Look Who’s Talking Now

The Look Who’s Talking series comes to a close with this absolutely terrible entry that follows John Travolta’s James and Kirstie Alley’s Mollie as they reluctantly take in a pair of dogs (voices by Danny DeVito and Diane Keaton), with further complications ensuing after James finds himself deflecting unwanted romantic advances from his sexy new boss (Lysette Anthony’s Samantha). There’s little doubt that Look Who’s Talking Now fares best in its lighthearted, relatively entertaining first half, as filmmaker Tom Ropelewski does an effective job of eliciting charismatic work from his various performers and heightening the affable atmosphere by stressing agreeably silly, entertaining interludes – with the initial emphasis on the aforementioned pups certainly injecting the proceedings with a breezy good-naturedness that proves fairly difficult to resist. It’s clear, then, that Look Who’s Talking Now‘s downfall is triggered by an increasingly tedious third act that’s focused almost entirely on James’ potential infidelity, with the palpable banality of this stretch compounded by an interminable sequence in which Mollie and the kids (and pets) are trapped in the wilderness and hunted by wolves (!). The feel-good ending is subsequently unable to pack the uplifting punch Ropelewski has obviously intended, while the laughable, awful closing-credits Christmas song ensures the whole thing ends on a rather detestable note, which cements Look Who’s Talking Now‘s place as a thoroughly dreadful capper to a mostly ineffective trilogy.

*1/2 out of ****