Baby Geniuses (1999)

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General		Extras
Category	Comedy	Dolby Digital Trailer-City Theatrical Trailer-1.33:1 non-16x9, Dolby Digital 2.0 Featurette-Behind The Scenes Featurette-Special Effects Biographies-Cast & Crew
Rating
Year Of Production	1999
Running Time	90:52
RSDL / Flipper	No/No	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Menu
Region Coding	2,4	Directed By	Bob Clark
Studio Distributor	Sony Pictures Home Entertain	Starring	Kathleen Turner Christopher Lloyd Kim Cattrall Peter MacNicol Ruby Dee
Case	Brackley-Trans-No Lip
RPI	$36.95	Music	Paul Zaza

Video		Audio
Pan & Scan/Full Frame	None	English Dolby Digital 5.1 (448Kb/s)
Widescreen Aspect Ratio	2.35:1
16x9 Enhancement
Video Format	576i (PAL)
Original Aspect Ratio	2.35:1	Miscellaneous
Jacket Pictures	No
Subtitles	English Polish Czech Hungarian Hindi Hebrew Turkish Danish Swedish Finnish Norwegian Greek Dutch	Smoking	No
		Annoying Product Placement	No
		Action In or After Credits	No

    Sound silly? Well, it is. The plot is basically a vehicle for some clever special effects. For me, the novelty of babies speaking like adults wore off a while ago given such films as Look Who's Talking and all its sequels. Having an entire movie based upon this was something I tired of quickly. However, the movie is obviously aimed at a young audience, and I am sure they will find it all amusing. I am sure I don't know what the lead characters were thinking when they signed the dotted line for this one.

Video

    The transfer is presented in an aspect ratio of 2.35:1 and it is 16x9 enhanced.

    Nothing much to report out of the ordinary for CTS. The picture is uniformly sharp. Shadow detail is very good. There is no low-level noise.

    The colours are vibrant and clean, with no oversaturation. Skin tones are rendered realistically.

    There were no MPEG artefacts of any kind during this movie, which given the length the film is, should not be a surprise. There were no film-to-video artefacts. Film artefacts were few and far between, however there is the odd fleck now and then which does look out of place given the youth of this movie.

Audio

    Dialogue was at all times clear and easy to understand. ADR voice looping was at time distracting, however it should not be a concern to the target audience.

    There were at times minor problems with audio sync, and this falls singularly on the above mentioned vocal re-recording. Generally however, sync was perfect.

    The scoring by Paul Zaza is light and peppy, and very well recorded. It has a nice rich sound, and suits the onscreen action.

    The surround channels were used frequently, and sometimes superbly. Of particular note is the helicopter during the opening scenes which flies around the room - always impressive. The surrounds were generally given to creating ambience and adding depth to the soundfield.

    The subwoofer had little use apart from helping fill the bottom end of the score at times.

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Dolby Digital Trailer - City

U.S. Theatrical Trailer (1:58)

    Presented in 1.33:1 (4x3) and Dolby Digital 2.0

Featurette - Behind The Scenes (3:06)

    This is merely a collection of scenes from the film. There is NO behind the scenes information. Just filling for the extras list.

Featurette - Special Effects (1:30)

    Again, of very little value. A snippet of information is given.

    The video quality is very good.

    The audio is very good.

    The list of extras seems more impressive than it actually is. The featurettes should have been left out, as they have nothing to contribute at all.

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