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Look Who's Talking is such a great classic, one of my great memories of childhood, every weekend when I would go to my grandparent's place, they would let me pick a movie and we would watch it together, very often I would pick Look Who's Talking or Look Who's Talking Too, they were just such fun movies to watch and laugh at. When I grew up, I realized I hadn't seen the movie in so many years, but it was on TV the other day and I figured I would have a little blast from the past and watch it. You know what's strange about this movie? It's actually more for adults rather than the kids, but this became such a family friendly movie, but that's why many people say they don't make them like they used too, because writing where it is more aimed at the adults but it ends up being something that every age can enjoy is clever and this is one of the most fun movies of the 90's.

Mollie Jensen is an accountant living and working in New York City. The latest client she has been assigned by her firm is a charmingly-handsome but shallow womanizing executive named Albert who seduces her and although married embarks on an affair with Mollie, promising to leave his wife for her. Mollie becomes pregnant with his child. After realizing she is pregnant she informs Albert who takes the news well and again promises to leave his wife and raise the baby with her. Mollie continues her relationship with Albert as the pregnancy develops, however he's seeing another woman. Later when Mollie and her best friend Rona are shopping Mollie finds Albert in a clinch with the other woman. Angry and upset, a heart-broken Mollie storms off in a rage while the fight causes her to suddenly go into labor. When she hails a cab the driver James Ubriacco realizes the seriousness of the situation and speeds off to the hospital. Upon reaching the hospital, the nurses' confuse him for being the father of Mollie's baby and he feels inclined to stay. Mollie gives birth to a son she names Michael. A few days after "Mikey" is brought home, Mollie receives a visit from James, where he returns the purse she left behind in his taxi. James meets Mikey, and they seem to enjoy each others company. Mollie starts dating again, but quickly realizes that none of the men she has been seeing are good enough for Mikey and one night she lets her guard down and almost sleeps with James; however after imagining what life would be like if she married him, she asks him to leave, despite James telling her he loves both her and Mikey.

Look Who's Talking is a charming movie that I'm sure won't disappoint you, it's cute, romantic, funny, and has a great cast. It's a realistic look at what happens with unplanned pregnancy and John Travolta's character, James, becomes the ultimate and unexpected hero of the movie. I hope that I meet a guy like James one day, he was just so lovable. I also adored Bruce Willis' voice, he was a perfect fit for Mikey. Kristy Alley, she plays the crazy mother, but you see all that her character goes through and you just feel awful for her. This is such a great movie, I highly recommend it if you get the chance to see it, it's a great classic.

7/10

"Look Who's Talking" was a box-office smash, mostly for the gimmick of the audience being able to hear the baby's inner thoughts. This gimmick, and some amusing fantasy sequences, help carry an otherwise ordinary and predictable story, though it does run out of steam. John Travolta gets to play a charming goofball, Kirstie Alley is in her prime, and Bruce Willis does some good voice work. It's strange: the film is pretty raunchy for "family entertainment", but it would have been funnier if it was even raunchier - which, of course, would cost it an R rating and a decrease in family tickets. **1/2 out of 4.

Look Who's Talking is one of my favourite "feelgood" movies - the kind you watch when you just want to sit back, laugh, and not have to think too much.

Kirstie Alley plays Mollie, a 30-something accountant who finds herself pregnant by her sleazy married boyfriend (played annoyingly well by George Segal). After he abandons her for yet another mistress, she meets James (John Travolta), the cabbie who drives her to the hospital when she goes into labour.

The story that follows is par for the romantic comedy course - James falls in love with both mother and baby, while Mollie (at least initially) only sees him as a platonic friend and babysitter/surrogate father figure for son Mikey. She searches relentlessly for a suitable father for the child - dating a series of losers and even briefly attempting a reconciliation with Mikey's bio-dad. It takes her awhile, but she finally realizes that the right man has been right under her nose the whole time.

Bruce Willis is a hoot as the voice of baby Mikey - and the little boys who play Mikey are suitably adorable. The soundtrack music is fantastic, featuring the likes of Janis Joplin, The Beach Boys, and the Talking Heads.

Alley and Travolta have amazing on-screen chemistry, whereas Alley and Segal have virtually none - which, of course, is the whole point. Olympia Dukakis also has some funny scenes as Alley's meddling mom; as does Abe Vigoda as Travolta's senile grandpa.

Alley's character Mollie may be a bit unsympathetic at first - she is, after all, the "other woman" in an extramarital affair. But before long, you find yourself rooting for her to find true love and a father for her son. The movie is not perfect - it has it's share of flaws. But overall, there's not much to dislike. It's just plain fun to watch. A definite thumbs-up.

A light comedy funny enough and special effects in utero that still hold on today. Cute film, kid and Kristie! The boy was Bruce Willis? Oh, just the voice. ouf! Travolta was flying in the film. What's not to like?

This movie stars talking babies...

But other than that the entire premise of this movie struck me as being more than a little dubious. This movie seemed to glamorize Section 8 single moms and made successful corporate tycoons seem like they are occasionally unfaithful to their spouses. Remembering McCarthyism all too well, this makes me wonder which side of the aisle the film makers were on... As a side, however, The computer graphics in this movie were amazing, but I didn't let the eye candy fool me into forgetting my core values. Hollywood can't tell me what to think, unless it has an awesome ending like Independence Day. The Musical score was also excellent. I didn't catch who did it because I was so displeased with the film itself during the credits, but kudos to whomever was involved!

I was confused why no one seemed to notice that Mikey could talk. This made me think that the movie would have a "Sixth Sense" kind of ending where we would find out that Mikey was actually dead the entire time which is why no one could hear him (but it didn't end this way, instead James and THE WELFARE QUEEN fell in love). I think this may have been the precursor to Baby's Day Out (which I haven't seen yet, but I've played the game Baby's Day Out on NES...very challenging...)

Amy Heckerling teeters on developing a true cinematic master piece. Alley and Travolta deliver an inspiring performance all of which is supplemented with the quirky and always funny voice-overs from Bruce Willis as Mikey. The film is almost perfect to me, but it was lacking in one element. The lack of presence of any werewolves, whatsoever, in this film is truly disheartening in what would otherwise be a timeless classic. Eager in anticipation watching this film, I was long awaiting the Travolta, werewolf transformation scene. This scene would never come. There were clear opportunities for this during night time scenes where Heckerling had a golden opportunity to write in a full moon sequence but this was unfortunately lost in translation. Given the comical voice-overs from Willis as Mikey, it would have been exponentially superior if we would have had a voice over from Travolta as the Werewolf. The potential gold mine of the introspection of a werewolf would have been a truly novel experience. To truly understand the full character arc of the werewolf transformation was my life's dream and it was crushed by Heckerling. My general understanding is I watched the theatrical version of the film but it dawned on me that there may have been an extended/unrated version, one which may have contained considerably more werewolves, by considerably more, I would quantify this as no less than two werewolves in totality, one of which would be the protagonist werewolf and another werewolf which would have been the arch-nemesis werewolf who is physically superior in every way to the protagonist werewolf but would inevitably be defeated by the protagonist werewolf (Travolta?) in probably the finale of 4th or 5th sequel to the film. Ultimately, I have to give this film a 7 out of 10 due to a lack of werewolves, the only saving grace is the talking baby which borderline nearly as terrifying as the presence of a werewolf to be fair.

Look Whos Talking is a good movie,its not fantastic its not a laugh out loud ninety minutes of comedy gold but its good and its much better than the the sequels Look Whos Talking Too and Look Whos Talking Now and I thought John Travolta did a brilliant performance as James and doing the voice of the baby Mikey as hes talking in his head and thinks that the adults understand him.

A woman has an affair with a married man and decides that its wrong and breaks it up although the man doesn't want to end it,she then finds out a few days later at the hospital that he got her pregnant,but she hates him and doesn't want him to see the child when hes born and pretends to people that she got pregnant by freezing sperm.

When she gets into a taxi her water breaks and she gets the taxi driver to take her to the hospital(taxi driver named James played by John Travolta),when the baby's born she tries tries to find the perfect dad for her son Mikey (voiced by John Travolta) while Mikey provides wisecracking commentary,when she goes on the dates she gets James to babysit and Mikey starts to think that hes his dad.

|Credit. IMDb| Mollie is a single mum who's on the lookout for a reliable and normal boyfriend. Her son Mikey, (unbeknownst to her) seems to have a better idea of which of the men she dates would make a good father figure! If only she could understand him...

Despite it's somewhat classical reputation among moviegoers, I never got a chance to see this movie. Look Who's Talking isn't a classic, far from it. But damn it sure is funny and cute to watch. I can't recall how many occasions I laughed in the 1st half, especially the moment where Mikey rips off a hairpiece of a person Kirstie Alley was dating. This movie's key to success is the great chemistry between John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. They are both likable, and felt real together. While Bruce Willis is hilariously smart-assed as the voice of Mikey. Slight criticism? The 1st half is much better than the 2nd, as the 2nd half gets a bit redundant, and wears thin.

Performances. John Travolta is very charismatic, and gives a fun show here. He had me laughing a lot, and I enjoyed his performance. Kirstie Alley is engaging and fun to watch here. Before she became infamous for Jenny Craig, this was a sample of how good she could be. Olympia Dukakis is funny as the nonchalant Mom. George Seagal plays a sleaze ball wonderfully.

Bottom line. This is just fun entertainment, nothing more. It stumbles a bit in the 2nd half, but I think that was to be expected. Not looking forward to the sequels, due to the horrible reviews. But if they are even half as funny and entertaining as this one. I'll be pleased.

7/10