OK Some people said it was a bad adaptation of the book. I've never read the book. But as a film in itself, it's pretty cool. Entertaining.Funny. Weird.I saw this movie by chance & with no preconceptions, ... And I love it!Paul Bettany is excellent. As is the bloke from 'My Family'. It also has one the cleverest 'drug induced' effects from the audience's point of view, I've ever seen in a movie. (... only Human Traffic came close)I do wish they'd release it here on DVD. They should also release the movie's soundtrack. - Some excellent beats produced by Mr Meat Katie.Don't avoid the movie. Check it out.

Suffice to say that - despite the odd ludicrous panegyric to his soi disant "abilities" posted here - the director of this inept, odious tosh hasn't made a film since. Well that is excellent news as far as I'm concerned.Dead Babies has all of the bile of its creator, but lacks the wit and technical proficiency that make Martin Amis the novelist readable.When will the British film industry wake up and realise that if it wants to regain the status it once had it should stop producing rubbish like this and make something real people will actually want to watch?Avoid like the plague.

A terrible storyline (Amis at his worst), pointless and self-conscious 'decadence', obvious shock tactics and patchy acting make this film (rather like "Rancid Aluminium") embody everything that went wrong with the much-vaunted British film revival. The humour is, at best, limp, and the pretentiousness of the whole set-up (including some kind of "internet terrorist group" - ooh, how contemporary) really begins to grate.Final summary - a half-baked attempt to be 'edgy' that does no-one any favours. Still, it's always a pleasure to see Katy Carmichael on screen...

When I sat down, I wasnt sure what to expect. I got swept up quickly in all the characters and their mental problems (a full cast of neurotics)! The conceptualists side theme, wove in rather well to become the main theme. The writing is good, and i pondered what kind of mind thought up some of the scenes. (the doll scene in particular!) The only thing that bothered me was the american accents, were they real or did i just imagine them slipping from time to time?what better way to deal with people who dont deal with life? an interesting movie, worth a view, especially if you're of the gen x generation.