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the big mean grownups who kidnap babies and conduct experiments on them in this awful movie masquerading as Look Who's Talking on steroids. The premise is a tired one: baby-talk is actually a pre-language language (if that makes sense) and babies know the secret of life... that is, until they "cross over" and begin speaking adult words. Peter MacNicholl costars as the good guy owner/operator of a super-nursery devoted to studying the baby language. Lots of Babe-like computer animation and some uninspired voice-over work can't save the hackneyed story of a baby who escapes the lab and turns the tables on the bad guys. There are a couple of cute moments with the kids (especially the "daddy" scene), and Kim Cattrall is entertaining as MacNicoll's devoted wife and partner, but the totality is too saccharine and silly to recommend.
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Rachel (Emily Bergl), a high school misfit, possesses something that sets her farther apart from her school mates than your regular run-of-the-mill misfit. Thanks to shared blood with the infamous Carrie White, Rachel has special powers that allow her to move things with her mind... and kill people. That's the tenuous link between Brian De Palma's Carrie -- a flawed, though seminal horror picture -- and The Rage: Carrie 2. Both girls -- Carrie White and Rachel Lang -- have the same father, which leaves us wondering if this unimaginative link will fuel further sequels. MGM/UA wouldn't mind latching onto this one as a franchise. De Palma's work, while not visionary, was visually creative and iconizing. Everyone remembers the galvanizing prom scene, which quickly became a chaotic, split-screen bloodbath. Rage is a tired retread of '90s teen movies -- Scream by way of Varsity Blues. The high school jocks score with girls, keeping point totals as part of a perverted game. When a student kills herself as a result, school officials and the sheriff start asking questions. Rachel's caught in the middle -- she knows the truth about her best friend's death, and is threatening to tell. (Jawbreaker, anyone?) The ending doesn't make much sense -- given what happens at the DA's office, why pursue Rachel? Of course, so she can cause a Carrie-like conflagration with several Friday the 13th style deaths. Amy Irving, the sole
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