Baby Geniuses

Once at the research facility, Sylvester goes to the control room to set the robots from the theme park on the lab scientists.

When the Bobbins return home, their natural daughter Carrie tells her father that the children are in Dr. Kinder's research facility.

Carrie, their sister, doesn't reveal anything (just giving her father a Sly smile) because adults are never meant to know their secrets.

[6] However Clark changed his mind when Voight and Paul showed him a one minute proof of concept film they had done with some babies sitting around a table in a management meeting like they were executives with their mouths morphed to appear as if they were talking.

[6] Clark eventually rewrote the script, jettisoning that plot completely in favor of the corporate intrigue angle desiring to go with a more realistic presentation of the concept.

[6] The film's concept was conceived by producer Steven Paul, who was inspired by a moment in his life when he saw two babies communicating together at a Barneys New York.

[6] Baby Geniuses was panned by critics and audiences alike for its flat direction, awkward acting, overreliance on toilet humor and shoddy special effects.

Its final consensus reads: "Flat direction and actors who look embarrassed to be onscreen make Baby Geniuses worse than the premise suggests.

"[13] The film received a normalized score of 7 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 14 critics, indicating the reviews as "overwhelming dislike".

When they're presented as miniature adults (on greeting cards, in TV commercials or especially in this movie), there is something so fundamentally wrong that our human instincts cry out in protest.

He compared the film to Look Who's Talking, calling it a "step beyond" for its use of computer-animated mouths "instead of using facial gestures to get implied meanings across."

[19] Although the film was not received well by critics, its commercial success on home video prompted a sequel, Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2.

Jon Voight, who was previously co-executive producer for Baby Geniuses, stars in the film as the antagonist, Bill Biscane.