When all is said and done (and all the laughs have been had), it's easy to come to the conclusion that BABY'S DAY OUT should have been a Walt Disney cartoon. Cartoon-like is the only way to explain the various blows the villains take (or dodge) during their attempts to get their kidnapping scheme to work. Their pratfalls become the stuff of legend once the movie reaches its climactic scene at a construction site where every imaginable pitfall is exposed--but always with Baby Bink emerging unscathed while the villains suffer their comic fate.
It's the sort of film that must have looked good on paper, but in executing it there's no way to make any of it believable, at least for adults. Children will probably have a good time laughing at all of the pratfalls and near escapes that the baby has without being trampled on by cars or people.
It's amusing enough and works as a comedy of errors. The villains are played skillfully by Joe Mantegna and Joe Pantoliano and the baby is priceless in all of his scene-stealing glory. Everyone else is more like a blank slate whenever the action returns to parental moments.
Good for a few laughs, despite all the cartoon-like improbabilities.
It's the sort of film that must have looked good on paper, but in executing it there's no way to make any of it believable, at least for adults. Children will probably have a good time laughing at all of the pratfalls and near escapes that the baby has without being trampled on by cars or people.
It's amusing enough and works as a comedy of errors. The villains are played skillfully by Joe Mantegna and Joe Pantoliano and the baby is priceless in all of his scene-stealing glory. Everyone else is more like a blank slate whenever the action returns to parental moments.
Good for a few laughs, despite all the cartoon-like improbabilities.