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 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.

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.