Baby Geniuses: A Horror Film In Disguise

According to a 1997 NY Times article “The most difficult bits of action are performed by a 15-year-old midget stunt double and an 8-year-old star gymnast who put on latex baby-face masks when the script calls for leaping and jumping.” Yikes 😬

CUNEIFORM ISN'T A LANGUAGE! This hurt me so much, you can't "speak" cuneiform, it's the earliest form of writing and is essentially just complicated tally marks, you can't even really READ it, you're just like "oh these shapes mean there are 17 sheep in that flock" THAT'S the extent of what this system of writing can convey.

I like how they just refer to "the secrets of the universe" as if that means literally anything

I love the idea of a plumber genuinely asking a 2 year old to hand him a wrench and expecting them to do it

Why is no one talking about the fact that the mom's name is "Robbin Bobbins"?

my mom showed me this movie when i was six and the babies freaked me out so much i refused to be near my 3-year-old brother for like three weeks

Honestly seeing Dickie dressed like a Gen Z twitch streamer from 2022 in a movie from 1999 is like witnessing someone deliver a prophecy

That whole baby named Sylvester conversation took me down a mental path that ended with me trying to picture Sylvester Stallone as a baby. I blame you for that trauma Kurtis.

Kids named after their one trait like “Sly”, “Wit”, “Kurtis Conner Fan”

I still don’t understand, they are literally babies, they are small af, I don’t care how smart they are. Overpower them.

Favorite fact about this film is that the twins were played by triplets. I always thought that was so weird. Normally twin babies for a single character, so naturally two-baby must be THREE-baby!

can i just say during the whole nasty baby “call me” scene...... the baby in the stroller has a cigar in her hand??????? 17:41

11:30 Did the movie really say that babies speak cuneiform? Cuneiform is a script that was used to write down languages and not its own language. That is like saying men have the ability to speak comic sans.

Jesus Christ I can’t believe I watched this as a child and was like “oh yeah this is good”

Every time kurtis makes a “______er? I hardly know her!” joke I get a smile that cannot be replicated in any other circumstance

"i dont steal babies from jungle gyms" same energy as "i dont have feelings for Christi North"

Baby geniuses copy-pasted laugh: exists Neil Breen explosion sound effect: finally a worthy opponent

"I don't steal babies from jungle gyms!" hmm that sounds like something someone who steals babies from jungle gyms would say

i'm an english as a second language teacher and had to study a LOT of language acquisition science in school, and this movie was SO CLOSE to actually talking about something real! fun fact, babies actually have a truly insane capability for language and actively lose that capability as they age. a newborn can distinguish between more sounds than any adult on the planet, but by around 11 months will lose that ability and stop making those distinctions (i.e. a baby whose family speaks arabic as a native language would stop being able to distinguish between "p" and "b"). there is so, SO much more to talk about when it comes to children and their innate language skills (shoutout to my guy noam chomsky father of modern linguistic theory) and yet this movie just made shit up!!

There are real people who beleive in the "babies hold universal knowledge that they forget by the time they grow older" thing... I see it on tiktok all the time