[ZERO]
+ 2nd Worst Movie of the Year
+ Most Undeserved Hit of the Year
Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloys and a smiling, unknowing baby on the poster for Bob Clark's Baby Geniuses |
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A baby company/imperium is opening a new indoor amusement park, but also run an underground baby-nest for little baby geniuses, who, however, escape.
The babies talk together, often without moving their lips (...), and tell each other lots of pop-cultural references and the likes, - which they obviously haven't learned yet or been born with, - and hit adult men in the nuts and laugh, - at one occasion two times right after another.
Humor-bereft, free of anything resembling soul or heart, ugly and wildly unlikely, idiotic, humanly offensive movie: Whatever in the world could possibly justify the use of actual babies in the leads in anything as crappy as Baby Geniuses? I watched the film and felt extremely sorry for these young individuals, while I knew that I will despise the adult (crackpot) stars of the movie for a considerable future: Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Peter MacNicol, Ruby Dee, Dom DeLuise and Kim Cattrall.
Turner (Romancing the Stone (1984)) screams and snorts her way through the film, red as a balloon, and most every other actor also turn in wretched performances in this preposterous movie.
Baby Geniuses is a big Hollywood-ghastliness directed by Bob Clark (Black Christmas (1974)), which somehow became financially successful and spun an - also critically loathed - sequel. The film deservedly positions itself in # 80 in IMDb's Bottom 100 List.
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Bob Clark: 1999 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
Black Christmas (1974) - Dark Canadian slasher frontrunner
Watch this movie, if you're ready for something offensively bad, Bob Clark's Baby Geniuses |
Budget: 12 mil. $
Box office: 36.4 mil. $
= Big hit
What do you think of Baby Geniuses?
Have you seen the sequel?
If so, please, 'enlighten' us about it ...
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