Baby Geniuses (1999)

Fantastic!

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

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.

This movie is a bad one. The whole premise of the movie works a little bit better than I thought it would, but it is still a really dumb premise. So sly has enough physical dexterity to judo throw a grown man, do back-hand springs, and swing on ropes, but he does not have mastery over his own bowels? I know they're supposed to be advanced, but being a genius doesn't mean you're physically gifted in any way. I tried to imagine myself as a child when it came to the jokes, but they still were not funny. The mall scene is where this movie really starts to fall apart. The parents mix up their children at the mall but the two twins were wearing different outfits. Yes, I know that the mother acknowledges this but what are the chances that they would be dressed so similarly out of coincidence? I could have been generous and given this movie a 2,but I decided not to do that. The rest of it wasn't any worse than the Mario Brothers movie I wouldn't say, but one scene lead me to this conclusion. There is a scene in the mall where Sly hops inside of a baby carriage and a joke ABOUT SEX occurs between two babies. I know they're supposed to be "advanced" or whatever but that is completely and utterly awful. I feel like a should get a medal for sitting through this entire movie.

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.

This very movie is probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my whole life! In fact, this movie made me dumber and dumber with each minute I had watched! And now, I have an hour and a half of my life that I can never get back! And why, you may ask? Because of this foul smelling, vomit inducing, putrid chunk of diaper gravy!! The only good thing about this movie was when the end credits popped up! Sure, there was good actors like Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, and even Dom faffing Deluise; but I wouldn't have guessed that the director of this movie, Bob Clark, had directed The Christmas Story. What would drive oneself to make such a horrible movie? Bob Clark should've realised that the general plot was too dumb to make it as a whole movie and scrap the entire project! That way, he wouldn't have made Baby Geniuses 2 (which was the last movie he ever made), and Baby Geniuses 3 (which I think was made by Jon Voight). I would rate this a zero out of ten, but this rating system only goes as low as one. All I can say is stay away from this movie at all costs!!