Quartile rating: 5/10 · 1 rating
When high-powered executive Samantha LeBon hatches a scheme to spend a romantic Christmas with her new employee – the unsuspecting, blithesome James – his wife, their kids and their two dogs, Rocks and Daphne, must rescue him before he makes a terrible mistake.
The third installment in the Look Who's Talking franchise abandons the talking baby gimmick in favor of talking dogs, a transparently desperate reinvention that feels thoroughly derivative and formulaic. The plot is a thin, predictable holiday comedy with a cookie-cutter seduction-and-rescue structure. The acting from Kirstie Alley and John Travolta is serviceable but uninspired, and the celebrity voice cast (Danny DeVito, Diane Keaton) is the film's main novelty hook — yet even that feels gimmicky rather than genuinely fresh. Cinematography is entirely pedestrian made-for-mainstream-comedy fare. The ending resolves exactly as expected with zero surprise. A low-effort sequel that earned its poor reputation.