YMMV / Baby's Day Out

• Audience-Alienating Premise: A major reason the film performed badly was that the premise of a baby wandering around dangerous environments works fine in a cartoon, but becomes genuinely worrisome in live-action, especially to parents. The director even said that in test screenings, this was the single biggest complaint, and even got angry letters over the premise after release.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
  • While the movie was a flop in America, it was HUGELY popular in South Asia, especially in India and Pakistan, to the point that it even had four localized remakes: Sisindri in 1995, Ek Phool Teen Kante in 1997, James Bond (no, not THAT James Bond) in 1999, and Onna Babo in 2002. Furthermore, the largest theater in Kolkata played the film for over a year straight.
  • It's also hugely popular in Indonesia, to the point where it's considered an essential Christmas movie, with one local television airing it every Christmas morning becoming an occurrence.
  • While not as popular there as in Asia, it also did solid business in the UK, and went on to do quite well in VHS rentals there. It helped that the UK release of The Lion King, which had completely demolished this film stateside, was held over until much later in the year, meaning that the only real competition in the family film stakes that summer was from the live-action version of The Flintstones.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The gorilla scene might be a bit more difficult to watch after the Harambe incident in 2016.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Bink's dad, after a quick reminder from his wife, gives his son a long goodbye before he goes to work, complete with stroking his cheek, making funny faces, and pinching his nose to make his voice sound silly.
  • The scene where the police search for Bink in a single mother's apartment, and the mother is very gracious. Bink's mother examines the baby in the crib, realizes it's not hers, and says that the other mother has a beautiful child. The other mother forgives the police for the intrusion because, as a parent herself, she understands their fear and need to find their son. She tells Bink's father, who apologizes for the misunderstanding, that she believes in an angel that watches over babies and that someone is watching out for his son.
  • Bink's mother comforting Gilbertine, Bink's nanny, telling her that her feelings about Bink matter as much as her own, perhaps even more.
  • When Bink is reunited with his parents.
• Jerkass Woobie: The kidnappers but Eddie especially, being the bossy grumpy leader as well as the one suffers the most abuse.
• Karmic Overkill: The crooks are supposed to be loathed for being child kidnappers. Yet after everything they got through and all the injures they suffer you can't help but pity them a little. The fact that, while being criminals, they don't seem to be exactly pure evil helps a lot.
• One-Scene Wonder: The gorilla scene is the most memorable part of the movie outside the climax.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Neil Flynn, aka the Janitor, Mike Heck, and the Waterworker, is one of the cops questioning the trio.
  • Cynthia Nixon, aka Miranda Hobbes, is Bink's nanny Gilbertine.
• Signature Scene: The scene where the kidnappers try to steal Bink back from the gorilla tends to be the one most people remember, as it features some of the best comedic moments in the movie and with the right amount of suspense. Even The Nostalgia Critic, who otherwise disliked the film, admits that this was the one part he enjoyed for its pacing and comedic timing.
• Spiritual Successor:
  • This film probably has more in common with the first two Home Alone films than Home Alone 3 did.
  • It can also be seen as a spiritual successor to The Three Stooges.
• Tear Jerker: Any of the scenes with Bink's parents after he is kidnapped. While Bink's little adventures are all Played for Laughs, their grief and sadness are not. Especially the scene where Bink's mother looks at the newspaper and laments that she wanted Bink to be in the paper, but he is as a reported missing child.
• This Is Your Premise on Drugs: When watching the scene where Bink's father is saying goodbye to him in silly voices, The Nostalgia Critic says that's what happens when the Cocomelon channel gets drunk.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The gorilla is played by a man in a suit, but it looks very realistic and convincing, as expected from Rick Baker.

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