Release: March 29, 2011
Film: Baby Geniuses (1999)
This review contains examples of:
- Broken Record: The four uses of "diaper gravy" with no change and two goons doing the exact attempted subversion of a clearly set-up Groin Attack (even the same line about how this looks like a bad movie) make The Critic angry.
- Enhance Button: A variation is raged against by The Critic, mentioning that if "computer interpretation" of a baby playing with a toy piano is supposed to reveal the music to be "as complex as a symphony", then someone farting could be similarly "interpreted" into sounding like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- Formula-Breaking Episode: A couple oddities about this episode: The Critic is in a different location than usual (an anime convention), and he doesn't speak outside of two instances; instead, he does an interior monologue.
- Heroic BSoD: The Critic is in this mode throughout the entire review. Including a constant Thousand-Yard Stare and keeping on staring at a wall because it "takes nothing, and gives him little"… several times.
- Inner Monologue: The review is delivered in this manner as the Critic wanders around the anime con in a daze from seeing this movie.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: "Booze. I must have booze." (takes a nip from a hip flask)
- Jump Scare: The Baby Co. baby Robot getting a yelling face and an acompanying scream.
- Little "No": The Critic's response to one of the babies dancing in a disco outfit.
- Precision F-Strike / Atomic F-Bomb / Take That, Audience!: At one point, the Critic goes to one of his panels and shouts, "FUCK YOU AAAAAAALLLLL-" to the crowd. He does this again at the very last scene.
- Robo Sexual: The Critic's
belief that this is the reason why Christopher Lloyd's character makes the computer do an Info Dump on "Operation TwinComp" even if it's something he should have known very well already. - Shout-Out:
- The Critic compares a giant robot baby the "lovechild of André the Giant and Gollum." A later scene with the Baby Co. robots rampaging also gets The Lord of the Rings music added in the background.
- A scene with Christopher Lloyd hearing an Info Dump by a computer gets a snip of Doc Brown saying "Great Scott, this is heavy".
- A scene with Peter MacNicol's character hearing his baby daughter's secret language with clarity is overdubbed with Vigo the Carpathian's commanding.
- The Critic says that he'd prefer to see a Super Bowl babies beer commercial to the movie. He also says that the special effects of Star Trek weren't as goofy as the ones used on the film.
- Subverted Catchphrase: "I remember it… but just barely".
- Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: The Critic complains on one point about a Baby Co. robot having a functional laser gun, comparing it to someone giving a park Mickey Mouse free access to an Uzi (and properly accompanying picture).
