Baby Geniuses (1999)
3 %
Reviews Counted: 40 Fresh: 1 Rotten:39 Average Rating: 2/10
Consensus:
Flat direction and actors who look embarrassed to be onscreen make Baby Geniuses worse than the premise suggests.
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Synopsis: When two doctors (Kathleen Turner and Christopher Lloyd) set out to dominate the world once they discover they can crack the code to a secret baby language, it is only two-year-old Sly and his twin brother Whit who can stop them. When their first attempt fails and Sly gets captured, Whit rallies... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Peter MacNicol, Kim Cattrall, Ruby Dee
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Top Critic
Baby Geniuses' ramshackle plot serves merely as a launching pad for nearly two hours of jokes revolving around the idea of babies who talk and behave like bad stand-up comedians.
01/05/07
The hokey dialogue and witless physical gags keep everything painful and hectoring.
01/05/07
Top Critic
If the remainder of this century will bring a lamer film than Baby Geniuses, may I please be in Estonia when it comes.
07/21/05
Top Critic
Thanks to computers, we have seen some dazzling special effects in films lately, but even the best medicines can have unwanted side effects.
02/08/03
You know, usually I expect the studios to dump all their cinematic turds in January but, man, it's March already and I'm still sitting through this stuff.
12/08/02
Sometimes it truly is shocking to witness how bad a movie can be. (And the sequel is even WORSE! How!?!)
07/26/02
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