Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)

Critic Reviews

• Joanne Kaufman, Wall Street Journal

  Ghastly.

• J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

  Excruciating.

• Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News

  No worry about brainwashing kids through this movie, though. They probably won't be that entertained.

• Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

  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.

• Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle

  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.

• Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger

  The shtick is as stale and over-processed as expired Froot Loops, with references that were dated even when the original was released.

• Common Sense Media Editors, Common Sense Media

  These babies need a time out.

• Jane Horwitz, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

  Apart from Jon Voight, slumming and turning in a rather droll, if lonely, performance as the German-accented villain, the movie amounts to cynical, cutesy claptrap.

• Nathan Rabin, AV Club

  Why? Seriously, why?

• Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine

  A sick joke that should make strange bedfellows between pederasts and the insipid demographic that keeps Anne Geddes's paper stacked.

• Eric Henderson, Slant Magazine

  Camp primer for the Huggies Pull-Ups crowd.

• Sarah Chauncey, Reel.com

  This movie is just plain wrong. So, so, so wrong.

• David Cornelius, eFilmCritic.com

  [It's] the sort of intellectually offensive children's movie one would make if one knew nothing about children.

• Frank Ochieng, Movie Eye

  Clark's CGI-induced rugrat romp is about as inspiring in its hilarity as a diaper rash. Exceedingly nonsensical and...excuse the intended pun-infantile

• Stephen Himes, Flak Magazine

  Like dadaist art, Baby Geniuses challenge the artist-audience contract: We *hear* the babies talking, but we clearly *see* that they aren't.

• MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher

  To call this immeasurably terrible movie 'stupid and nonsensical' would be an insult to stupid and nonsensical movies.

• Marjorie Baumgarten, Austin Chronicle

  It is offensive on so many levels. First, let's just call SuperBabies what it is: child abuse.

• Tom Meek, Boston Phoenix

  Is there really a market of children out there that will find this funny or entertaining?

• Liz Braun, Jam! Movies

  You're not actually still reading about this stupid, crass, condescending, dreadful movie, are you?

• Daniel M. Kimmel, Worcester Telegram & Gazette

  Best parental advice: if you had to take the kids to Garfield, you've already suffered enough this summer.

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