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| Directed by Bob Clark; Starring Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, Ruby Dee, and Dom DeLuise |
And I thought Jack was bad. In what is the second worst film I’ve seen so far this year, Baby Geniuses shows just how easy it is to become a film director these days. Of course heaven forbid I say anything against director Clark, he was the genius behind Porky’s 1 and 2.
I’ll admit that I was one of the many that were enthralled by the talking animals of Babe and its sequel but these talking babies scared me more than they enchanted me. I think that when Miko Hughes is credited as the voice of the main child, it is time to give up on the film. The saddest thing is that this was produced by Oscar winning actor Jon Voight. I bought a copy of Deliverance this weekend just so that I could remember Voight back when he was respectable. Also, is this the official end of the careers of Christopher Lloyd and Kathleen Turner, the last time I saw each of them were in My Favorite Martian and A Simple Wish, respectively. Even the somewhat refreshing Peter MacNicol lacks anything to talk about in this. I enjoy his often unusual hijinx on the TV series Ally McBeal, but he seemed just as out of place in this as he did in hid first film Dragonslayer.
If you have yet to be convinced not to see it, I’m sure the plot shall do it. Baby Geniuses follows two twin brothers that were separated at birth because they are geniuses and their evil aunt (Turner) and her accomplice (Lloyd) want to test the intellectual brain of one of the brothers and a group of other babies. They get switched around and now the one that is on the outside must get in and save his brother from being sent to Lithuania or somewhere like that. According to this film, the babies are so smart that they talk in their own archaic language and have carried the knowledge of their parents until the time that they start talking.
To close this, I’m going to paraphrase what Leonard Maltin said about Hamburger: The Movie: “If you decide to see this, you get what you deserve.”
