I finally saw the movie Babel, and I must say that I was very disappointed. It definitely wasn't anything Oscar-worthy, but for the big names attached to it. I would try and refrain from spoiling the ending...but there is no ending to spoil. 

Still, I'll try not to give too much information away, but basically here's what happened: A husband and wife are vacationing in Morocco when two kids playing with a gun shoot the wife on a tour bus (if you didn't ascertain that from the preview of the movie then you need your IQ checked). Those kids' stupid decision to shoot at tourists leads to the nanny of the husband and wife's children to make a stupid decision, which dominoes into one long, boring, overrated motion picture. Really, for a movie whose title refers to the confusion of languages, everyone communicated quite well. There was miscommunication, but that had nothing to do with the language, only the stupidity of the decisions the characters made. The movie should have been called "Why America is better than your Country," because the other cultures they portrayed did not look like fun places to live.  Oh, and what was with the deaf Asian kid who had sexual turrets? I finally just started skipping through those scenes because they were both painful and disturbing to watch.

And typical of a film trying to win an Oscar, every scene was about two minutes too long. The movie could have been 60 minutes shorter without all the extra footage. The scenery wasn't even beautiful (I think that's why Lord of the Rings got a away with being so long is because of the scenery).

I know the director was trying to make some big social point with the movie...but it failed to translate onto the silver screen. Maybe that's what the title really meant...that we wouldn't understand the movie.