1/2/2023 0 Comments Baby movie![]() They arrive on this mortal coil (Shakespeare) from that level "higher than the sphery chime'' (Milton), and we expect their speech to flow in "heavenly eloquence'' (Dryden). ![]() Wouldn't you expect them to sound a little like Jesus, or Aristotle? Or at least Wayne Dwyer? But no. After all, according to the theory, they come into this world "trailing clouds of glory'' (Wordsworth again: The man can write). There's only one way the movie might have worked: if the babies had been really, really smart. And when the babies do things that babies don't do (hurl adults into the air, for example), we lose all track of the story while trying to spot the visual trick. The nauseating sight of little Sly on a disco floor, dressed in the white suit from "Saturday Night Fever'' and dancing to "Stayin' Alive,'' had me pawing under my seat for the bag my Subway Gardenburger came in, in case I felt the sudden need to recycle it.Įvery time the babies talk to one another, something weird happens to make it look like their lips are in synch (think of talking frogs in TV commercials). The movie involves a genius baby named Sly, who escapes from the lab and tries to organize fellow babies in revolt. This is an old idea, beautifully expressed by Wordsworth, who said, "Heaven lies about us in our infancy.'' If I could quote the whole poem instead of completing this review, believe me, we'd all be happier. ![]() Her theory is based on the Tibetan belief that children have Universal Knowledge until they begin to speak-when their memories fade away. She funds a secret underground lab run by Christopher Lloyd to crack the code. The plot: Kathleen Turner plays a woman with a theory that babies can talk to one another. ![]()
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