Superstupid: Baby Geniuses 2

Babies are cute -- no doubt about it. But when they become the sugary-sweet, smarty-pants protagonists of a plotless movie, that's when I draw the line.\nI have to admit, I've never seen the original "Baby Geniuses." If the movie was twice as good as the sequel, though, it would still stink more than a 2-day-old diaper. The plot of "Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2," frankly, doesn't make a lot of sense. Apparently, a little kid named Kahuna goes around saving other little kids from the big, bad grown-ups. The biggest, baddest grown-up of them all is Bill Biscane, played by Jon Voight. (Why a talented actor like Voight decided to join in this crapfest is beyond me.) \nBiscane is planning to launch a television station that will control the minds of children everywhere. (Part of this plan must be to constantly change his accent from American to vaguely French to vaguely Russian and back again.) Four smart little babies figure out the overly-elaborate plan and help Kahuna save the day. The cuteness factor is through the roof.\nThe children are cute, and I appreciate the fact they can't really say their lines, so the voices are dubbed over. But the bad dubbing, matched with the terribly squeaky little voices of the children, was distracting and highly irritating. The children were terrible actors as well, but I suppose that can be overlooked, considering the kids were only a few years old.\nHowever, the terrible acting of most of the rest of the cast cannot be overlooked. Especially grating was Skyler Shaye, who obviously landed the role because Jon Voight is her godfather. In fact, the little rugrats actually had the edge over Shaye in the acting department. Stan and Jean (played by Scott Baio and Vanessa Angel) weren't much better. They seemed positively happy when they didn't know where their children were. "Oh, the kids are gone? Ha ha, I'm so worried." The babies don't have to be able to act, but surely the adults need to have some skills. \n"Baby Geniuses 2" was not worth the time it took to watch it. There are far more productive things to do rather than to invest an hour and a half into this piece of drivel. Even the possible kitsch factor of talking babies and Scott Baio put together isn't enough to redeem this movie. Go watch the grass grow instead.