Look Who's Talking Now!
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Look Who's Talking Now! is a 1993 romantic family comedy movie directed by Tom Ropelewski was the third and final movie in the Look Who's Talking Trilogy. It's also the only movie in the trilogy where Bruce Willis wasn't involved.
Plot
Now as kids, Mikey and Julie wish to have pets and James and Molly try look for pets, as well as later on trying to reunite the family.
Production
Unlike the previous entries the family's children no longer include internal voices through voice actors, given that the characters were now older. Danny DeVito and Diane Keaton portray the Ubriaccos' dogs. This also marked the film debuts of Tabitha Lupien, and David Gallagher, best known for his later role as Simon Camden on 7th Heaven. Charles Barkley makes a cameo appearance as himself. George Segal, who portrayed Albert, the first film's antagonist and Mikey's biological father, reappears briefly in a dream sequence. Both Twink Caplan, who portrayed Mollie's best friend, Rona, in the previous two films, and Elias Koteas, who portrayed Mollie's brother, Stuart, in the second film, declined to return for this film. French singer Jordy performs, alongside David Gallagher, Tabitha Lupien, and other children, in a special music video for the film, titled It's Christmas, C'est Noel, from the album of Christmas, Potion Magique.
Why It Should Stop Talking Now
- The charm from the first two films has disappeared and instead of the film's subject about talking babies, it's about talking dogs.
- Even more cliché plot.
- The jokes are not funny at all.
- The dream scene where the two dreams emerge with each other is extremely cringeworthy.
- Having Mikey and Julie as kids now is nice, but it's a big loss of the charm.
- It lacks the presence of Bruce Willis, who voiced Mikey in the first two movies, which is one of the reasons what made the first movie enjoyable.
- Poor effects.
- The scene with the family singing the Chipmunks song "Christmas (Don't be Late)" is annoying.
- The opening scene is poor.
- The hatred between the dogs, is similar to the hatred between Mikey and Julie in the 2nd movie. However, just like the third movie, they became friends at the end.
- It rehashes the plot of the first movie. But instead of giving birth to a baby, it's about adopting dogs.
- Unlike the first two movies, which were more family oriented despite some inappropriate content, this one is blatantly for kids.
- A pointless dream sequence where Julie dreams that she could beat Charles Barkley.
- While they still give good performances, both Travolta's and Alley's performances are a little dim compared to the first two movies.
- Amy Heckerling, who directed the first two movies, didn't direct this one, which is another reason why this movie is so different compared to the first two.
- It permanently killed the Look Who's Talking franchise.
- Pointless strangeness that doesn't seem to stop.
Redeeming Qualities
- The acting is still good, and the same can be said about the voice acting too, especially from Danny DeVito. Even if Travolta's and Alley's performances are a little dim compared to the first two movies.
- It was nice to see Mikey and Julie as kids now.
- The ending was nice.
- Good soundtrack.
- The annoying and creepy baby gym instructor from the second movie isn't in this one, nor is he mentioned.
- A year after this was released, John Travolta got his career back on track with the release of Pulp Fiction, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.
Release
The film was released domestically on November 5, 1993, before international distribution including the United Kingdom on May 27, 1994.
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 0% of 25 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 3/10. The website's consensus reads: "Look Who's Talking Now: Look away." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 26 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews. Roger Ebert gave the film one star out of four and remarked that "it looks like it was chucked up by an automatic screenwriting machine". Gene Siskel gave the film zero stars and called it "an abysmal, embarrassing sequel". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.
Dan Cox of Variety wrote: "Stretching a premise that one might say has gone to the dogs, Look Who's Talking Now runs feebly on the calculated steam of its forebears". Rita Kempley of The Washington Post wrote: "Take the 'dle' out of 'poodle' and you've pretty much got the leitmotif of Look Who's Talking Now, a crude and mawkish film in which dogs attempt to communicate with Kirstie Alley and John Travolta".
Stephen Holden of The New York Times was somewhat positive, writing that "the sound of stars mouthing the inner thoughts of dogs is somehow funnier than that of grownup actors doing wisecracking voice overs for gurgling infants". Peter Rainer of the Los Angeles Times was also somewhat positive, calling the film "borderline pleasant" because Travolta and Alley "are a marvelous team".
Leonard Maltin's film guide gave it two stars out of four, saying "the first one was cute, the second one was dreadful; this third entry in the series falls somewhere in between".
Box office
Look Who's Talking Now! was a box-office bomb, only earning over $10 million against its $22 million budget, making it the lowest-grossing film in the series. In its opening week, the film also faced stiff competition for an audience from The Nightmare Before Christmas.