It seems that toddlers are taking over.

30 days. That's how long is left until The Babies hits cinemas in the United States. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, let me explain in so many words. It's an eighty minute documentary movie, with very little or no dialogue, which is following four newborn babies in four different places on earth, over a period of twelve months. Still can't grasp it? Well check out the video.

It's being released on the weekend of Mothers Day (which is different in America), and is already getting some level of publicity, with USAToday talking about it. But, how much resonance can this sort of film give to people. Sure, I watched the trailer and smiled at it- everyone does, but then when I realised there are another seventy-something minutes of footage, I thought twice. After you understand and embrace the cultural differences which surround the babies' lives, there's not much more to it. You might as well stick a webcam on the child's crib and get the occasional camera to follow it around; you'll get the same thing- newborns being newborns. It's Big Brother for infants, really. One thing is certain: there'll be a lot of movie-going females "ahhh-ing" every ten seconds.

But, the baby madness doesn't end there. Reports have confirmed that Look Who's Talking, the 1980's film in which John Travolta and Kirstie Alley are parents to a talking baby (voiced by Bruce Willis, of all things), is to be remade in a modern day version. Have we really lost the ability to write movies from scratch, or has the remake wagon gone spiralling out of control?

However, the worst baby news of all- an advert from the Superbowl is to become a movie.

If you watched the event, you may have seen the E-Trade commercial, which again has talking toddlers "being grown-ups". A movie is to to be created about these babies on "a mission to make their way across the playground". I know publicity-stunts when I see them, but I do have a funny feeling, seeing the way Hollywood is churning out junk, that this may very well actually happen. On a side note, the company was sued by Lindsay Lohan for the baby, called "Lindsay" in the advert, being referred to as a "milkaholic". She feels that her "likeness, name, characterization, and personality' without permission, violating her right of privacy" and she feels that her name invokes a "single-name" awareness, like Oprah or Cher, Madonna, etc.

Only in America.