Amazon.com video review:
When babies babble or draw, adults jokingly say they know what the baby
is
trying to communicate. What if a clinic found that these babblings and
doodles were actually very intelligent responses or scribbling of an
ancient form of communication? Well, it seems that all it would create is this
tepid comedy. Kathleen Turner runs the clinic that believes babies have
"universal knowledge" before they learn to speak (and dumb down). What she
plans to do with this knowledge is never really understood, but know this:
the plans are evil. The secret lives of babies have been pretty adorably
filmed previously with Look Who's Talking, but here the babies talk and
move via visual effects like the animals in Babe. They also karate
chop adults and talk about such adorable things as "diaper gravy." By the
time the story (a variation of The Parent Trap) heats up (relatively
speaking), there is not much left to engage us except some cute babies that just
look odd as effects take over their mouths and movements. --Doug
Thomas
