YMMV / Adventures in Babysitting

• Awesome Music: A gravelly-voiced Albert Collins issues the decree of "Nobody leaves this stage without singin' the Blues." And thus, there's a catchy improv, "Babysitter Blues", that demonstrates that Elisabeth Shue has surprisingly good pipes.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Darryl's rape joke is this, knowing his actor Anthony Rapp publicly accused Kevin Spacey of sexual assault in 2017.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In 2020, a mechanic became Thor by being worthy of wielding Mjolnir, something that the mechanic mistaken for Thor in this movie Vincent D'Onofrio found amusing. Not only that, Disney would come to own Thor after buying Marvel. And the film's "Thor" joined Marvel, but as a villain.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Many male viewers gladly went to watch a movie a movie called Adventures in Babysitting thanks to having the lovely Elisabeth Shue being the star.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Bradley Whitford as Mike Todwell, around a decade before he started playing Josh Lyman on The West Wing.
  • Anthony Rapp as Darryl, who would later go on to be the lead of RENT.
  • Vincent D'Onofrio as "Thor" is a subversion, as his Star-Making Role as Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket only happened a month before.
  • Brenda is played by Penelope Ann Miller long before she took roles in movies like Carlito's Way.
  • George Newbern plays Dan Lynch, only a few years before Father of the Bride and a while before he began voicing both Superman in various DC Comics media and Sephiroth of Final Fantasy VII fame in Advent Children onwards.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Admit it, wouldn't it have been fun to see how the gangsters could have done to sing the blues to get out of that club to continue the chase?
• Tough Act to Follow: The remake has a bit of skyscraper to climb, given this movie's status as a classic.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Sara's obsession with Thor is played up as being weird because at the time, he was a relatively obscure character in Marvel's pantheon, best known for a recent Audience-Alienating Era where he was turned into a frog. Of course, the huge popularity bump he got from the Marvel Cinematic Universe will likely have people these days wondering what the big deal is.
  • Brenda attempting to pay by check, rather than instantly rectifying her cash deficiency at any (extant, but far from ubiquitous, at the time) ATM, is another conspicuous example.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Considering that Brenda’s lack of critical thinking by running away from home with no money except for one way cab fare was what started the whole thing, it’s hard to really pity her when she runs into a lot of bad luck plus she dives into Ungrateful Bitch territory when she asks Chris what took her so long after the night Chris has had getting there in the first place.
• Values Dissonance: The use of "homo" as an insult was considered less offensive at the time when the movie came out.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: The title makes the film sound like a film primarily for preteen girls which shocks some viewers when they find out it contains sexual references, some violence including a gang fight on a subway, and coarse language including two F bombs. Though the film IS rated PG-13. This could also explain the title change outside the US.

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