Baby Genius (1999)

Original title

Baby Geniuses

Directed by

Bob Clark

Genre

comedy film, science fiction film, children's film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

PG

Rating

4.1 of 10 from 420 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Babies with secret intelligence communicate with each other and try to outsmart adults. A scientist wants to unlock their secrets for his own gain.

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What happens

Baby Geniuses is a 1999 American family comedy film directed by Bob Clark and written by Clark and Greg Michael, from a story by Clark, Steven Paul, Francisca Matos, and Robert Grasmere. It stars Kathleen Turner, Christopher Lloyd, Kim Cattrall, Peter MacNicol, and Ruby Dee. The film is the first full-length feature to use computer-generated imagery for the synthesis of human visual speech. 2D warping techniques were used to digitally animate the mouth viseme shapes of the babies which were originally shot with their mouths closed. The viseme shapes were sampled from syllables uttered by the babies on the set. Baby Geniuses was released by Sony Pictures Releasing on March 12, 1999. The film was almost universally panned by critics, who lambasted its acting, humor, special effects, writing, and directing, but it grossed $36.5 million worldwide against a production budget of $12 million. In 2004, it was followed by a sequel, Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2, which was a box office bomb, and received even worse critical reviews, receiving a nomination for Worst Picture at the 25th Golden Raspberry Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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