bye at the garage sale. But, that's OK. Maybe, just maybe, I'll buy it. It'll be good for when I teach, especially if girls dominate the class. I loved this movie. Granted, the story was a little, eh. The acting was OK. I don't know how accurate it was to the book series, as I've never read any that I can remember. I love it. Why did I let it get sold?

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.

I just finished watching BSC with my 9yo daughter, and I am embarrassed -- not only for my own mistake, but also for all the other parents who let their children sit through this hideous movie.Was this screenplay written by a sixth grader? The plot, and every subplot, was contrived and almost overbearingly saccharin. The acting was flat, and character development was undynamic. Reading the other reviews here I see many excuses being made on behalf of BSC, but being labeled a "kid's movie" is no excuse for an underdeveloped production and A STARRING CAST WHO CANNOT ACT.It's as if a group of preteens at cheer camp wrote and directed a feature-length skit for an audience of much younger children, and then somebody from Hollywood filmed it and passed around copies. The teen drama! The teen angst! The teen issues! One girl says, "I think hummingbirds are magical." Puh-lease!In the movie, the members of the BSC don't sneeze without holding a codependent meeting about it, yet somehow without Claudia's knowledge all of the other girls manage to choreograph an entire rap video to help her pass her biology final. I also cringe at the absolute stupidity of the subplot in which 17yo Luca takes 13yo Stacey to NYC, unchaperoned, and later gives her an open-mouth kiss. Stacey: "Next summer I'll be 14." Luca: "I know (and I'll be 18 -- will you write to me in prison?)" From a real-life father, dealing with the real-world issues of raising a young girl against a strong current of inappropriate media messages and marketing campaigns: "No way in hell."This is a kid's movie? Do the people behind the making of this movie have children of their own? What's with all the immodestly, impractically short skirts and thigh-high nylons being worn by the preteen/teen characters? (Did I already ask if this is a kid's movie?)The only redeeming performances: Ellen Burstyn as the botanically-minded neighbor, Brooke Adams and Bruce Davison playing Kristy's parents, and Peter Horton as her birth-father. With regards to the rest of the budding talent, they all gave tranquilizing performances. Ultimately, the "Moviemakers Club" that put this whole bad message together is a bunch of socially irresponsible idiots.I've never read the BSC books and maybe they're just great. But in evaluating this movie on its own merits, I feel sad for the people who have fond memories of this movie from their childhood. I can only hope that, when she's older, my daughter won't even remember having watched it...