That shouldn’t surprise anyone, though. You might imagine that Baby Geniuses, abysmal and desperate as it was, set the bar so prohibitively low that it would be impossible for a sequel to shimmy under it. Check out our lists of the best (and worst) movies of... Get a list of the best movie and TV titles recently added (and coming... What to Watch Now on HBO Max and the HBO App, Music title data, credits, and images provided by, Movie title data, credits, and poster art provided by. "Baby Geniuses 2" is a truly odious film, even given its intended audience. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. While still a boy in the 1940s, Kahuna drank a potion his scientist father invented that stopped the aging process and gave him magical powers. Superbabies was followed nearly a decade later by 2013’s Baby Geniuses and the Mystery of the Crown Jewels, 2014’s Baby Geniuses and the Treasures of Egypt, and most recently, 2016’s Baby Geniuses and the Space Baby. Imagine the best feeling in the world. The first Baby Geniuses, released in 1999, was one of the most inane, humorless, ill-conceived, poorly acted comedies of the year. As for anyone else who may experience a sudden need for therapy after sitting through this, you're on your own. © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. So while others came of age and fell in love and started families, Kahuna retained the image and attitude of a sassy Dennis the Menace type deep into his golden years. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. But he also boasts a fascinating, if violently uneven, filmography that includes nadirs like the Gene Hackman/Dan Aykroyd Multiple Personality Disorder-themed buddy-cop comedy Loose Cannons, the influential cult classic slasher Black Christmas, and most impressively and surprisingly, the Yuletide perennial A Christmas Story. With Jon Voight, Scott Baio, Vanessa Angel, Skyler Shaye. To paraphrase the old aphorism, it takes a village to raise — or in this case, portray — a child. Please try again. It’s less a conventional kiddie sequel than a Nazi-saturated, wildly inappropriate waking nightmare that singlehandedly set CGI back decades and brought out the incompetent amateur in a veteran filmmaker. Jon Voight is a fine actor. You can't beat the price either! Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2019, Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2019, Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2016, Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2014. All rights reserved. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. More than once, one of the film’s diaper-wearing thespians will violate one of the core rules of film and look directly into the camera’s lens in a way that only adds to the sense that the world as we know it is deteriorating into pure insanity.