Worst of the Worst movie reviews - Look Who’s Talking Now

Every week I’ll be watching the worst rated movies on Rotten Tomatoes so you don’t have to. I’ll be doing one every week until the final issue where I’ll review the worst movie ever made (according to a random article I found). What are my qualifications you ask? I took Introduction to Media Studies in my first year and got a B average, so I think I know what I’m talking about. I’m going to watch each of these movies and decide whether it is rightfully on the worst movies of all-time list, based on my expert opinion.

Worst of the Worst: Look Who’s Talking Now  

Welcome back to the worst of the worst movie reviews, this week's terrible movie is Look Who’s Talking Now from 1993. It stars the one and only John Travolta, as well as Danny DeVito, who plays a talking dog. It essentially has everything I look for in a movie to review, talking dogs and actors I actually recognise the names of.  

Look Who’s Talking Now is the final installment of the Look Who’s Talking trilogy. I am an excellent investigative journalist and I always research my stories heavily, so I watched some clips from the first two movies. They actually seemed really good, so I don’t know where they went wrong. The whole series centers around a middle-class family with two kids. In the first two movies, the kids are too young to talk so they do a voiceover of their thoughts. In this one, they can talk for themselves. Go team!  

Now this movie is the third installment of a romantic comedy trilogy, so naturally they had to throw in some marital problems in for the sake of plot. There are implications of an affair and a sneaky mistress, but the main focus of the film is the talking dog. Enter: Danny DeVito. Mr. DeVito plays Rocks, a scruffy little boy who just wants to be loved. He can talk and he begs Mikey (the son) to take him home. Chaos ensues.  

Now, the plot of this movie is all over the place. It seems the charm of the first two movies was the hilarious inner monologue of the two kids in the family. The talking dogs are pretty hilarious, and I’m a sucker for a How Much Is That Doggie in the Window origin story. The talking dog is stereotypical (and, dare I say, predictable) but I truly ate that shit up.  

Essentially, romantic comedies shouldn't be sequels. The characters lose their charm when you attempt to give them depth and they just end up kind of unlikeable and annoying. However, throw in talking animals, one of whom is played by Danny DeVito, and you have my attention.  

Should they have made a third movie? No. Does it deserve to be listed as one of the worst movies of all time? No, I don’t think so. It’s definitely not a cinematic masterpiece but it’s also kind of charming and hilarious. I’m not going to watch it again but I don’t necessarily regret it, there are worse ways to spend an hour and 36 minutes.