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| Directed by | Bob Clark |
| Produced by | Steven Paul |
| Written by | Steven Paul (story) Gregory Poppen |
| Starring | Jon Voight Scott Baio Vanessa Angel |
| Music by | Misha Segal |
| Cinematography | Maher Maleh |
| Editing by | Stan Cole |
| Distributed by | Triumph Films |
| Release date(s) | August 27, 2004 |
| Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | Germany United Kingdom United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20 million |
| Box office | $9,448,644 |
Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (also known as Baby Geniuses 2: Superbabies) is a 2004 comedy film and the last to be directed by Bob Clark before his death. It is a sequel to the 1999 film Baby Geniuses (1999) and like its predecessor, it received universally negative reviews from film critics, earning "0%" positive rating on review website Rotten Tomatoes. One such critic remarked, "Superbabies has no redeeming qualities."[1] The film was distributed by Triumph Films.
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Following on from the plot of the last movie, four babies can communicate with each other using 'baby talk', and have knowledge of many secrets. The baby geniuses become involved in a scheme by media mogul Bill Biscane (Jon Voight), later revealed to be known as Kane, who kidnaps children everywhere. Helping the geniuses is a legendary superbaby named Kahuna (he became powerful due to drinking a special chemical, much to the envy of his brother Kane), who stops Biscane's plots and saves children from being kidnapped by Biscane and his minions. He joins up with several other babies in an attempt to stop Biscane, who intends to use a state-of-the-art satellite system to control the world's population by brainwashing them and forcing people to not be active and watch TV the rest of their lives.
The film was a box office bomb and is considered to be one of the worst films ever made, only receiving $9 million from its $20 million budget. Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film 6th in the 100 worst reviewed films of the 2000s, with a rating of 0%. As of December 10, 2011, it is ranked #1 in the IMDb's "Bottom 100", with a score of 1.5 out of 10. Critic Steve Blance, in his Top Ten Worst Movies Review, called the film "the worst I have ever witnessed" and also noted that he would "rather be tortured for twenty-years with searing iron than have to sit through even a minute of this again." Ebert & Roeper gave the film a two thumbs down.
The film was nominated for four Golden Raspberry Awards including Worst Picture, Worst Director, Worst Supporting Actor (Jon Voight) and Worst Screenplay.
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