Look Who's Talking Now! (1993)

Memorable, crazy movie

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

I got stuck in front of this when it was playing on TV one school holidays. I was surprised it was so entertaining, mainly due to the excellent performance from both kids. I loved the cynical grumpy Mikey and the kind of weird but charmingly askew Julia, so was prepared to put up with the ludicrous plot line and actually managed to sit through the whole thing. The 5 year old adored it. This is a strange entry in the series; fantasy dance sequences! Caution; at the end of the movie the family is menaced by wolves in a forest - this is fairly scary for very young children, and I found it unexpected because the rest of the series has nothing like this in it. Avoid tragic singing miniature children/elves (?) over the end credits AT ALL COSTS.

Call me lame, but I am a sucker for these talking-animal movies that it seems to be the fashion to hate. It is also pretty much a given that we have to hate sequels, just for being sequels. I'm going against the grain here, but that's me.The movie is downright cute. If people want to equate "cute" with "sappy," making it a bad thing, I respond that some movies are supposed to be an escape from reality.This said, I don't like everything about it. I never liked John Travolta's James in the first place. He (the character, I mean) is a hypermacho creep who gives men in general a bad name. His character causes Lysette Anthony's Samantha to lose ground not for her acting, but for something that is not her fault: the writing that fails to answer the question, "So what does she see in him anyway?" Kirstie Alley's Mollie can be annoying too, with her overemotional dramatizing of everything, although the deliberately campy dream sequences redeem things just a touch. If we're going to be melodramatic, at least let's do it on purpose, right? Thank goodness for the children and the dogs to carry the movie. They are the reason for six of the seven stars I've given it. Olympia Dukakis as the now fair-minded, formerly buttinsky grandma, accounts for the seventh.The interplay between the snobby purebred and the streetwise mutt is hysterically funny. "Doggy snacks" to the trainers, who were able to get the dogs to behave on cue with the perfect gestures and facial expressions. More doggy snacks to Danny DeVito and Diane Keaton, the canine voices. David Gallagher and Tabitha Lupien are stellar as Mikey and Julie, and deliver performances as well as or better than anyone can expect at their ages.As for the writing, it isn't all bad. "I never liked this haircut," says Daphne the spoiled poodle. "My butt is freezing!"

OK, yes, I do think we are all a little sick of the Look Who's Talking sequels, even though I did enjoy Look Who's Talking Too, it was just taking a really great concept and not putting the effort into it. Look Who's Talking Now is just plain pathetic on the level that it's more for the kids vs. the adults, I think because they found that Look Who's Talking had a children's love as well as an adult's, because it was just all together a great comedy. With Look Who's Talking Now, we have a more "family friendly" movie with puppies that surprise, surprise talk. Not to mention that the silly plot line that they put in where it seems like the dogs more revolve around the characters instead of the characters we have grown to love.A young cross bred puppy is up for sale and we can hear him talking, he sees Mikey passing by him and begs him to take him home. Mikey however has to hurry past in tow of his mother, and two harsh looking individuals buy the puppy. The puppy manages to escape them and starts his life as a stray. James is a private air pilot working for Samantha, who we see has a crush on him and is always trying to extend the trips to spend more time with him. Mikey tells Santa that he wants a dog for Christmas, James feels the time has come to give Mikey the present he has always wished for and tells his boss Samantha about this. In the meantime, Mollie is a top accountant at her firm but because her salary is so high, she is suddenly fired in order for the firm to save money. Unable to acquire a decent job, Molly gets a job as one of the Elves for the mall Santa for the holiday season. During a visit, Mikey discovers to his horror that that Santa Claus is a fake and becomes upset with disbelief. One day though the dog gets caught by the animal rescue force and taken to a kennel, where several other dogs are kept - presumably also found on the streets. The dog is about to be put to sleep on the same day that James brings Mikey to the kennel to select a dog, overjoyed Mikey bumps into the dog he saw as a pup, and takes an instant liking to him and decides to take him home. When James, Mikey and Rocks the dog get home, they see that Samantha is at their house and has brought over her dog Daphne who is highly trained and she wants James to have it as a present from her. Molly discovers that James had gone and gotten a dog for Mikey without discussing it with them and after a brief argument, they can't take Rocks back to the kennel or he will be put to sleep, and James does not want to offend Samantha by refusing Daphne. And now realize they are stuck with two dogs. And of course these dogs talk as well to narrate the story that Mikey cannot narrate any more.Is Looking Who's Talking Now the worst movie ever? No, not really, it's certainly not terrible, but it's just pointless. It was just a different way of making money off of the franchise. I think that this is a silly movie, but it did have a couple of random laughs here and there, but for the most part it's just silly with the whole story between James and his new boss, Samantha who has a crush on him, more like an obsessive crush where she just throws herself at him, maybe she saw those Welcome Back, Kotter episodes one too many times and was in love with Vinnie Barbarino. But anyways, I wouldn't really recommend this movie to too many people, more for the really young kids who just wanna see really cute puppies, that's about it. This movie doesn't have much to offer except for… puppy love! Oh, you know I had to make a lame joke.2/10

This movie is part of one of the worst set of trilogies ever made where all the movies somehow made it to the theater. This one is quite bad, but at least it isn't part two so no Roseanne doing the voice. Here we have Danny DeVito and Diane Keaton doing dogs voices. Not really worth watching and there are probably lots of dog movies that are better. This one has the family being hateful to each other again. Let's face it Travolta and Alley have to be the worst screen couple ever, they always have problems. All in all not worth watching, but at least it is more tolerable than part two, but I say skip the entire set movies as none of them are good.