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Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 [VHS]

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(9)

 

 

Normally I wouldn't bother to do a review for such a terrible movie. But this one was so bad that I couldn't believe it got a theatrical release. I'll start by stating the most obvious of flaws with this movie. First of all why did anyone bother to do a sequal to the original movie bomb Baby Geniuses? I am aware that this movie was made for young children but you should still give them a little bit of credit. No kid over the age of 3 would find this movie interesting. The costume design for this movie was amazingly bad. The main cast were the toddlers and all they wore through most of the film were white t-shirts and diapers. Were they trying to save money by letting the kids run around in their undergarments or did they think it looked cute? Maybe they were trying to remind the audience that the kids in the movie were supposed to be babies? I really feel badly for the kids in the movie who will have to go through school being constantly teased and embarassed because of this horrible movie. Hopefully they will never be forced to sit through a showing of the movie when they get older.

Painful to watch if you are the parent or grandparent, but my 4 year old grandson adored it. He identified with all the babies and clearly thought he could be the Kahuna. He watched it 4 times this weekend. I suspect it would seem incredibly stupid to any child much older than 6.

Not funny at all. Not even a little. One old man in the theater laughed once, but I think he was having a funny dream. My kids couldn't wait to leave the theater.

Jon Voight is a fine actor. What was he thinking?

Believe it or not the film starts in East Berlin in 1962 in an East Berlin orphanage run by the notorious Colonel Kane (Voight). He is soundly defeated in an ideological struggle by a young superhero named "The Kahuna" (played by the triple threat of Gerry, Leo, and Myles Fitzgerald) with ridiculous equipment that made me think of "Batman". Decades later, the Kahuna ("A small fry with a big attitude") befriends four tots from Scott Baio's daycare center. Baio wants to ally himself with television mogul Bill Biscayne (also Voight) but the kids recognize him as Colonel Kane from their knowledge of the Berlin Wall. Biscayne has a plan to take over the world via mind control streamed through a bad kid's television show about a dancing frog in a top hat. For safety Kahuna puts the tots and their teenage chaperone in protective custody in "a baby utopia" under the Hollywood sign. This place is part Batcave, part Holodeck, and the Kahuna is master of it all, even finding time to take phone calls from Whoopi Goldberg and the President (who is put on hold while baby genius plans are made). There is a secret CD, a secret lab, a bunch of lame secret weapons, and a long (really long) backstory explaining the Kahuna's troubled life. There is also (of course) a subplot about romance between teen chaperones, a showdown between the forces of good and evil, and the mind control device being switched to the "free will" mode, utterly defeating Biscayne, who gets to duke it out with Scott Baio (!) and who finally shrinks into the form of a homely baby himself. There is one twist near the end of the film that is pretty obvious, but since I had to sit through this whole thing to see the moment of truth, I don't think it would be fair to spoil it for anyone else.

"Baby Geniuses 2" is a truly odious film, even given its intended audience. I do not recommend that any humans be exposed to it above the age of zygote; blastocyst at the very oldest. The only thing that "Baby Geniuses 2" is good for is as a gift for battle-savvy B-movie addicts. In that role it shines; otherwise avoid it at all costs.

This was a cute little movie. I bought it because my daughter just had a baby and I was buying the first one. I was surprised at how much I truly enjoyed this movie. I do like the orginal better it is hard to duplicate the orginal in any movie, but this movie held it's own. If you have children or if you are just a kid at heart then grab the popcorn, the candy and cup of soda sit back and enjoy this cute little movie. P.S. You can't beat the price either!

The one star reviewers are 100% correct. This "movie" is horrendous! The first movie stunk like government cheese so it should be of no surprise that this sequel stinks. The so-called plot revolves around some evil media mogul named Biscane(played by Jon Voight)with some wacky scheme revolving around mind control on kids through the TV screen. The baby "geniuses headed by Kahuna plan to take on Biscane and cheesy hijinks ensue. The plot is horrible and the acting is just as bad. Scott Baio should have bowed out gracefully since Charles In Charge went of the air but no he chose to be here. Jon Voight usually shines even when he is in a bad movie but here he is reduced to a total ham who acts like he is on freebase. The jokes are why-did-the-chicken-cross-the-road corny but it seems that the director believes that a crappy jokes are funny when it comes from toddlers. WRONG! Crappy jokes are still crappy jokes even if it comes from children. What kind of milk you drinkin? Who wrote this script? the writers of Howard The Duck? Besides the brainless rhesus monkey who is screen-named after a Flinstones character, the rest of these positive reviews must be from unscrupulous shills. No, I'm not being mean-spirited, this movie is not even so bad its good. Its so bad its terrible. Only a shill could recommend this atrocity to celluloid. Jon Voight should fire his agent and Scott Baio should quit while people still have fond memories of him. Two Thumbs WAAAAAYYYYYYY down!

The first "Baby Geniuses" movie was inane and boring enough, why make a sequel? Are studios that hard up to make money? That scared of trying something different for fear of losing money? I guess they figure going with a franchise that has a proven record of mediocrity is safer - at least you're not surprised when you lose money. This film is not campy or cheesy bad, it's just plain boring bad - the worst kind of cinematic experience.

I guess my reason for writing a review of a movie this bad several years after its release is this - Parents, if you're looking for family-safe entertainment, you can do better than this type of film. Your kids are smarter than this. If they're young enough not to mind sitting through this film, then they are too young to enjoy any kind of movie anyways. For family-safe entertainment you can never go wrong with just about anything made by Pixar. Pixar knows how to make films that use CGI to accentuate already good plots and interesting characters, not as a substitute for them.

As for this film, it makes Gigli look like Citizen Kane. 20 years from now if there is a "Mystery Science 4000" to replace the now defunct MST3K, I'm sure this film will be one of the featured objects of ridicule... if the poor robots can stand the torment of sitting through it.

the story plot is cheap ansd sucky - believe me! the characters are not develpoed enough. in fact, it was so bad, i couldn't even remember much of it! the only really interesting thing about it was the relationship between kahuna biscane and his older brother. kahuna is almost immortal - he will forever have the body of a child. biscane is jealous of him, and hates him. and so the two have an emotional moment. the movie shows plenty of kahuna's past. but nothing else very interesting. the movie should not have been released in theatres. i tried to 'make the film more interesting' by using my imagination to think of anything that may be happening offscreen, but found out i coul dn't.

Okay, first off, why make a sequel to one of the worst films of all time?

Second, why pull an E.T. and remove the guns from the movie?

Third, why even consider greenlighting this film?

I rest my case.

this movie is a must see for the entire family. it has it all, the comedy and actions are tremendously hilarious. if you wanna put a big smile on your baby's face, then surely watch it.