Quartile rating: 4/10 · 1 rating
BabyCo is the world's leading manufacturer in baby products. However, what the public doesn't know, is that Drs Kinder and Heep, two of its most brilliant scientists, are tirelessly working in complete secrecy to crack the indecipherable code to 'baby talk': a highly sophisticated language, and the key to the secrets of the universe. Before long, problems arise when mischievous Sly, the smartest of the toddlers, escapes confinement, bent on uniting all babies to free those trapped in the laboratory. Now, Kinder and Heep must find Sly before it is too late.
Baby Geniuses is widely regarded as one of the worst films of its era. The plot is a nonsensical, poorly executed sci-fi comedy premise that squanders even its modest concept — babies with secret knowledge used for corporate exploitation — through lazy writing and painfully unfunny execution. The acting, led by Kathleen Turner and Christopher Lloyd, is hammy and beneath the talents involved, while the CGI lip-syncing on the babies is technically abysmal even by 1999 standards. The cinematography is flat and televisual with no visual ambition. While the concept of babies as secret geniuses has a faint novelty, it was already explored better elsewhere and executed so poorly here that it earns no distinction. The ending resolves nothing memorably and wraps up sloppily, leaving no impression beyond relief.