The Worst Film Ever

How sad is this?

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

This pointless movie tells the story of Robin Harris(A well-known African American stand-up comedian) and his misadventures at an amusement park with three kids so bratty I keep thinking they're like Angelica Pickels from the Rugrats, only 3 times brattier. If I didn't know any better, I swear this movie was created by the same people who made a Disney TV series called the Proud Family. Does the character artwork look familiar to you? Although the animation looked decent, the movie absolutely makes no sense whatsoever with its pointless scenes and songs so forgettable I swear that they were written by the same morons who did the song writing for Tom and Jerry the Movie, A Troll in Central Park, and that god-awful Titanic the Legend Goes On. I mean, what's up with them?! Were they traumatized by Singin' in the Rain(Not likely, because I happened to love Singin' in the Rain^_^) and A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum(Another great movie) and thought those movies were so bad that in revenge they wrote crappy musical numbers?! Man alive! It must be a freaking epidemic of god-awful animated musicals! And don't get me started on the tag-line for the movie! "It's Animation"? That's the best tag-line you can come up with?! "It's Animation"?!! If it were up to me, the tag-line would be like this: "It's God-Awful Animation with a God-Awful Plot". Don't watch this movie because like Tom and Jerry, Titanic: The Legend Goes On, and A Troll in Central Park, the musical numbers in Bebe's Kids are pointless and hopeless.

Because so many children's animated films are actually only thinly disguised morality lessons and/or merchandising gimmicks, it's refreshing to find an acerbic, often tasteless cartoon feature willing to promote a little healthy skepticism instead. The basic premise, suggested by what had been a familiar routine by the late stand-up comedian Robin Harris, might resemble typical Saturday morning TV fodder: the gruff but (almost) lovable Harris (a kindred spirit to W.C. Fields) is conned into chaperoning a trio of pint-sized troublemakers to Fun World, a local amusement park. But underneath the rap soundtrack padding and heartfelt, homeopathic preaching about the virtues of self-esteem is a good deal of subversive, post-Rodney King cynicism. Fun World itself is analogous to White America in the 1990s, complete with secret police, remote surveillance, and a robot Richard Nixon (sounding not unlike Jimmy Stewart). The film was originally planned as a live-action comedy, but it probably works better as animation, where the cartoon exaggeration can be an advantage. Favorite character: little Baby Pee-Wee, with a voice "like a hundred packs of cigarettes" and a constant cloud of flies around his sagging diaper.

"Bebe's Kids" demonstrates how hard it really is to make an animated feature; I don't just mean in terms of drawing, etc, but in terms of concept. The Hudlin brothers had originally planned to do a live-action movie about the comedian Robin Harris's characters of Bebe's kids, but after his death they decided to go the animated route - but from the finished result you wonder why they even bothered.Robin meets the lovely Jamika (at a funeral!) and makes a date with her and her son for the weekend, but finds the deal involves bringing along her friend's children - Bebe herself never appears - and the three kids are a lot rougher than Jamika's kid. In addition to having to go with them all to the extortionately-priced amusement park where most of the movie takes place, Robin also has to cope with his ex-wife and her friend (who's convinced that they'll get back together), and it must be said that the parts of the movie involving him are much better than when it involves the title characters.Not only are Bebe's kids (in addition to lacking any personality) much less sympathetic and much less funny than Robin, but they have to shoulder the blame for the movie self-destructing when they break into a secret underground section of the park; cue battles against robots and messages delivered with all the subtlety of a Mack truck. The movie wants to appeal to both adults and children, but never comes off as anything - you can tell the Hudlins weren't too experienced with animation, and they've stayed away from it since then. Thank heaven.

Bebe's kids is truly an imaginatively funny film. It made me laugh while having surprisingly interesting and funny characters. The movie didn't try to win our attention, it just won it on its own. Very fun film. I especially love the jive-talking in the women's restroom. I almost died laughing.