Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
Just when George Banks has recovered from his daughter's wedding, he receives the news that she's pregnant ... and that George's wife is expecting too. He was planning on selling their home, but that's a plan that—like George—will have to change with the arrival of both a grandchild and a kid of his own.
Father of the Bride Part II is a cheerful but thoroughly formulaic sequel and remake (of Father's Little Dividend) that retreads familiar comedic ground without adding much new. The dual-pregnancy conceit generates mild laughs but the plot is thin and predictable throughout. Steve Martin and Diane Keaton deliver reliably warm performances that elevate the material somewhat, and the ensemble chemistry holds up, but no one is given anything challenging to work with. Visually the film is flat TV-movie-level work with no distinctive cinematographic choices. Novelty is genuinely low — it's derivative by design, recycling the first film's beats and adding a gimmick. The ending delivers the expected heartwarming payoff competently, which is what audiences came for, but it's by-the-numbers sentiment.