Product Details

• Actors: Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, Dom DeLuise
• Directors: Bob Clark (III)
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: January 23, 2001
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000J2K1
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #36,919 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

When babies babble or draw, adults jokingly say they know what the baby is trying to communicate. What if a clinic found that these babblings and doodles were actually very intelligent responses or scribbling of an ancient form of communication? Well, it seems that all it would create is this tepid comedy. Kathleen Turner runs the clinic that believes babies have "universal knowledge" before they learn to speak (and dumb down). What she plans to do with this knowledge is never really understood, but know this: the plans are evil. The secret lives of babies have been pretty adorably filmed previously with Look Who's Talking, but here the babies talk and move via visual effects like the animals in Babe. They also karate chop adults and talk about such adorable things as "diaper gravy." By the time the story (a variation of The Parent Trap) heats up (relatively speaking), there is not much left to engage us except some cute babies that just look odd as effects take over their mouths and movements. --Doug Thomas

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I must protest with all that I have......, January 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Baby Geniuses (DVD)

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.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Diaper gravy is right, June 3, 2000

By	Michael Pierce (Sacramento, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baby Geniuses (DVD)

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.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars So horrible, it is embarrassing for all involved., January 30, 2004

By	L. Quido "quidrock" (Tampa, FL United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Baby Geniuses (DVD)

Friends left this for me when I was babysitting their small children. We mutually agreed (they were 5 and 7) to shut it the hell down and go make s'mores.

When "Body Heat" debuted in 1981, first time director (yes, it WAS 22 years ago) Lawrence Kasden sealed his career success by debuting a stylish, 40's film noir and coaxing great performances from bad boys William Hurt, Mickey Rourke and Ted Danson (OK,OK, Ted's not a bad boy, but you get my drift). Bursting on the scene like a cat on the prowl was amazing actress and bodyKathleen Turner. Let's face it, the ice cubes in the bathtub scene and the Lauren Bacall voice- channeling made Kathleen one of Hollywood's hottest prospects.

It's sad to thing that, 18 years later and a few good films later, Hollywood has so few roles for older women that Kathleen was reduced to this dreck.

Turner gets dragged through the scenes with some actors of comic note: Christopher Lloyd, Peter MacNichol, Dom Deluise (at least he looks comedic, I don't pass judgement on his normal schtick. ).

The visual effects suck, the tone is histrionic, and director Bob Clark III (How could he give us "A Christmas Story" with Peter Billingsley, and actually allow this film to air? Wasn't he afraid? Was he out of his mind?....maybe, he's also the man behind the "Porky's" flicks). somehow brings this bomb to a conclusion. I don't know what it was, we couldn't watch anymore.