(Credit IMDb) This time, a new baby is on the way, and it's a girl. Wrapped together with the standard conflict between mother and father, Mikey engages in a bit of sibling rivalry with his new sister, voiced by Roseanne.
Nowhere near as bad as the atrocious follow-up to this, but still pretty mediocre to say the least. The concept which worked so well in the entertaining first film, feels tired and unwanted here, despite a funny opening, and a couple of key scenes involving Bruce Willis and him voicing Mikey. As charismatic as Travolta is, him and Kirstie Alley cannot work the magic they did in the first movie. Who in there right mind would find Rosanne funny? Her voice is not only grating to the ears, but I'm going to respectfully say her hit T.V show has always been overrated. The finale itself is ridiculous and unbelievable and I just couldn't get past it. I also felt the subplot with Travolta and Kirstie Alley being separated over Koteas to be a bit silly. That being said, it's not the horrid follow up Look Who's Talking now is, but that's faint praise in itself.
Performances. John Travolta can only do so much with the lame material. His charisma kept me watching, but just barely. He and Alley work well together but they are defeated against the script. Kirstie Alley is good but her role feels tired this time, and I didn't sense the urgency or lovable qualities she possessed in the fist movie. Elias Koteas is OK as the gun obsessed brother, but nothing more then that. He especially looked silly at the end. Bruce does great as Mikey again, giving the movie some needed laughs, but Roseanne as I stated is horrible.
Bottom line. A couple of laughs do not make a solid follow-up. They should have quit while they were ahead, but since this made a decent amount of cash, they made a much worse follow-up. I'd tend to stray away from this one, stick with the original.
4 /10
Nowhere near as bad as the atrocious follow-up to this, but still pretty mediocre to say the least. The concept which worked so well in the entertaining first film, feels tired and unwanted here, despite a funny opening, and a couple of key scenes involving Bruce Willis and him voicing Mikey. As charismatic as Travolta is, him and Kirstie Alley cannot work the magic they did in the first movie. Who in there right mind would find Rosanne funny? Her voice is not only grating to the ears, but I'm going to respectfully say her hit T.V show has always been overrated. The finale itself is ridiculous and unbelievable and I just couldn't get past it. I also felt the subplot with Travolta and Kirstie Alley being separated over Koteas to be a bit silly. That being said, it's not the horrid follow up Look Who's Talking now is, but that's faint praise in itself.
Performances. John Travolta can only do so much with the lame material. His charisma kept me watching, but just barely. He and Alley work well together but they are defeated against the script. Kirstie Alley is good but her role feels tired this time, and I didn't sense the urgency or lovable qualities she possessed in the fist movie. Elias Koteas is OK as the gun obsessed brother, but nothing more then that. He especially looked silly at the end. Bruce does great as Mikey again, giving the movie some needed laughs, but Roseanne as I stated is horrible.
Bottom line. A couple of laughs do not make a solid follow-up. They should have quit while they were ahead, but since this made a decent amount of cash, they made a much worse follow-up. I'd tend to stray away from this one, stick with the original.
4 /10