The first time I saw the trailer for Babies I thought it looked like the perfect high-concept doc: Pick four picturesque and far-flung parts of the world and film one baby in each for a year. Who could resist that? I thought. Well, apparently the answer is: me. Not that I hated the movie. Who could hate all those adorably intense little people? But it started feeling redundant long before it ended—and it’s only 80 minutes long.
Babies is a Benetton ad come to life, an impeccably art-directed vision of a multicultural utopia. It was sweet enough to keep me entertained for a while, appealing to that baby love the Talking Heads were singing about, but the charm wears off before the end credits roll.
Here’s my review of it for TimeOFF.
This article was originally published on The House Next Door.
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