Look Who's Talking Now (1993) User Reviews

Tired and predictable

[TheLittleSongbird · 3/10 · 2 August 2010]

Look Who's Talking Now is not absolutely unwatchable and certainly not the worst movie ever made, but for me it is weakest of the series. I really enjoyed the first, and while watchable the second was a disappointment. Look Who's Talking Now has its good points, such as the soundtrack and the two dogs voiced wonderfully by Danny DeVito and Diane Keaton. Plus it is not too bad visually.

However, the concept has been done to death but the story feels very tired this time around, and to further disadvantage there are one too many thin and predictable gags and weak lines in the script. Other than DeVito and Keaton the other acting wasn't so impressive, this time John Travolta and Kirstie Alley seem to be phoning in their performances as the bickering couple. And the ending was far too sentimental for my liking.

Overall, perhaps worth the look but it is disappointing for me anyway. 3/10 Bethany Cox

The series hits rock bottom, but hey, it wasn't that far a drop

[TBJCSKCNRRQTreviews · 3/10 · 29 October 2007]

Well, at least this was the last they made(*no*, Hollywood, that was *not* a dare). In that they had run out of different genders of children to give celebrity voices to, they turned to the pets. This time, they give the family two dogs, one of each gender, give them each a voice and lets the kids rest their inner voices. Why is it that infants, right from the womb(which we, again, see, because there apparently can not be an entry in this franchise without that), have the voice of people who are about middle-aged, give or take a handful of years or so? Apparently, even dogs. Oh well, at least these two actors, DeVito and Keaton, aren't too bad(not that I had a problem with Willis, at least as an actor), and the former's voice fits rather well for a canine. Take that any way you want. At least Roseanne is gone... but they make efforts to make Julie as annoying without her, having her tell knock-knock jokes so lame that even the parents would ask her to stop... she also apparently fantasizes about beating Charles Barkley, who must have liked the part, as he did the same thing again three years later, in Space Jam. Dukakis shows up again, in what can only be loyalty(in a film with dogs as main characters, how fitting). Heckerling neither wrote nor directed this... when the very *creator* of a franchise steps down, you ought to know there's something wrong. There is no trace left of any charm the series ever had(which was all found in the first). I would say that the franchise by this point just has overstayed its welcome, but it could be argued that it achieved that before the end credits of the original film. More nightmare sequences, this time being ridiculous(a first for the series; usually, they were just misplaced and more unsettling than anything a young child should watch). The main conflict is essentially rehashed from the first two, only dumbed down. Lysette Anthony shows up, her acting performance being at the same level that it was in Trilogy of Terror II(that would be poor). This film will insult the intelligence of anyone beyond the age of seven, but some of the humor remains above what they will(or should) understand, or ought to watch. The very ending was almost too much. I recommend this to people who like dogs, and men attracted to Lysette. 3/10

good movie for family

[nicommoreno · 5/10 · 14 October 2006]

good family movie to watch on a Sunday evening full of goodness with talking dogs and this time the kids can talk for them selves also the wife is very paranoid about her husband so it ends up like bit of fights in her dreams Gangtok dogs bogs photogenic none flapping Sedgwick fisticuff this movie is great superb amazing fantastic outstanding dog fun for many people i would recommend this movie for a family of 3 or more so you can sit on your couch while the fire is on to enjoying a good comedy plus the mum(British term) and dad are the same actors so there cannot be any confusions an if any parents think this is bad for there child's life about finding out that Santa is a fake it shows you at the end that there is a Santa clause

Well, there are puppies... adorable puppies... gotta love puppies... you know I had to try

[Smells_Like_Cheese · 2/10 · 10 February 2004]

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

John Travolta and Kirstie Alley are great.

[buppy · 8 November 1998]

John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, and Lysette Anthony are wonderful in this funny, funny film. James and Mollie Ubriacco (John Travolta and Kirstie Alley) now have 2 more bundles of joy...dogs! Danny DeVito lends his talent as the voice of Rocks, a street dog who now belongs to Mikey. Diane Keaton is the voice of Daphne, a poodle that's dropped off by James's boss, Samantha (Lysette Anthony) who's got her sights on stealing James from Mollie. This is a great movie that is really enjoyable for everyone in the family.

A Night in the Doghouse

[southdavid · 2/10 · 21 November 2018]

Decided to watch "Look Who's Talking Now" as the podcast "How Did This Get Made" is planning to (rightly) eviscerate it in the near future.

In this second sequel to the inexplicably popular "Look Who's Talking" Mikey and Julie have reached the age where they can actually speak, so the hearing thoughts conceit is pushed onto two dogs that come to live with the family. James (John Travolta) and Mollie's (Kirstie Alley) marriage is being put to the test by the long hours James is taking in his new job as a private pilot, flying around his new boss played by Lysette Anthony. Into their lives come two dogs, Rocks (voiced (badly) by Danny Devito) and Daphne (voiced by Diane Keaton). Eventually the film get bored and crowbars these two plots together before giving up and prolapsing into one of the worst music videos your ever likely to see.

What's striking about "Look Who's Talking Now" upon watching it is the disinterest the people involved it making it seemed to have. I'll save Kirstie Alley and John Travolta from too much criticism here, they are doing their best with what was given to them and both have proven themselves capable in other roles. But that's about the only plus point. Logic is sacrificed pretty early on. Rocks ages from a puppy to fully grown dog during the opening scenes, although there's no other indication that any time has passed, the kids are the same age, and their home situation is the same. The daughter Julie (Tabitha Lupien) is enigmatically obsessed with Charles Barkley, in a way that never pans out to be relevant to the plot (almost as if they convinced Barkley to do a cameo and then had to find a way to get it into the plot somehow). The family are struggling financially, in that kinda of 90's Hollywood struggling where they have a massive apartment in New York, a car and the world is so full of qualified pilots that one would struggle to find work. Everything that happens to, and with, the dogs, who the film was supposed to be about, is completely pointless until the end and they both get a "Lassie" moment to help the film find some sort of conclusion.

And then there's the music video. The version I saw was with Jordy's "It's Christmas, C'est Noel". Merde'. The nadir of badly shot, badly conceived, mess.

Look Who's Sucked!

[mandabeatle · 1/10 · 11 February 2003]

Ok.. John Travolta needed some money to buy a plane so my guess is that's why he starred in this poorly written/idea of crap. Instead of throwing this one to the dogs, they should have given these two old tykes another sibling to make their lives hell.. but of course someone just said hey, why don't we try animals.. and again these people failed... The original and it's copies should be on the 100 most lamest movies ever made and be burned! Enough Said.

Well it was better than two.

[Aaron1375 · 2/10 · 6 May 2003]

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.

A guilty pleasure

[leejjones-92486 · 4/10 · 13 March 2020]

While this is a bad film and the low point of Travolta's career he would bounce back a year later with Pulp Fiction.I watched this film as a kid and is a guilty pleasure.

Not brilliant but still an underrated movie.A nice family film.

[lesleyharris30 · 6/10 · 4 January 2012]

Looks Whos Talking now isn't a brilliant film but I find it to be underrated,it still quite funny,with a nice storyline and enjoyable for the whole family,John Travolta and Kirstie Alley have great chemistry and I enjoyed how they made dogs the ones talking this time instead of doing something like,having another baby.

Christmas is on the way and the Ubriacco family get two dogs,James gets a new job which involves a lot of travelling while Mollie gets fired.This time the dogs do the talking because the two kids are all grown up,Daphne (voiced by Diane Keaton) is a pampered poodle and starts to fall for the other new dog Rocks (voiced by Danny Devito).

Tripe.

[XenoCorpse · 2/10 · 10 May 2006]

What can be said? In an attempt to milk the "celebrity voices something that doesn't have it's own speaking voice" schtick, the Look Who's Talking series wanders from babies (which they did twice) to dogs. I half-expected them to continue the series after this outing by focusing on the talking tapeworms in Kirstie Alley's stomach or some similar thing.

Sure, it's cute and has its moments, but ultimately this movie's a big fluffy nothing with Danny DeVito doing some of the worst voice work of his career, and Diane Keaton doing the worst acting of her entire life, voice or not.

How many "awwww" moments does it take to get to the sappy center of a "Look Who's Talking" movie? The world really doesn't need to know.

This movie is underrated.

[cblountt · 8/10 · 12 December 2011]

Some of you people are so picky. This is certainly not the worst movie ever made. I agree it's not the best movie of the series but it's fun to watch especially around the holidays.

First, the cast is great. Lot's of funny stuff and the chemistry is perfect especially between John Travolta and Kirstie Alley.

The way Danny DeVito and Diane Keaton blend their voices with the on screen action of the dogs is nothing short of great. The facial expressions of the dogs, in some cases, fit the dialog perfectly.

I also think this movie is great for the holidays. It expresses the importance of family and togetherness.

I do find it interesting that there are two endings to this movie. The original theatrical version had a different music cue at the very end along with regular scrolling credits. The version that was released on laserdisc and VHS had a, in my opinion, better music cue at the end (Joy to the world) and then a music video with the credits. The DVD release has the original theatrical ending but thankfully the Netflix HD version has the "video" ending.

In my humble opinion, a wonderful family film especially for the holidays. Lots of fun if you are in the mood for light comedy. Just enjoy it and don't worry about comparing it to the other films.

Well, *I* liked it. May contain some spoilers.

[cruztacean · 7/10 · 17 April 2006]

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!"

Mostly fun, some odd scenes...

[Calicodreamin · 5/10 · 9 January 2020]

For the most part this is a pretty fun movie and a good follow up in the "look who's talking" series. However, it needed to take another pass through the editing department. The family scenes are really well done and come across well, the plot itself is well developed, and the acting comparable. However, most of the early dog talking scenes and the dream sequences could have gone and not been missed.

Deeply unsettling, hopelessly inept and really boring.

[GrantKanigan · 27 November 2018]

At least the second film in this god-awful trilogy had the benefit of being so bad and inappropriate it was unintentionally hilarious. This scattershot, occasionally offensive, always unsettling and very dumb film is one of the most boring cinematic experiences in recent memory. The side plot of dogs, (how'd they score DeVito and Keaton, both of whom were doing much better that Alley or Travolta at this point in their carreers?), is useless; the 'dad is hard at work' subplot is just recycled from the second film, (they even use the same dream gag), and the plot doesn't really exist. And why does everyone keep ragging on Travolta's carreer? Being a pilot is no easy feat!

Travolta and Alley, who seem to get along in real life, seem to repel each other onscreen; maybe because they're platonically inclined to each other in reality; onscreen they're like two positively charged magnets pushing each other apart. On top of all that, the casual misogyny throughout is grating and extremely distasteful. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

struggling to reclaim any originality

[SnoopyStyle · 3/10 · 20 April 2015]

The Ubriaccos are back. James (John Travolta) get a new job as a pilot for entitled Samantha (Lysette Anthony) who is the president of a major company. Meanwhile, Mollie (Kirstie Alley) gets laid off from her accounting job. Mikey and Julie get 2 new dogs. Rocks (Danny DeVito) is a mutt and the runt of the litter from the dog pound. Daphne (Diane Keaton) is a spoiled pedigree poodle from Samantha.

The family is now bland. The kids are not as compelling without their gimmick. It seems like the movie is struggling to find something to happen to the family. I do mean struggle. It has way too many stupidity. I don't get why there's a dream sequence with Julie and Charles Barkley. It seems like filler. The dogs get sporadic screen time in the first half. I expected that the dogs would be in the home right away but the first half is wasted. Once the family unites with the dogs, it gets the expected kids with dogs mayhem. I keep thinking that there is a better story. The story is more like a sitcom. It should have been a fun family fare. I am bored with the dream sequences. This is like watching an unstable house of cards completely collapse. Then it takes a hard turn at the end that doesn't fit any of the rest of the movie.

Meh

[AngelHonesty · 3/10 · 5 April 2021]

I really like the first film, it was hilarious, cute and relatable. The second wasn't as good, but it still had charm. Look Who's Talking Now was a complete flop. Listening to the dogs talk instead of the babies completely ruined it. It might have been a little bit interesting, but they picked the wrong voices for the dogs and I didn't find the dialogue very funny. It was nice that they had the original cast, but the story in the film was less interesting compared to the others. It wasn't fun seeing John Travolta become serious instead of his goofy self. The kids and Mollie seemed to be an after thought in the film. The main focus was on the dogs which wasn't very interesting and it was on James with his new job and boss. The film lacks in its humour leaving it kinda boring as the story isn't very interesting.

Thank heavens this was the last one ..

[callanvass · 2/10 · 8 January 2011]

(Credit IMDb) In this, the third film, it's the pets that do the talking. The Ubriacco's find themselves the owners of two dogs, Rocks, a street wise cross breed, and Daphne, a spoiled pedigree poodle. James has a new job, pilot to the sexy and lonely Samantha. Mollie's just lost hers and is stuck at home

After such a cute movie that the first produced, we were treated with a mediocre sequel, then a travesty. Who in there right mind thought this was a good idea? Pets talking didn't cut it for me, and obviously plenty of others, when this tanked miserably at the box office. I didn't laugh once during this movie. In fact I felt sorry for solid talent like Travolta and Alley for having to star in such a pathetic mess. One of the most laughable scenes for me, that obviously tried to come off as cutesy was when Travolta's daughter has a crush on Charles Barkley, and has a scene with him on the basketball court. Also, the pets. What was this, Lady and The Tramp?

Performances. John Travolta tries to charm his way through this mess, but can only do so much with the terrible material. He's certainly far from bad, but he's not exactly in the position to do much with his performance. Kirstie Alley also tries her hardest, but much like Travolta, she can only do so much. The kids are OK, as are the voices.

Bottom line. Did they not get the memo on the 2nd one? This was clearly unwarranted, and the results showed that. The 2nd one isn't worth it, neither is this turd. Avoid, stick with the cute 1st.

2 ½ /10

Look Who's Talking Now!

[jboothmillard · 3/10 · 13 October 2022]

The first film became a huge hit and reignited the career for the lead actor who went on to star in Pulp Fiction, the second film just repeated the same format and was okay, I didn't have my hopes high for this third instalment in the trilogy. Basically, in New York, Christmas is approaching, and Mollie (Kirstie Alley) and James Ubriacco (John Travolta) are preparing for the holiday season with their young children, Mikey (David Gallagher) and Julie (Tabitha Lupien). Meanwhile, a mutt puppy (voiced by Danny DeVito) is on the run and living as a stray. One day, the puppy bumps into Mikey who is walking with Mollie, he likes the little boy and wants to go with him. Eventually the puppy is caught by dog handlers from an animal rescue centre, he taken into a kennel along with many other rescued dogs. James is a pilot and has been recently introduced to English businesswoman Samantha D'Bonne (Lysette Anthony) who has taken over the airline company and extends his trips to spend more time with him. Meanwhile Mollie is looking for a job after getting laid off. At the mall, Mikey tells the store Santa Claus (Ron Gabriel) that he wants a dog for Christmas, James feels the time has come to get one, and he tells Samantha about this. James takes Mikey to the animal rescue centre; they arrive just as the stray mutt puppy is about to be put down. The puppy recognises Mikey and James decides he wants to take him home; he names the dog Rocks. When the return home, Samantha is there, having already purchases a dog, a well-groomed and beautiful poodle named Daphne (voiced by Diane Keaton). Rocks and Daphne meet each other and do not get along. Rocks is messy and untrained while Daphne is well trained and spoiled. Daphne bonds with Julie, while Rocks gets on well with Mikey. But Rocks is testing Mollie's patience due to his behaviour, including leaving messes for her to clean up, and chewing various pairs of her shoes. Samantha continually asks James to fly various long trips, while Mollie is still looking for a job and taking care of the kids and the dogs. James and Mollie develop tensions over Samantha, as she is concerned that he is having an affair. James states he has faith in his wife and wants her to have faith in him. She agrees to trust him but is still distrustful of Samantha's intentions. Meanwhile, Mollie is becoming increasingly unhappy with Rocks' behaviour and declares a final strike; if he chews one more pair of her shoes, he will out! After another trip, both are in bed on opposite sides of the world and have dreams of the other being unfaithful. James and Mollie still love each other and miss each other while they are apart. As Mollie becomes more tired, Daphne realises that she needs to become more independent. Rocks helps Daphne to develop skills of her own, including opening the door and to use her sense of smell to track people and things. The two dogs start becoming friends. But Daphne previously deliberately chewed up Mollie's most valued pair of shoes, while she had a grudge against Rocks, in order to have him thrown out, but she cannot do anything when Mollie finds the shoes and feels guilty after Rocks is thrown out. However, Mollie has a change of heart when she sees how upset it makes Mikey, and she notices Daphne misses him as well. On Christmas Eve, Samantha tricks James into coming to fancy cabin in the woods, claiming she has a prospective client for him to meet. James cannot leave due to a severe snowstorm and calls Mollie to tell her that he cannot make it home for Christmas. Mollie learns that he is alone with Samantha and becomes worried he is going to cheat on her. Mollie's mother reassures her that if James truly loves her, he would never do that. Mollie drives through the storm with the children and dogs to "bring Christmas to Daddy". Their car gets stuck in the woods; they are attacked by wolves, but Rocks fights them and scares them away while his family are in the car. Daphne sets out to find help using the tracking skills that Rocks taught her. Rocks runs out to track down James and eventually finds Samantha's cabin. James finds him and realises that Mollie has set out to find him. He confronts Samantha about her intentions towards him and finally quits his job, then intends to leave with Rocks to find his family. Samantha tries to throw a vase at him, but he shuts the door. The wolves return and try to attack, but Rocks fights them off while James escapes. Meanwhile, Daphne finds forest rangers, who take Mollie and the kids to safety. James finds them at the cabin, and Rocks runs in after. James tells Mollie that if it wasn't for Rocks, he wouldn't have made it. James and Mollie carry Mikey and Julie to bed to wait for Santa to come. Also starring Olympia Dukakis as Rosie, George Segal as Albert, and Space Jam's Charles Barkley as himself, with the voices of Bob Bergen, Peter Iacangelo, Nick Jameson, and Patricia Parris. Travolta is fine as the father and husband, and gets another dance number, Alley is still likeable enough, Gallagher and Lupien are cute as the kids, while DeVito and Keaton are alright as the inner voices of the dogs. With the kids old enough to speak for themselves, there is no room for the voices of Bruce Willis or Roseanne Barr, Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey was out the same years, months before, the producers probably just thought it was easier to nick the talking animals idea. Two talking dogs heard only by the audience, no matter how cute they are, can't rescue an already exhausted formula, the story is predictable and often annoying, the Christmas element doesn't add anything either, especially the ending credits with the horribly cheesy song "It's Christmas, C'est Noel" and montage, it's just an unamusing and pointless comedy. Adequate!

It exists, it has no reason to, and I've already forgotten about it.

[IonicBreezeMachine · 3/10 · 26 March 2022]

James (John Travolta) and Mollie Ubriacco (Kirstie Alley) continue to raise their rambunctious children, Mikey (David Gallagher) Julie (Tabitha Lupien). With the holidays approaching James attains his dream job as a pilot for executive Samantha D'Bonne (Lysette Anthony) at the same time Mollie is laid off from her accounting firm. With Christmas approaching Mikey soon discovers a man taking off his Santa beard leading him to no longer believing in Santa, meanwhile Mollie becomes insecure with James' frequent absences and finds herself feeling paranoid that James and Samantha are inching towards an affair. Through additional circumstances they also find themselves taking in two dogs, rough and tumble mutt Rocks (Danny DeVito) and pedigreed and refined poodle Daphne (Diane Keaton).

With Look Who's Talking becoming the fourth highest grossing film of 1989, 1990 gave us the inevitable sequel a mere 14 months after the first film. Domestically the Look Who's Talking Too made $47 million, well short of the $140 million of its predecessor most likely due to its unfortunate release between two similarly targeted films Home Alone and Kindergarten Cop being released before and after it. Thankfully the for Tri-Star the film did quite well internationally making an estimated $73 million in foreign territories. While short of the juggernaut the first film was, Look Who's Talking Too made enough for Tri-Star to greenlight one additional entry. Kirstie Alley was initially reluctant to return as Mollie with initial drafts intending to kill the character off between movies and positioning Travolta's James as a single father looking to get back in the dating scene. Executives nixed this idea early on and new directing/writing team Tom Ropelewski and Leslie Dixon approached Alley again and convinced her to return having worked with her on the movie Madhouse. With the children now old enough to speak in story, the writers instead put the inner monologues in the heads of two dogs adopted by the family. This franchise has long since worn out its welcome, and despite a cast with charisma and charm, even they can't hold up a film made that has nowhere to take its characters.

Pretty much everything in Look Who's Talking Now it feels like it belongs in a sitcom. The setup is like a sitcom, the stakes are like a sitcom, even the plots and relationships feel like they belong are suited in a sitcom. There's no real plot in this movie as like the second film it's just a bunch of "mini-plots" duct taped together into something that superficially resembles a full film. Most of these plots like the rambunctious pets, the children doubting Santa Claus, or the paranoia about a loved on having an affair with a "sexy" boss, co-worker, or prospective client, all of these have been used as premises for sitcom episodes. Yes these plots have been used in good films, but when they're done there they're typically given more weight and substance in either character or thematic material. Here however, because they're all "subplots" they're all given surface level (at best) treatment and these characters are so flat and one note there's nothing that can be mined from this material. Kirstie Alley's Mollie continues to have her neuroses dialed up to exaggerated levels and Travolta's charm is no longer carrying his good natured doofus character who doesn't have anything to do except smile and reject the advances of Samantha, enough plot for a 22 minute TV episode really stretched in a 90 minute movie. Diane Keaton and Danny DeVito voice the inner monologues of the family's two dogs Daphne and Rocks and even these two talented performers can't elevate this material. Like how Look Who's Talking Too had the misfortune of being released between Home Alone and Kindergarten Cop, Look Who's Talking Now had the misfortune to be released 9 months after a much better talking dog (and cat) movie with Disney's Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey giving a much better take on this kind of material by having a full narrative rather than just stapling some stock plots together and giving us an artificial climax involving wolves that feels artificial, unearned, and manipulative. And that "believing in Santa" subplot culminating in the most hackney cliché you can imagine where the existence of Santa is made is "definitively made".

Look Who's Talking Now limply concludes the inexplicable trilogy of comedies built upon inoffensive mediocrity that suckered people in the first time with a gimmick of rambling ADR from a celebrity voice and ran that into the ground well before the second film was even released. I'm not even mad at it, because it's like getting mad at the series finale of a show you didn't even like in the first place. I could at least appreciate elements of Amy Heckerling's commentary or observations in the first film, even the first film had glimpses of "hmm, that's okay I guess", but Look Who's Talking Now is just nothing. It probably doesn't even deserve this level of analysis.

The movie is for kids! (I love Dogs movies so it for me as well)

[atinder · 6/10 · 30 November 2012]

Third movie in the series, kids talk on there own now, now it the dogs turn to talk.

I grew up talking dogs, So I never really Grown out of these kinda of movies.

I love them, I also really enjoyed this movie,

This movie was very funny for both parents and kids, there are really great jokes that really work.

However this movie as some Xmas moments but never really felt like Xmas movie. all the way thought.

Decent Family movie, I love dogs, you will enjoy this more.

6 out of 10

Dogs think in English, apparently

[Harlekwin_UK · 2/10 · 8 May 2023]

No mute mutts here, please!

As the family grows they acquire pets. Dogs. And we get to hear exactly what's going through their minds as we journey through life with Man's Best Friend.

So it is animals in this one but to be honest it really feels like two films too far. It isn't a humourless film but the concept is spread so thin that it isn't an easy movie to like.

Some credit to the editor for putting it together and Diane Keaton and Danny DeVito do their best.

Things to look out for: Finding a new 'doggie' in the wild, umm, there wasn't a fourth movie, Kirstie Alley dressed as an elf, umm

If you are a huge fan of the original you'll like this but really not worth rewatching, watch once.

The low rating is undeserved

[BeccaGudd · 8/10 · 13 November 2018]

I'm really surprised at such a low rating. This movie is such a great family film. Ok it's not the same as the first 2 in the way it's more family orientated. However I think it's a great family Christmas film and one that kids would love. The dogs are really cute and Devito and Keaton are perfect for the voices. I recommend watching it at Christmas, it's not a movie that is a huge blockbuster but for a couple of hours at Christmas why not?!

Dumb but Funny

[MovieFan983 · 6/10 · 30 December 1998]

This was an ok sequel, that was better than the first one. Although some of the sequences were ludicrous, it was still entertaining throughout. I give Look Who's Talking Now: 6.5 out of 10. Rated PG-13 for sexual/crude humor, thematic elements, and language.

Repetitive? Eggxactly.

[mark.waltz · 4/10 · 29 January 2020]

Gone are Bruce Willis (too bad) and Roseanne (no loss) as the voices of Mikey and Julie, and in are Danny DeVito and Diane Keaton as the voice of the family pets. Didn't we get this with Don Ameche, Sally Field and Michael J. Fox in two "Homeward Bound" films? Yep, we did. So Mikey and Julie look like their characters just a bit older, and now Mikey is of school age and Julie is near her terrible two's. The third entry has its charms, but they are of the standard sitcom variety, showing Mikey doing a "Here's Lucy" by investigating a luggage tressel and getting the ride of his life and creating all sorts of tension in his disgust over discovering that there may not really be a Santa. For the adults, Kirsty Alley is fired from her job and neer do well hubby John Travolta is hired by the seductive Lysette Anthony to work as her personal pilot.

As Christmas approaches, this goes down the territories of many other films we've already seen ("Home Alone") or would be done better later on ("Marley & Me"), but there certainly are some charming moments like when Alley, Travolta and young Julie perform "The Chipmunk Christmas Song" for a saddened Mikey. Julie goes up against professional basketball player Charles Barkley in her fantasies, a cute but pointless scene. This in fact is a whole 90 minutes of sweet, amusing but unrelated scenes that focuses on the antics of mutt Rocks (DeVito) and purebred Daphne (Keaton) who get along like Mikey and Julie did in the previous film. The result is a film trying to force its audience to ooh and ah at pedestrian comedy that snooty Daphne would stick her nose up at.

Olympia Dukakis, judgmental of Travolta's seeming lack of ambition in the last film, is now proud of his success, while Alley is forced to take jobs way beneath her including an elf working with a department store Santa. In the first two films, it was reversed so it's Alley's turn to be idle which makes her think that something's going on with Anthony while having dreams about Mikey's natural father (George Segal in a pointless cameo). There's a sense of vintage nostalgia with Julie thinking that she can fly like Mary Martin's Peter Pan while Alley dreams of being Ginger Rogers to Travolta's Fred Astair. Unfortunately the voice overs of Devito and Keaton falls flat even though the lines are witty and intelligent. Their voice-overs are supposed to parallel Alley and Travolta as the humans which seems smart on paper but doesn't work in translation.

The situation gets complicated but cloying when Travolta doesn't show up for Christmas Eve, having been trapped by femme fatale Anthony at her luxurious cabin in the woods and Alley takes the kids (and dogs) upstate New York to find him. They have encounters with some vicious wolves (which has a rather unrealistic conclusion) while Travolta tries to outwit the devious fox, Anthony, who could certainly give reason for Travolta's character to claim me too! This attempts too hard to be a feel good comedy, but with what plot that is there, it ends up as a major disappointment.