Review of Look Who's Talking

Who was this film made for? Can't be the kids, as much as they might enjoy all of the, albeit not really visually graphic, gross-out comedy, seeing as how there are some fairly intimidating sequences throughout(and the language isn't exactly child-proof, either, though it could be worse). The focus is entirely on the single mother and her child, so few men will(willingly) watch. No, this seems to have been made explicitly for the group that the main character belongs to, 30-something single mothers who, in spite of being smart, make stupid decisions(which will annoy women not in that group, I would guess). I watched this for the first time in years, and it's really almost sad how little of it I remembered or recognized. The plot, I suppose, isn't awful, and realistic enough(disregarding the entire premise of the child "talking"), but it does seem like they merely made up just enough to bring it to 90 minutes, and to tie together the various scenes of the toddler in situations that such would find themselves in, with Bruce Willis doing a voice of what the kid might be thinking/trying to say(well, at least it's not as bad as Garfield, where sometimes, Jon seems to understand the Tabby perfectly, whereas others, he isn't picking up anything but the fact that his lazy pet is trying to communicate), so that the whole movie wasn't just of that(that would have been unbearable, even Hollywood couldn't have asked that of human beings). The humor usually doesn't work. There was maybe one brief point I found amusing, and that was it. The joke of every bit that has Willis doing the voice is that as far back as the womb(which we get a visual of... because that's what we movie-goers are just *dying* to see), our offspring are intelligent, well-spoken... really, the only thing Mikey isn't shown to have, for obvious reasons, is experience. The instances of him talking will amuse some, but once that wears off, you'll find that it's really not funny. At all. The film plods along, at a pace that at times almost seems like a psychological experiment... "how much will the viewers take, before they stop watching", with the occasional nightmare. Good pieces of music are used in the movie, where the choice of that particular song is downright frighteningly obvious. And this got two sequels and a TV show. I recommend this to those who find themselves in the group for which this film was intended... whatever it is. 5/10