Customer Reviews

Baby Geniuses [VHS]

5 star:		(13)
4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(7)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(25)

 

 

There is so much wrong with this movie. For one thing, the babies' mouths DO NOT, and I repeat, DO NOT move in sync with what they are saying. A couple of times, the adult actors' voices do not go with what they are saying, either. This was a major annoyance in the movie. It would not have been so bad if they just had the babies do their actions and have voice-overs without their lips moving (like Homeward Bound, a 5-star movie). But no, the movie is ruined. Buy and be sorry.

I absolutely love this movie it's totally geniuse absolutely brilliant and Sly, Whit, and Carrie are my favorite character's their awesome like in the movie Carrie was thinking of saying her first words to the grown-ups and all and before she does she say's to whit when I start talking in their language I'm just going to quote the gettysburgh address and whit says nah you gotta say da-da or ma-ma they go nuts do it. I love this movie I gave it 5 stars becuase the movie is awesome I just wish they would have came out with a movie soundtrack or a video game for this movie if they would have came out with either or I would defently get both the soundtrack and the game if they would come out with either one.

well to wuote another reviewer: "This movie makes the movies on MST3K look like cinematic masterpieces". by the way, that is the funniest thing ive heard in months. if only it were a joke. hell even i was a kid when i watched this, and MY intelligence was insulted. just look at the dvd cover. 'nuff said about the actors.

What more can I say? This tasteless, contrived, completely unfunny film with poor special effects to boot actually has Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Peter MacNichol, and Dom DeLuise in it. These are actors who at one time actually had reputations to protect... Did they all really need a paycheck THAT badly? Couldn't they have done dinner theater or a decent TV movie or something if they were this desperate for cash? Heck, I know guys who would love to be married to Kathleen Turner to keep her from having to do this kind of trash. (Sorry, Kathleen, I'm already taken. If you'd asked me ten years ago...) Anyway, avoid this one like the plague. And if your kid absolutely insists on seeing it, draw straws with your wife to see which one of you has to watch it with the little tyke. If you lose the first time, ask your spouse if he/she will agree to "two out of three."

P.S. I think that guy Johnny8 was kidding when he gave this movie five stars (see rest of reviews). God, I hope so for his sake.

One truly wonders how movies such as this get made, and how respectable actresses like Kathleen Turner somehow convince themselves that taking roles such as this are actually good career moves.

This is truly dreadful stuff. If someone you love suggests renting this movie to watch at home, I would say it is high time to give your relationship a serious re-evaluation.

This garbage is angling for a spot on my list of the 10 worst movies I have ever had this misfortune to see. Burning every copy of this film would be doing humanity a favor.

This is one of the most embarassingly awful movies I have ever seen. It makes the movies watched on MST3K look like cinematic masterpieces. I work at a video store and have seen several people on different ocassions actually BUY this movie! I wanted to punch them out and put some sort of sense into them. If you buy this movie for your kid because he likes it, you are making a mistake. It is rubbish like this that makes kids shoot other kids. Buy them a good family movie like E.T. or PINNOCHIO. ANY thing but this TERRIBLE MOVIE. Bob Clark makes Ed Wood look like Orson Welles. They say the phrase "Diaper Gravy" not once, not twice, but THREE TIMES in this movie, as if the first time wasn't enough. This movie should be deleted from mankind's memory. Just DON'T BUY THIS EVER.

Either Johnny8Ball is at the height of his sarcastic powers or he has contributed the single worst review ever to appear on Amazon.com. Not only is the movie he selected one of the most incompetent and offensive ever made, it is perverse, dull, slapdash, and horribly unfunny. The alleged "humor" never hits (NOT ONCE!) and the performances by the "legendary cast" range from embarrassing to downright shameful. Hopefully, potential viewers will avoid the obviously jaded rambling of Mr. Eight Ball and stay far, far away from a film that would not appeal to anyone, adults or children.

I can't believe that this movie had such a great cast, what were they all thinking when they decided to appear in this unintelligent, stupid film. Nothing about this film was good. I don't even think little kids would enjoy this crap. It's a bad rip-off of "Look Who's Talking."

Don't be fooled by the apparent innocence of the infant in glasses that graces this video's cover. The cover in no way describes the movie you're about to watch...a dark, violent film noir piece full of sex, deceit, and betrayal.

The film version, like Lord of the Rings, had to be changed a bit for the big screen, and you'll find a few things differ from the original French novel "Le Genius Babie."

These changes, as you'll find, are mostly aesthetic. For example: since this film version takes place in the '90s instead of the novel's 19th century setting, the babies use the internet to find their pornography as opposed to looking thru grandpa's lithographs.

But rest assured, the central figure of the film is still Baby John Bastardo. His quest is intact from the novel, too: kill all other living babies (by beheading, of course) to claim his birthright: immortality.

Sound familiar? It should. "Highlander" directly ripped off this premise. But I digress.

Unfortunately for Baby John, there's another very smart, very resourceful tot standing in the way of his: Baby George the Beautiful.

I won't give away too much of the plot, as I'm sure you're all familiar with it (after all, Le Genius Babie is required reading in most high schools), but I will relate one of the most chilling scenes I've ever witnessed in cinema: when Baby John takes the beautiful Baby Jean de los Underpants hostage, and subsequently pulls out her right eye with a shrimp fork, I was riveted...RIVETED to my seat.

In short, "Baby Geniuses" is definitely not for kids. It's dark, twisted, and a guilty pleasure not to be missed.

This movie is horrible, I mean for a comedy it isn't even funny. They aren't even babies there toddlers, I mean come on folks, my two younger brothers didn't even like this movie. How can people even compare this to the Rugrats. If you want a movie to entertain your kids or yourself rent any other movie than this. I highly recommend not wasting your money on even renting it.