Baby Geniuses Review

I know this film wasn’t well liked by people, but I like it and feel like I can review it. I don’t think that any of you have to read this if you don’t like it. I got a copy of this again and it is one of my favorite films from my childhood. Thus, I’m going to review it for this blog.

 

We begin with people revealing that Sylvester has escaped. He leads them to a maze and is revealed to be a toddler. This is at a place for Baby Geniuses, it seems. While he can outsmart them and even uses martial arts at one point, a doctor there gets him back in their custody in a lab 25 stories below ground. Sly is revealed to be a twin undergoing the Kender method. Whit is raised in a normal family in the meantime as Baby Co is revealed to be a place here with an indoor amusement park.

 

Elaine, the leader of this place, takes people on a tour. The adoptive parents of Whit are there. She largely complains and thinks that her husband’s work is being stolen. They can’t afford much here. There is a big baby called Baby Bundy. There are also remote controlled animals at a petting zoo instead of a regular zoo. Everything there is controlled by a command center.

 

Elaine talks about Sly some while Whit goofs around back at his house. The doctor shows what the babies here are like and thinks that all babies might be like this. They want to educate the human mind. They feel that babies understand each other in their own baby language. But there is a point where they cross over and lose their baby ways. They do talk to each other and feel superior, especially with the methods that they are being taught.

 

There is a man or teen there that has pink hair and is the babysitter. He wants to get fired. But they don’t think that it will happen. This man calls himself Ice Pick. At the house, the strange father there notices the baby talk that Whit does when Whit says a sentence ending with “by a factor of four at least.” He wants to show this to people with Whit and the girl there with them concerned by this.

 

Sly is in trouble and put in lock up. But he is able to figure out a way out of the cell. After talking to a girl there, he talks the diaper express out. He eavesdrops on the conversation about this and learns that there are some issues with Baby Bundy. He leaves the place and is out in the street.

 

Meanwhile, the father shows the footage of Whit saying what he said. He claims to have remembered the baby language in some way. Whit convinces his sister, I think, that she should say dada and mama. As predicted, this makes them go crazy as they love it. While Sly is out, Whit gets a strange feeling and gets freaked out when a homeless man gets hold of Sly for a while.

 

Whit is able to escape and convinces a girl to switch clothes with him. He goes through the area and sees Elaine’s goons after him. He is in a mall and stays in a Macys over the night. He plays the Playstation and otherwise changes clothes and has fun in the mall by himself. I bet whoever watches security here, if anyone, would find this pretty strange.

 

Whit’s adoptive father thinks about adding a new wing and the math adds up. He thinks that he got this idea from his child. He thinks that all kids could have the answers to life before they turn two and then cross over. He and his wife change their kid’s diapers while Ice Pick pretends to be a monk or at least some type of Buddhist person. Buddhists can be monks, right?

 

Whit arrives at the mall with his mother. Sly notices the goons there. He and his twin notice each other while Whit winds up taken by Elaine’s goons. Sly is taken by his mother away. Whit is in tears as he is returned to the place where Elaine is at. Why is a mall open? Wasn’t this said to be Christmas? Or is it just that time of year?

 

Carrie is upset when she learns that her brother has been switched with him. He has energy and was swinging on a tire. The other babies notice that Sly isn’t like himself. He reveals what’s going on with the other babies figuring it out. Elaine is told by what is going on by the doctor who figured it out. One of the babies there crosses over and becomes like an adult. Elaine seeks to see her family to see how the real Sly is doing wanting him to be compared in a new way. Sly is able to communicate some things with his father, but his father can’t understand too much of it.

 

Elaine says that they have to have both of the twins or else she could go to prison as could everyone else. Ice Pick gets a nose ring and other problems. People show up under the idea of fixing a power outage. Sly is able to get one of the men in his forbidden zone. The other man also doesn’t pick up the ski and gets hit in the gonads as well. They leave and so does Elaine with the others. Sly talks to his twin with their telepathic ways to learn of what is happening with the other one.

 

Both of the twins train the other hoards of babies that they have with them with Whit getting all of his babies to abandon Elaine. They think that they are at risk of crossing over. The babies have to use their intelligence in order to outsmart the humans as it is what they fear most. Sly wants to hypnotize the one main man in control while also doing this to Ice Pick as well who then gets a woman there to also obey his command. Carrie stays behind as the rest of the babies from this house are taken to Baby Co.

 

Lenny is the bus driver and he is taking a vitally important mission to Baby Co. The rest of the babies’ parents are wondering where their kids are. Carrie speaks to her father and he is able to understand what is going on as she can speak to him. She also promises to give him the secrets to life.

 

This man talks to 9-1-1 and is mistaken for a crazy person. His wife calls back and makes a bomb threat at Baby Co to ensure that cops arrive there. Meanwhile, the babies try to escape. If I could be sweet. Recreate a place for my own world.

 

Elaine notices people acting weird and the robots are all summoned. Sly is in control, although I’m not sure how he gets in control instead of Whit. But it does make more sense that he would have knowledge of how to do that instead of Whit. Sly gets people to go on a ride. The babies attack the adults. It seems that they have the upper hand as usual. But then Whit is taken by Elaine.

 

The parents arrive as Elaine goes to a helicopter on the roof. She flies away with Whit, or at least tries to. The police arrive in their own chopper which prevents them from escaping. The mother doesn’t want to hit her aunt, but upon learning that she’s adopted, she does do just that. Both Sly and Whit cross over to the other side of not babyhood or whatever you’d call it.

 

At first Ken, the father, has issues with remembering, but then remembers what is going on. Carrie doesn’t reveal anything to her father. In another Kodak moment, the family is gathered together and we see clips of what has happened throughout the movie. And this is where the movie ends.

 

We see either Sly or Whit talk about sequels or at least one to this movie. I’ve seen only the first sequel to this: Superbabies. It was very bad. In fact, it was so bad, it was once the lowest ranked film in the Internet Movie Database. I won’t be reviewing any of the sequels to this film.

 

Still, I actually enjoy this film, unlike most people. I think that it is funny enough in some places and doesn’t take itself too seriously or more so than it has to be. I can understand some of the issues that people have with it, although I find it good enough to own and watch again and again. That’s all there is that I have to say about this movie. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.