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Two women, Kari and Jolene, walk into the kitchen of a typical suburban, American house. Jolene turns on a home video camera on a tripod and Kari walks up to the pantry and pulls out an ice cream bowl and puts it on the kitchen floor. Jolene lowers her pants and defecates into the ice cream bowl. Kari lies on the floor licking and consuming the fresh faeces. Kari gets off the floor and squats over the ice cream cup where she urinates on the ice cream bowl. Jolene lies on the floor licking up the newly created urine-faeces concoction. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, walks into the kitchen holding a pet goat on a leash. Kari and Jolene alternate as the goat is made to penetrate the stars. Afterwards, Wales takes the goat and the ice cream bowl and leaves the kitchen. The two stars take turns squatting as the other vomits in the former's mouth. Realizing that the camera did not have any tape inside, Kari takes the camera off the tripod and defecates into the tape deck. Kari takes a silver colored permanent marker off of the kitchen counter and writes "Baby Geniuses" on the side of the camera. They mail the camera to a film executive who produces the film "Baby Geniuses". The women return to the kitchen and Kari takes an ice cream bowl out of the pantry and places it on the floor. The film ends with the caption "Baby Geniuses II?" |
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Two scientists, Dr. Elena Kinder ([[Kathleen Turner]]) and Dr. Heep ([[Christopher Lloyd]]), use genius baby studies to fund their BabyCo [[theme park]]. At age two, the children are due to 'cross over', learn to talk, and forget their universal knowledge. |
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One mischievous toddler, Sylvester, labeled Sly, makes repeated attempts to escape the "Kinder" lab and one night, he actually succeeds. What Sly does not expect is to run into his twin, Whit, in a mall playground. Although Sly and Whit share a [[Telepathy|telepathic]] bond, they have no idea of each other's existence. While the guards from the lab capture Whit, mistake him for Sly, and take him back to the Kinder lab, Sly is taken home by Whit's adopted mother, Robin ([[Kim Cattrall]]), who is Dr. Kinder's niece. After Dr. Kinder discovers the mix-up, she decides to do a cross evaluation on the twins. However, when she comes to Dan Bobbin's Place, she realizes that Dan Bobbin can understand babies. After the attempts to retrieve Sly fail, Dr. Kinder decides to move the labs to Lichtenstein. |
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The babies at Bobbin's place hypnotize Lenny ([[Dom DeLuise]]), the bus driver to drive to Kinder Labs. Once at the labs, Sly goes to the control room to set the robots from the theme park on the lab scientists. When the Bobbins return home, their natural daughter Carrie tells her father that the children are in the Kinder Labs. At the end of the fight Dr. Kinder captures Whit and takes him to the helicopter pad on the roof. Robin and Dan chase them to the roof, where Dr. Kinder reveals that she and Robin are not related, and that Robin was adopted at age two. Just then police helicopters come, ending the fight. Sly and Whit come together on the roof to cross over. |
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Dan and Robin adopt Sly. Dan is still curious of the secrets of life, but as the twins have crossed over they no longer know those secrets. Carrie, their sister, doesn't reveal anything (just gives her dad a sly smile) because adults aren't meant to know their secrets. |
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==Cast== |
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Revision as of 14:57, 6 October 2011
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 Theatrical release poster for the film's promotionalism. | |
| Directed by | Bob Clark |
| Written by | Steven Paul Francisca Matos Robert Grasmere |
| Produced by | Steven Paul |
| Starring | Kathleen Turner Peter MacNicol Kim Cattrall Christopher Lloyd Dom DeLuise Ruby Dee Kyle Howard |
| Cinematography | Stephen M. Katz |
| Edited by | Stan Cole |
| Music by | Paul Zaza |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
Release date | March 12, 1999 |
Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Template:Film US |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $18 million |
| Box office | $36,450,736[1] |
Baby Geniuses is a 1999 family-oriented comedy film directed by Bob Clark, rated PG for "some rude behavior and dialogue". It stars Kathleen Turner and Christopher Lloyd.
Computer-generated imagery effects were used to digitally superimpose moving lips over babies' mouths, an effect similarly used in Clutch Cargo, but many critics pointed the effect out as being unnerving.
In 2004 it was followed by a sequel, Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, which had an even worse critical reaction than the original and also bombed at the box-office. Both films currently reside in Internet Movie Database's Bottom 100 list.[2]
Plot
Two women, Kari and Jolene, walk into the kitchen of a typical suburban, American house. Jolene turns on a home video camera on a tripod and Kari walks up to the pantry and pulls out an ice cream bowl and puts it on the kitchen floor. Jolene lowers her pants and defecates into the ice cream bowl. Kari lies on the floor licking and consuming the fresh faeces. Kari gets off the floor and squats over the ice cream cup where she urinates on the ice cream bowl. Jolene lies on the floor licking up the newly created urine-faeces concoction. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, walks into the kitchen holding a pet goat on a leash. Kari and Jolene alternate as the goat is made to penetrate the stars. Afterwards, Wales takes the goat and the ice cream bowl and leaves the kitchen. The two stars take turns squatting as the other vomits in the former's mouth. Realizing that the camera did not have any tape inside, Kari takes the camera off the tripod and defecates into the tape deck. Kari takes a silver colored permanent marker off of the kitchen counter and writes "Baby Geniuses" on the side of the camera. They mail the camera to a film executive who produces the film "Baby Geniuses". The women return to the kitchen and Kari takes an ice cream bowl out of the pantry and places it on the floor. The film ends with the caption "Baby Geniuses II?"
Cast
- Kathleen Turner as Dr. Elena Kinder
- Peter MacNicol as Dan
- Kim Cattrall as Robin
- Christopher Lloyd as Dr. Heep
- Dom DeLuise as Lenny
- Ruby Dee as Margo
- Kyle Howard as Dickie
- Gabrielle and Megan Robbins as Carrie
- Leo, Gerry and Myles Fitzgerald as Sly/Whit
Reception
Baby Geniuses received overwhelmingly negative reviews, with review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reporting that only 2% of critics gave the film a positive review.[3]. It was listed by leading American film critic Roger Ebert as one of his most hated movies and ranked as his worst film of 1999, [4] even though he gave the film a ranking of 1.5/4, which isn't the lowest rating he has available.
The magazine Boxoffice gave the movie a positive review, simply calling it "a live-action Rugrats".
Sequel
Due to the film's commercial success, a sequel was made, titled Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, directed again by Bob Clark. The sequel, like the original, is widely considered among the worst films of all time, and received worse reviews than the original.
References
- ^ Baby Geniuses at Box Office Mojo
- ^ The Bottom 100 at IMDb
- ^ "Baby Geniuses Reviews". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2010-09-05.
- ^ "Ebert's Most Hated". Chicago Sun-Times.