Siskel & Ebert (TV Series)

Blown Away/Little Big League/I Love Trouble/The Shadow/Baby's Day Out/Wyatt Earp (1994)

Gene Siskel: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Gene Siskel - Host : [reviewing "Baby's Day Out"]  I really admired the consistency of tone and art direction of this picture a lot. The old-fashioned look kept me involved as much as anything, and I have a suspicion that little kids will really eat up the fantasy of the baby getting in trouble but not getting in trouble. After "The Lion King", I think "Baby's Day Out" is your kid's, little kid's, next best choice.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Well this is fascinating, Gene, because you've just defended this film on exactly the same grounds...

  Gene Siskel - Host : No I haven't.

  Roger Ebert - Host : ...That I used for "The Shadow". You liked the art direction, you liked the look, you liked the old-fashioned...

  Gene Siskel - Host : And other things.

  Roger Ebert - Host : ...Feel, you liked the tone.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Oh no no no...

  Roger Ebert - Host : Well, I hated this movie more than any other movie on the show, and I'm really surprised at you. You should be ashamed of yourself.

  Gene Siskel - Host : What? For not agreeing with you? I've never been ashamed of that, I've been proud of that.

  Roger Ebert - Host : Okay, well, in that case, uh, here's another star for your lapel: This movie is not funny, it's way too long, the burglars who are recycled right out of "Home Alone"...

  Gene Siskel - Host : "Home Alone", yeah.

  Roger Ebert - Host : ...Are really awkwardly written and awkwardly played, and they're not funny at all. And the fact- of course, this whole movie is obviously inspired by Baby Herman, the sequence at the beginning of, uh, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, it's funny in a cartoon because it's not real. If you think that a real baby, crawling through traffic...

  Gene Siskel - Host : Yeah.

  Roger Ebert - Host : ...And crawling out- look, you're already smiling. You think that's funny. I didn't think it was funny.

  Gene Siskel - Host : I thought it was an absolute, perfect child's eye view of the fantasies that they might have. And little kids, this is where I think you're off by a lot, little kids will really have their hearts in their throats as they watch this thing, and will be absolutely tickled by the way the baby survives...

  Roger Ebert - Host : I don't think it's a movie that's appropriate for little kids.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Oh yeah, too hard for them to handle, right?

  Roger Ebert - Host : When I was three and a half years old, I went to see a movie where Mickey Rooney was standing on a ledge outside a window, it was a comedy, everybody was laughing, I was terrified. I think a little child, who sees this baby about to fall off of tall buildings and be crushed by big cars isn't gonna know it's funny.

  Gene Siskel - Host : Oh, y'know, I better go back and find out who attended that sneak preview I saw. All those children are in dear jeopardy of becoming...

  Roger Ebert - Host : We attended...

  Gene Siskel - Host : ...Roger Ebert!

  Roger Ebert - Host : ...The same screening, and those kids were NOT with that movie.

  Gene Siskel - Host : We didn't attend it. I saw it in Michigan City, Indiana, last Saturday, so you were wrong.