Reception
The film was a box office flop and is considered to be one of the worst ever made, only receiving $9 million from its $20 million budget. Ratings were universally negative. Rotten Tomatoes ranked the film 6th in the 100 worst reviewed films of the 2000s, with a rating of 0%. The final consensus on the site is: "Superbabies continues to prove that bad jokes still aren't funny when coming out of a toddler's mouth." As of January 2013, it is ranked #2 in the IMDb's "Bottom 100", with a score of 1.5 out of 10. Critic Steve Blance, in his Top Ten Worst Movies Review, called the film "the worst I have ever witnessed" and also noted that he would "rather be tortured for twenty-years with searing iron than have to sit through even a minute of this again." Ebert & Roeper gave the film a two thumbs down.
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