Adventures in Babysitting

What makes Jenny and Lola so likable is that they are resilient, brave and fully realized in ways the teenage girls in the nearly three-decade-old original were not.

It’s not the raucous fun of the original, but the message more closely reflects the morals of Disney (which owns Touchstone Pictures, the production company of the first Adventures). But it’s not quite “Disney-ified,” either.

A part of me loves Adventures in Babysitting because it celebrates young women being supportive of each other, and the idea that friendship can blossom between polar opposites. Plus it's nice G-rated fun. In the over-sexualized world we live in, it’s a relief to have the young couples in the movie do little more than smile sweetly at one another. But it’s also a movie that includes stealing as a solution to a big problem, and lying to your utterly oblivious, bordering-on-irresponsible parents.