
Double-crossed, the lovelorn and very pregnant New York City accountant, Mollie, gets into James' cab and rushes to the hospital to give birth, after a failed attempt at love with a sleazy and self-centred businessman. Suddenly, Mollie is a single working mum--and what is even more disheartening--she has to embark on the nearly impossible quest to unearth the ideal father for her outspoken boy, Mikey. Could the perfect father be James, Mikey's favourite babysitter?... (Full plot summary below)
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Double-crossed, the lovelorn and very pregnant New York City accountant, Mollie, gets into James' cab and rushes to the hospital to give birth, after a failed attempt at love with a sleazy and self-centred businessman. Suddenly, Mollie is a single working mum--and what is even more disheartening--she has to embark on the nearly impossible quest to unearth the ideal father for her outspoken boy, Mikey. Could the perfect father be James, Mikey's favourite babysitter?
Leave your thoughts about Look Who's Talking.
| Needcoffee.comWidgett WallsA cute movie that heralded the return of Travolta and unfortunately also spawned a franchise that would not die. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertLook Who's Talking is full of good feeling, and director Amy Heckerling finds a light touch for her lightweight material. |
| Common Sense MediaKelly KesslerEnjoyable first film in the "talking baby" genre. |
| Washington PostRoger PiantadosiHeckerling's central hokum is definitely silly, based on the notion that Mikey (and all babies, in fact) has somewhat adult, slightly cynical thoughts on everything that goes on around him, from conception to end credits -- and that these thoughts and embryonic wisecracks and creative interpretations are heard only by the audience via the aptly cast voice of overgrown kid Willis. |
| Los Angeles TimesChris WillmanHeckerling still has some of the sensitivity she showed in handling actors in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and she has a deft way of illustrating her heroine's fantasies about possible mates without any fuss. |
| San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackDespite the amiable charms of the central couple of Cheers' Kirstie Alley and a back-from-the-dead John Travolta, it is director Heckerling's goofy willingness to let her imagination run riot that prevents her film from sinking into soap. |
| VarietyVariety StaffLike a standup comic pouring 'flopsweat', this ill-conceived comedy about an infant whose thoughts are given voice by actor Bruce Willis palpitates with desperation. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrCute is the operative word for the movie, which stars some good actors doing material that is not super. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonA lot of this stuff is irresistible. In the early going especially, the movie's infantilism is snappy and surprising. But this is a great idea for a sketch, not a feature, and if Heckerling had resisted padding it out, it might have made a brilliant short. A comedy can ride only so far on high concept. It has to deliver the jokes, and this one doesn't. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversThis flabby comedy deserves only one thing: to fall on its fat one. |