I grew up watching the trailers to this, and I even watched the first Baby Geniuses a million times when I was little. When I saw the trailers, I honestly thought the movie was going to be terrible.
And I was right. Ten years later I watched this in it's entirety.
Does it deserve it's 1.9 rating, however? To be honest, it's actually better than the first in the fact that it doesn't have a dated 90's feel to it, and the bad, corny jokes are... at least a bit better, even though there's even more than the first.
Quick overview of the plot: Old man wants to run brainwashing TV station but a bunch of babies stop him. That bit of a plot alone is so mind- numbing; but in all truth, the true demographic [4-8 year olds] don't go for detail. To make up for it, adult jokes are dispersed cringingly.
With a 20 million dollar budget, half-baked special effects are thrown everywhere, tinted with mediocre lip-syncing. They started work on this movie in 1999, and for five years of time, the visuals of this movie look like the byproduct of a crayon-eating toddler, mixed with delicious oversaturated colours and eye-bleeding contrasts. The sets are ridiculous, the way it's shot is messy, and it feels more like if a Spy Kids movie were done even more horribly wrong than they were.
I'm giving this a 4 because it could use something closer to the first, and it's not as terrible as a Friedberg-Seltzer movie or the like.
And I was right. Ten years later I watched this in it's entirety.
Does it deserve it's 1.9 rating, however? To be honest, it's actually better than the first in the fact that it doesn't have a dated 90's feel to it, and the bad, corny jokes are... at least a bit better, even though there's even more than the first.
Quick overview of the plot: Old man wants to run brainwashing TV station but a bunch of babies stop him. That bit of a plot alone is so mind- numbing; but in all truth, the true demographic [4-8 year olds] don't go for detail. To make up for it, adult jokes are dispersed cringingly.
With a 20 million dollar budget, half-baked special effects are thrown everywhere, tinted with mediocre lip-syncing. They started work on this movie in 1999, and for five years of time, the visuals of this movie look like the byproduct of a crayon-eating toddler, mixed with delicious oversaturated colours and eye-bleeding contrasts. The sets are ridiculous, the way it's shot is messy, and it feels more like if a Spy Kids movie were done even more horribly wrong than they were.
I'm giving this a 4 because it could use something closer to the first, and it's not as terrible as a Friedberg-Seltzer movie or the like.