This seems to be directly targeting two completely polarised demographics in completely separate scenes of the film. As opposed to the junky sequels, which are sickly-sweet corn strictly for kids, there is such a stark contrast between the adult scenes and the kids scenes that, watching it as an adult viewer now, it seems like a completely different flick than when i was watching it as a kid.
And it works for kids - i remember enjoying it - but adults won't help be confused by the sex jokes from Bruce Willis as the internal voice of the baby (which go completely over children's heads, i can tell you), and the whole talking baby thing, which dominates the movie a whole lot less than Kirstie Alley's single mother in search of a daddy plot.
Its a kind of useless gimmick. Its not like in What Women Want where these internal voices we're hearing can actually have an effect on the narrative: here the baby is completely impotent, can't express its views to the outside world, and is completely irrelevant to the action.
Its strange that a movie which is widely considered a kids or family movie should, on closer examination, seem more like a twenty-somethings flick about womanhood and motherhood. And even stranger still how popular it seems to be with the kiddies. Heck, if the kiddies love it, what's more to say?
And it works for kids - i remember enjoying it - but adults won't help be confused by the sex jokes from Bruce Willis as the internal voice of the baby (which go completely over children's heads, i can tell you), and the whole talking baby thing, which dominates the movie a whole lot less than Kirstie Alley's single mother in search of a daddy plot.
Its a kind of useless gimmick. Its not like in What Women Want where these internal voices we're hearing can actually have an effect on the narrative: here the baby is completely impotent, can't express its views to the outside world, and is completely irrelevant to the action.
Its strange that a movie which is widely considered a kids or family movie should, on closer examination, seem more like a twenty-somethings flick about womanhood and motherhood. And even stranger still how popular it seems to be with the kiddies. Heck, if the kiddies love it, what's more to say?