Baby Geniuses

1999 "Think innocent. Think helpless. Think again. Naps are history."
2.6| 1h37m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 12 March 1999 Released
Producted By: TriStar Pictures
Country: United States of America
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BabyCo is the world's leading manufacturer in baby products. However, what the public doesn't know, is that Drs Kinder and Heep, two of its most brilliant scientists, are tirelessly working in complete secrecy to crack the indecipherable code to 'baby talk': a highly sophisticated language, and the key to the secrets of the universe. Before long, problems arise when mischievous Sly, the smartest of the toddlers, escapes confinement, bent on uniting all babies to free those trapped in the laboratory. Now, Kinder and Heep must find Sly before it is too late.

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Eric Stevenson This is one of the most legendary bad movies ever made. It's become iconic with how terrible it is. The good news is that at least it isn't worse than what most people say. The downside is that that's still very low. There was ONE good joke in this movie about how they make the police come to Babyco and that's IT. This was made by the director of "A Christmas Story" and it just so happens this one takes place around Christmas too. This movie tells the story about these evil scientists who discover that babies have their own language. After awhile, they "cross over" and lose all of their genius. The most insane thing is that there is one scene where a baby is actually able to speak intelligible English as babies apparently know every language out there or somewhere. A main conflict is that they can't talk to their parents, even though they SHOWED that they could speak the same language as adults! Babies are apparently also able to hypnotize adults in their sleep. You have to admit that is completely stupid.In about six minutes, they literally say "Diaper gravy" four times and there is absolutely no variant said at all. This is easily the worst movie for Channel Awesome Month and it's a shame it came out shortly after "The Big Lebowski". That's a better movie to show to your kids and that has over 200 f-bombs in it! There's like six minutes of nothing but babies just jumping around as they are apparently training. There's a baby that wanders onto the road with cars and nobody notices, yet when the baby wears a disguise on the street, somehow everyone notices him. It's hard to even believe this movie even exists, as I couldn't see how anyone would ever find this entertaining. 1/2*
SnoopyStyle Twins Sylvester and Whit have been separated since birth. Sylvester is raised in the lab to be a super baby under Dr. Elena Kinder (Kathleen Turner)'s method. He makes a break for it out of the underground militaristic Babyco lab but he is caught by Dr. Heep (Christopher Lloyd). Meanwhile, Whit was adopted by normal parents Dan (Peter MacNicol) and Robin (Kim Cattrall). Dan is researching baby talk but Robin suspects Kinder of stealing from his work. Lenny (Dom DeLuise) is the bumbling handyman.WOW! That giant baby is incredibly creepy. Testing on babies is as disturbing as it sounds. I'm sure everybody on set knew how stupid and problematic this concept could be. The problem is that nobody figured out how to make it work. In fact, it seems they actively made it worst. Certainly, talking baby has worked in the movies before. This one makes no sense even with the simple movie concept. Tonally, it is both serious and stupid with non of it being funny. The most impressive part is making the kids talk. The CGI baby work is pretty good considering the era and eventually it becomes a thing in commercials. Overall, this is terribly misguided.
Danii Disaster Seriously, it looks like people either really love or really hate this movie. It has an extremely low rating on IMDb (currently 2.5), which, in my opinion, it doesn't deserve.Alright, so it's a dumb movie. But, come on, it's a comedy... for kids! It's not supposed to be serious or realistic. It's supposed to provide entertainment. And it does... to some extent at least. It does have a few funny moment, you have got to admit.Kathleen Turner is miscast, though. She makes a terrible antagonist. Her performance was weak to say the least. Then again, the same can be said about most of the cast.I did find the sex joke between two toddlers amusing, but yeah, it WAS kind of inappropriate, as many reviewers have pointed out already. Not a big deal to me personally, as long as it's funny, and it was.So no, it's not "the worst movie ever made". I thought it was watchable, and, in fact, somewhat entertaining.Then there's those, who have left raving 10 star reviews, saying that this is this movie is "genious"... you guys must be out of your minds.It is nowhere near "good", let alone "genious", but, like I said, it's a dumb comedy for kids, that some adults might find mildly amusing at times. Nothing more, nothing less.
TheBlueHairedLawyer Why on earth did I even watch this thing? Baby Geniuses makes the Justin Bieber movies look good, and it was honestly the most pathetic thing I've ever seen. As if the bad acting and awful soundtrack isn't enough, the plot revolves around scientists who are keeping children captive. What the hell? What is the purpose of this dopey movie? Well, I'll tell you: the purpose is to draw in the "I love cute babies" crowd. You know, pageant moms, new couples, people who will look back and think, "I'm a smart person but I watched this trailer-trash?" It makes me very worried for society to see good ratings on it. I only hope it is left in this website's bottom 100, it deserves to be there.