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Lacking in any wit or value, 25 May 2003
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bob the moo from Birmingham, UK
Deep in the headquarters of a baby supplies corporation is a secret lab that
is studying the communication of babies in the belief that they have a
secret language and that the uninfluenced mind of a baby holds the secrets
of the universe. However one baby is giving them problems � Sly, who was
separated from his twin at birth and put in the lab while his brother went
out to live in a normal home. On escaping the lab, Sly flees to the local
mall where he meets his twin and gets accidentally taken home by Robin while
his brother is mistakenly taken back to the lab. With the two brothers now
under threat, the babies in and outside the lab plan an audacious plot to
bring down the corporation.
I was on a ferry going to Northern Ireland and, just as it was docking I
caught literally the opening two minutes of this film before I had to leave
my cabin and get my car. I was taken by the potential of the film and it
stuck in my head. Skip forward about a year and the film was on terrestrial
TV so I sat to watch it. Sadly the film not only failed to turn a silly
idea into a tongue in cheek comedy but it also failed to do anything worth
watching. The sheer absurdity of the idea could have worked had the film
given us plenty of jokes for adults as well as mocking itself as it went.
However it didn't go anywhere and even appeared to take itself
seriously!
Although the baby chats are occasionally amusing it is mostly unfunny. Kids
may enjoy seeing babies fight and run around but I doubt the age group this
is aimed at will have the slightest idea what is going on. With the
exception of the opening 2 minutes there is almost nothing that adults will
enjoy here. I can't put it any clearer � add a bit of knowing humour and
this might have worked � as it is it is just awful.
The adult cast should hang their heads in shame � they clearly hoped for
another child/adult hit like `Look Whose Talking' but they ended up with the
sort of film that belongs in a diaper. Turner, Lloyd, Cattrall and MacNicol
all could have been much more fun but instead all play it seriously and thus
kill any fun it may have been. The kids are OK and somehow managed to be
manipulated by the director to do what the film demands, however, it is
obvious that the film needed them to be `cute' which they spectacularly fail
to be. The special effects used to move their mouths gives them a real
creepy look and the way that more complex moves are performed by adults with
the baby heads superimposed on their bodies is, well, just stupid looking
and a little unnerving.
Overall I do believe that with some really strong adult humour (see Toy
Story) and some better adult performances to inject some fun into it, that
this could have been a better film. As it is, it is just awful and even if
my kids begged I wouldn't watch it again � it would be for their own
good!
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