SuperBabies has no redeeming qualities
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:0
Rotten:40
Average Rating:2.1/10
Consensus: Superbabies continues to prove that bad jokes still aren’t funny when coming out of a toddler’s mouth.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Baby Geniuses 2: Superbabies is the sequel to Baby Geniuses starring Kathleen Turner and Christopher Lloyd, whose characters secretly worked to crack the code to “baby talk,” a highly sophisticated... Baby Geniuses 2: Superbabies is the sequel to Baby Geniuses starring Kathleen Turner and Christopher Lloyd, whose characters secretly worked to crack the code to “baby talk,” a highly sophisticated language that allows babies to communicate their innate knowledge of the secrets of the universe. In Baby Geniuses 2: Superbabies, the adventure continues with a new generation of talking toddlers. This time, the baby geniuses find themselves at the center of a nefarious scheme led by powerful media mogul Bill Biscane (Jon Voight). Joining the babies in their battle against evil is a legendary baby named Kahuna (Leo, Myles and Gerry Fitzgerald). Part ultra-cool spy, part superhero, Kahuna joins babies Archie (Michael & Max Iles), Finkleman (Jordan & Jared Scheideman), Alex (Joshua & Maxwell Lockhart) and Rosita (Keana & Maia Bastidas) in a race against time to stop the villainous Biscane from using his state-of-the-art satellite system to control the minds of the world’s population. -- © Sony Pictures Entertainment [More]
Starring: Jon Voight, Scott Baio, Vanessa Angel, Skyler Shaye
Starring: Jon Voight, Scott Baio, Vanessa Angel, Skyler Shaye, Justin Chatwin, Gerry Fitzgerald, Leo Fitzgerald, Myles Fitzgerald, Max Iles, Michael Iles, Jared Scheideman, Jordan Scheideman, Joshua Lockhart, Maxwell Lockhart, Keena Bastidas, Maia Bastidas
Director: Bob Clark
Director: Bob Clark
Screenwriter: Gregory Poppen
Producer: Jon Voight, Steven Paul
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Reviews for Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2
Seems to want to espouse family unity and good parenting, or at least, the unhappy results of parentless children.
The action sequences are phony-looking; the dialogue sounds largely improvised on the fly; the laughs are few and far between; and the acting ... is, to put it kindly, wooden.
Entirely too convoluted for kids and implausible even by the standards set by the original concept.
Whatever wit could be mined from the idea of breaking the code to baby talk was exhausted in the original Baby Geniuses five years ago.
The shtick is as stale and over-processed as expired Froot Loops, with references that were dated even when the original was released.
It is perhaps the most incompetent and least funny comic film ever made. There aren't even any good diaper jokes.
More than just another sequel that no one was clamoring to see, this is that rare follow-up that's actually twice as good as the original and is still a piece of junk.
There's what one can only hope is the last-ever Matrix tribute/theft, plus a mostly unfunny stew of references to the Three Stooges, Popeye, Mary Poppins, and even Casablanca. The overall effect is ghoulish.
Features even more toddlers acting in a way only collectors of velvet paintings will consider irresistible.
The film's moral? Turn off the TV, young 'uns, and go outside and play! And avoid Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 matinees while you're at it.
This interminable Pampers commercial has the nerve to end with a 'TV is rotten for kids' message, when the movie itself would do far more to stunt a child's imagination (or cause a kid to burst into tears) than anything currently on television.
It's lots of lame jokes where tots say stuff like 'off the hook' and 'da bomb.'
If anyone was clamoring for a follow-up to 1999's Baby Geniuses, they'll be happy to know that the sequel retains not only the same gimmicky premise as the original but its preference for cliche-ridden dialogue and flat-footed comedy as well.
Talking babies are just creepy. I kept waiting for the Superbabies' heads to start spinning around with pea soup flying everywhere. Sadly, this would have been an improvement
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