The film is about a crazy lady and her henchmen who are trying to create super-genius babies in controlled laboratory conditions. At the same time, identical twins are being raised outside the lab in order to determine if Dr. Kinder's (that's a subtle name) teaching methods create significantly smarter babies. But, one of the babies in particular is a lot smarter than the Doctor and her henchmen and spends much of the movie hiding or attacking these folks--in a much-dumbed down version of "Baby's Day Out". And, when the super-genius baby meets up with the identical twins, he mobilizes them into an elite fighting force.
There are several types of bad movies. One are the Ed Wood-style bad movies such as "Manos Hands of Fate", "Eegah!" and "The Beast of Yucca Flats". They are ultra-low budget and can't help but suck. With absolutely nothing going for them, you expect these movies to be terrible and usually they're a lot of fun to watch because they are so ineptly made. The second are movies that are vacuous but have reasonably large budgets, such as the awful "From Justin to Kelly", "Car 54 Where Are You?" and "Disaster Movie". These are occasionally watchable but generally hurt your brain with the stupidity of it all...and they can't blame the budget for the film being that bad! The third type, and "Baby Geniuses" is chief among them is like the second--there is a reasonable budget BUT the films manage to do something normal bad movies don't--they are so annoying, so grating that you want to hurt those responsible for making them (please don't...no matter how tempting it might be)!
"Baby Geniuses" is a terrible film that made me ill just to watch it. About the only film that caused as intense a visceral reaction was Jerry Lewis' "Cracking Up". With respected and semi-respected Hollywood talent in the film, the only thing that might explain their being in this crap-fest is if the film makers had kidnapped loved ones in order to force people like Kathleen Turner and Christopher Lloyd to star in the movie! Why? Because the basic idea is so dumb and so appealing, you can't see how the actors would have agreed to be in the film (as for Peter MacNicol and Dom DeLuise, this IS a story right up their alley and I can see why they appeared in this film). Plus, even if the actors weren't turned off by the story idea, the dialog must have shouted "Suck-Fest" as soon as they saw the scripts! Phrases such as "diaper gravy" (poop) pepper the film in a pathetic attempt at humor. And who could think that the following dialog is funny or remotely appropriate for all audiences?
1st Baby--"Take off your clothes". 2nd Baby--"Well at least you can buy me dinner first".
However, if you think watching toddlers do kung fu, punching adults in the crotch (too many times to count), dancing to disco tunes, or many pop culture references, then this film is for you--as is it's 'hilarious' sequel (yes, there IS a sequel--making me wonder a loving God could allow such a film to be made). Imagine, if you can, "Look Who's Talking", "Baby's Day Out", "The Great Escape" and "102 Dalmatians" all merged into one film and written by particularly stupid and obnoxious 6 year-olds--this is "Baby Geniuses"--and it clearly has earned its place on IMDb's esteemed "Bottom 100"--the 100 lowest rated films of all time.
By the way, although this was far from the worst part of the film, if you saw this pile of diaper gravy, didn't you wonder how it was that the super-super genius baby was able to make all these pop cultural references? How could a kid raised in perfect conditions in the lab know about the Three Stooges, "The Jerry Springer Show" or "Terminator"?!
There are several types of bad movies. One are the Ed Wood-style bad movies such as "Manos Hands of Fate", "Eegah!" and "The Beast of Yucca Flats". They are ultra-low budget and can't help but suck. With absolutely nothing going for them, you expect these movies to be terrible and usually they're a lot of fun to watch because they are so ineptly made. The second are movies that are vacuous but have reasonably large budgets, such as the awful "From Justin to Kelly", "Car 54 Where Are You?" and "Disaster Movie". These are occasionally watchable but generally hurt your brain with the stupidity of it all...and they can't blame the budget for the film being that bad! The third type, and "Baby Geniuses" is chief among them is like the second--there is a reasonable budget BUT the films manage to do something normal bad movies don't--they are so annoying, so grating that you want to hurt those responsible for making them (please don't...no matter how tempting it might be)!
"Baby Geniuses" is a terrible film that made me ill just to watch it. About the only film that caused as intense a visceral reaction was Jerry Lewis' "Cracking Up". With respected and semi-respected Hollywood talent in the film, the only thing that might explain their being in this crap-fest is if the film makers had kidnapped loved ones in order to force people like Kathleen Turner and Christopher Lloyd to star in the movie! Why? Because the basic idea is so dumb and so appealing, you can't see how the actors would have agreed to be in the film (as for Peter MacNicol and Dom DeLuise, this IS a story right up their alley and I can see why they appeared in this film). Plus, even if the actors weren't turned off by the story idea, the dialog must have shouted "Suck-Fest" as soon as they saw the scripts! Phrases such as "diaper gravy" (poop) pepper the film in a pathetic attempt at humor. And who could think that the following dialog is funny or remotely appropriate for all audiences?
1st Baby--"Take off your clothes". 2nd Baby--"Well at least you can buy me dinner first".
However, if you think watching toddlers do kung fu, punching adults in the crotch (too many times to count), dancing to disco tunes, or many pop culture references, then this film is for you--as is it's 'hilarious' sequel (yes, there IS a sequel--making me wonder a loving God could allow such a film to be made). Imagine, if you can, "Look Who's Talking", "Baby's Day Out", "The Great Escape" and "102 Dalmatians" all merged into one film and written by particularly stupid and obnoxious 6 year-olds--this is "Baby Geniuses"--and it clearly has earned its place on IMDb's esteemed "Bottom 100"--the 100 lowest rated films of all time.
By the way, although this was far from the worst part of the film, if you saw this pile of diaper gravy, didn't you wonder how it was that the super-super genius baby was able to make all these pop cultural references? How could a kid raised in perfect conditions in the lab know about the Three Stooges, "The Jerry Springer Show" or "Terminator"?!