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Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, Dom DeLuise ... see more see more... , Ruby Dee , Kyle Howard , Leo Fitzgerald , Myles Fitzgerald , Gerry Fitzgerald , Joshua Ryan Evans

Dr. Elena Kinder (Kathleen Turner) is the highly visible chief executive of BABYCO, the world's largest manufacturer of baby products. The company funds orphanages across the world and just opened an ... read more read more...indoor theme park for children adjacent to its corporate headquarters in Los Angeles. Unbeknownst to the public, Kinder, with the help of Dr. Heep (Christopher Lloyd), has been conducting a vast research program devoted to decrypting in secret labs deep beneath BABYCO's corporate campus the language that babies speak. It's said that Tibetans believe all babies are born with complete knowledge of the universe and the ability to speak to each other in an ancient language. However, once infants turn two years old, they lose this knowledge as they bond more closely with adults. To study this theory, Dr. Kinder has culled the smartest babies from her orphanages to be raised in a special development program in her private lab. As a test of developmental progress, she has separated a pair of twins, Sly and Witt. While Sly is raised within the lab, Witt has been adopted by Kinder's niece, Robin Bobbins (Kim Cattrall) and her husband Dan (Peter MacNicol), who run an old-fashioned day care and child research center. Sly manages to escape the center and finds his way to a shopping mall during Christmas. While eluding Kinder's henchmen, Sly stumbles across Witt; Witt is promptly mistaken for Sly and taken away, while Sly goes to the day care center with his new mother. The two boys, who develop an empathic link, must find each other and free the children from the research center before Dr. Kinder can smuggle them out of the country. ~ Ron Wells, Rovi

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PG, 1 hr. 34 min.

Directed by: Bob Clark (III)

Release Date: March 12, 1999

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DVD Release Date: July 27, 1999

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  • fb100002359227440
    May 20, 2011
    fb100002359227440
    Terrible! The worst of could be in the filmography of Bob Clark. A low point in Christopher Lloyd carrer.
  • ythelastman89
    March 17, 2010
    ythelastman89
    Without a doubt, this is one of the worst movies to have ever been made. To see Bob Clark's sanity decline over the years has been tragic to say the least, but this really puts him in a irreparable spot. When you take into account that he started with Black Christmas, this is eve... read moren worse. There is nothing more annoying and overdone than talking babies. This has that and a plot revolving around intelligent talking babies. There is nothing, nothing redeeming about this movie. You can't even bask in the terrible nature of it because it is so alienating and humiliating.
  • fb733768972
    January 14, 2010
    fb733768972
    I think I am the person in the world who may like this more than anyone, because every single person I ask despises this film, but I look at all the good things that could have been changed to make it good! In the end I laughed a few times, but never hated it!
  • stormyweather980
    September 14, 2009
    stormyweather980
    "Baby Geniuses" is one of the biggest disappointments ever. From the previews, I thought "Baby Geniuses" was gonna be hilarious. But I was wrong. Only a couple of parts in the movie even made me grin.
    A relentless scientist (Kathleen Turner) keeps babies in order to do research... read more on them. She wants to make it to where every baby from that point on will be a genius. Trouble arises when her smartest baby, Sly, gets away. Sly has a twin named Whit. Some of Kathleen Turner's employees kidnap Whit because they think it's Sly. Whit's father (Peter MacNicol) must try to understand what his daughter and Sly are trying to tell him in order to get Whit back.

    "Baby Geniuses" was a big disappointment. I was expecting it to be funny and entertaining. You would expect a movie that has talking babies and even a baby that can do karate to be hilarious, but not in this case. The only reason I gave it two stars instead of one is because it halfway kept me entertained. It's not the worst movie ever made, but it's one of the worst of the year. If you want to see a funny movie that features talking babies, I would recommend sticking with the "Look Who's Talking" series. NOTE: That was my Amazon review from the year 2000. Can't believe they actually made a sequel to this terrible clunker...why would they?
  • deano
    August 26, 2007
    deano
    So incoherent, irresponsible "comedy" does the same thing by turning a group of aborable toddlers into a bunch of miniature potty-mouthed adults.
  • purplemegan
    March 2, 2007
    purplemegan
    I know this movie was bad...but it really amused me.
  • shortcartoonist
    January 7, 2007
    shortcartoonist
    An exercise in torture; avoid at all costs. This rivals the pain and cringe factor of the latest torture methods of the recent James Bond film. An exaggeration? If you answered yes to that question, then you haven't been subjected to the travesty that is this film.
  • dreamfaeries
    November 7, 2006
    dreamfaeries
    So funny!
  • Yinali
    August 6, 2007
    Yinali
    Cool movie.
  • 9876a
    June 10, 2007
    9876a
    Who gets paid for ideas like this?

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Critic Reviews

Lael Loewenstein
January 5, 2007
Lael Loewenstein, Variety

A thoroughly misguided, unfunny film. Full Review

Jonathan Rosenbaum
January 5, 2007
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

The hokey dialogue and witless physical gags keep everything painful and hectoring. Full Review

Jeff Millar
July 21, 2005
Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle

If the remainder of this century will bring a lamer film than Baby Geniuses, may I please be in Estonia when it comes. Full Review

Liam Lacey
March 19, 2002
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

The movie is about as endearing as unanesthetized gum surgery. Full Review

Peter Stack
January 1, 2000
Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle

The film has a freak-show quality. Full Review

Janet Maslin
January 1, 2000
Janet Maslin, New York Times

One way to get through Baby Geniuses is to think about whether it really is the worst movie you've ever seen. Probably not, but pretty darn close. Full Review

Paul Tatara
January 1, 2000
Paul Tatara, CNN.com

Story? Who cares. Character development? That's for show-offs. Funny dialogue? Too hard to write. These babies can talk!! Full Review

James Berardinelli
January 1, 2000
James Berardinelli, ReelViews

I'll admit to chuckling a few times during the proceedings, but it's not worth losing 1 1/2 hours of one's life for a few minutes of amusement. Full Review

Roger Ebert
January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Bad films are easy to make, but a film as unpleasant as Baby Geniuses achieves a kind of grandeur. Full Review

Scott G. Mignola
January 2, 2011
Scott G. Mignola, Common Sense Media

A bad sit-com of a movie. Full Review

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