Babies

This is a film about babies, from the perspective of babies. If you don't like babies, you're shit out of luck. You shouldn't have started watching a movie called "Babies."

Befitting its title, it features babies.

First of all, not a baby person. Watched it with my mother and at a few times, particularly one girl's frustration with a book..."I CAN"T READ" we laughed harder than i can remember.

Not bad but not particularly great either. I think how much you enjoy this film depends on how much you find yourself entertained by young children. Frankly I'm not a parent and I don't find babies all that amazing. However, even with no narration or very much dialog this movie kept me watching. I'd be lying if I found it riveting or really fascinating though. To those that love cute babies though, this will certainly be worth a watch.

A kind of nature documentary that looks at the human species the way another documentary might look at apes: a human-nature documentary, if you like. There is no commentary (nor are there subtitles for foreign tongues), so that we're left to draw our own conclusions. Inasmuch, however, as the evidence is highly anecdotal and arbitrary, any conclusions are probably better left undrawn. And the procession of Kodak Moments adds up to little more than a glossy coffee-table movie

Who knew that watching babies for 80 minutes with no narration or dialogue would be entertaining? I liked that there was no narration, and the viewer is able to make their own conclusions about the behaviour of each of the 4 babies. Fascinating.

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Some anthropological value, nothing revelatory but a cute comparison of different child-rearing norms.

Oh my god, babies!

I'm just an old softy for this kind of subject.

izlerken zevk aldigin en samimi yapimlardan birisiydi diyebilirim rahatlikle bunu izlememe de neden olan aliye bir kez daha tesekkurler. ama basrolde olmasa da favorim mogol bebegin abisi olan firlama elemandi tam canavar :))

If you can watch all 17 seconds of the "surprised kitten" video on YouTube without even a twinge of longing to crush said kitten with love, skip Babies. If you find yourself clicking "replay" to watch the kitten again, pre-order your ticket now.

Well photographed look at the early lives of four babies in various locations suffers from a lack of any kind of focus. The point seems to be to show a snapshot and it succeeds, but it's just not terribly compelling. The babies' personalities are charming enough to make it worth sitting through but it's not weighty enough to be considered very good.

A fine story of us. The focus was on babies and there for there's practically any talking. A fine choice from director. Which kid was a "winner"? The African one, of course, because nobody prevent him to get the best building blocks for the future. Including the food which was mainly mother's milk. A cute story which I adored.

If the term "baby porn" didn't have such terrible connotations I'd use it here. An hour and a half of babies doing shit that is designed for girls who like to look at babies. Babies are dumb as hell though, you can take their candy but it's shitty baby candy damn that sucks

Four different babies from San Francisco, Japan, Mongolia, and Namibia do baby things for a couple of hours. Unfortunately I'm not a parent, never plan to be, so babies don't do much for me and after a good 15 minutes their "laughable cuteness" turns into repeated annoyance. Blah.

Cute, Fun, and Unique, a nice take on looking at other cultures through the eyes of those first meeting it.

Sweet and innocent

I love how it's pretty much a silent film, it seems like the perfect choice for a film about babies. And, well, babies, so obviously it's very very sweet.

Beautifully filmed movie following 4 babies from different parts of the world. Not much talking but just watching the babies in action is highly interesting.

seemed to run longer the advertized 1 hr, 19 minutes.......wasn't gaga over it, but all the babies are cute, especially Bayar........

Or really: "Parents." There isn't much here beyond infants having their needs met in various ways. What authorial voice there is, through editing alone, seems possibly smug and dismissive of western overparenting, but it's a charge of which we're probably guilty, on the whole. So the kids are cute, the parents do their thing, and I'm not sure it's worth watching once you have kids of your own.

"An aesthetic exercise that gets at no deeper truth than "babies are basically alike no matter the culture."" - Lauren Wissot

If you are thinking that this documentary is only for parents, guess again--it's about what we all went through in the first year of life. Everyone should be able to relate to babies--we were all there, at one point. We can recognize their struggles, accomplishments, joy and frustration. Even with four different cultures, it was the same for every child. In a way, this doc shows what it is to be human.

An interesting documentary on different cultures and their child-raising methods. We see babies from Namibia, Mongolia, Japan, and the USA through the eyes of stationary camera lenses. The best way to describe the tone of this film is cute... how else would describe watching babies for 80 minutes?!? That being said, it's fairly entertaining although not completely engaging. Babies won't have a profound effect on you, unless you're expecting or have a child around the same age.