Baby Geniuses

Baby Geniuses (1999)

  • 2% of critics liked it
    (44 reviews)

  • 32% of users liked it
    (81,627 ratings)

Dr. Elena Kinder (Kathleen Turner) is the highly visible chief executive of BABYCO, the world's largest manufacturer of baby products. The company funds orphanages across the world and just opened an indoor theme park for children adjacent to its corporate headquarters in Los Angeles.… More

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PG,
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Genres
Drama, Kids & Family, Comedy
In Theaters
Mar 12, 1999 Wide
TriStar Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Lael Loewenstein, Variety

    A thoroughly misguided, unfunny film.

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader

    The hokey dialogue and witless physical gags keep everything painful and hectoring.

  • Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle

    If the remainder of this century will bring a lamer film than Baby Geniuses, may I please be in Estonia when it comes.

  • Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

    The movie is about as endearing as unanesthetized gum surgery.

  • Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle

    The film has a freak-show quality.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Lucas M


    Terrible! The worst of could be in the filmography of Bob Clark. A low point in Christopher Lloyd carrer.

  • Conner R


    Without a doubt, this is one of the worst movies to have ever been made. To see Bob Clark's sanity decline over the years has been tragic to say the least, but this really puts him in a irreparable spot. When you take into account that he started with Black Christmas, this is… More

  • KJ P


    I think I am the person in the world who may like this more than anyone, because every single person I ask despises this film, but I look at all the good things that could have been changed to make it good! In the end I laughed a few times, but never hated it!

  • Jason O


    "Baby Geniuses" is one of the biggest disappointments ever. From the previews, I thought "Baby Geniuses" was gonna be hilarious. But I was wrong. Only a couple of parts in the movie even made me grin. A relentless scientist (Kathleen Turner) keeps babies in order… More

  • Dean M


    So incoherent, irresponsible "comedy" does the same thing by turning a group of aborable toddlers into a bunch of miniature potty-mouthed adults.

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