Review of Look Who's Talking Too (1990) by Jessie V — 12 May 2009

The sequel to a film that had a pointless gimmick and a lame plot, this adds the uncomfortable ingredient of the parents screaming abuse at each other, until toddler Mikey is so disturbed that he rips the head off of a toy penguin. This disturbed nature goes completely unnoticed by the adults and is never resolved. Happy sequel.

Mollie (Kirstie Alley) and James (John Travolta) have a child, Julie. There's a very disturbing scene in which impregnation is likened to rape. Their marriage slowly falls apart because they are only together for the kids and don't like each other at all. This reminds me of how in the first film, Mollie didn't want James to be the father of her child because he was a no good bum. It seems she was right. He is a terrible father. The only plus he has is that he really likes the children, but that doesn't stop him being a horrible skank.

The scenes in which Mikey imagines monsters are well done and funny, but there's not enough of the children thinking like children, and too much of the tired 'children thinking like adults' VO gimmick. And whoever thought of getting the children to blather constantly and muting it out so the VO could be put in was an idiot. All this does is make it look like bad lip-syncing. And whether they are well done, or pitiful, the children's scenes never go anywhere, presumably because the director just had to film whatever it was the children were doing, and forgot to get anyone to write anything plotty or funny around it.

The first film was utterly lame. This one is also lame, and unpleasant and forgets about any structure or following through on what it sets up. However, unlike Mikey, baby Julie's VO is actually funny. Still, considering she is the 'too' of the title, she isn't in it much. But well done them on getting the world's cutest baby. So, Julie is a good addition, but the films are just rubbish.