As any engineer will tell you, bumblebees are not aerodynamically sound, they should not be able to fly. But they do.This film is a single-premise, hi-concept, logline: the smartest person in the room is the newborn, and he "talks" to the audience.The reason why this is a classic (yes it is!) is the talent: Amy Heckerling, at her peak, when she was the "next big thing." Kirstie Alley, also at her peak, before she disappeared from theatrical releases and reappeared as a spokesperson for Weight Watchers Travolta at the peak of his "first career" (he had a second career 5 years later with Pulp Fiction, a second career that carried him into the next century, literally) And -- my fave -- Bruce Willis just before he exploded onto the big screen. If you do the "Hollywood math" (inside joke) you will conclude that this deal was cut and signed before the box office results of Die Hard were known. Die Hard of course sent him into the stratosphere and voice work would be secondary for him from this point on, EVEN THOUGH HE WAS GREAT AT IT. In fact one of my top films of all time, OVER THE HEDGE (2006) has Bruce in it.Fun flick. Much better than it sounds. MUCH

Look Who's Talking (1989) *** 1/2 (out of 4) Highly entertaining comedy centering on a single mother (Kirstie Alley) who plans on finding her son (voice of Bruce Willis) the perfect daddy after his real father refuses to have anything to do with him. She tries out a few men not realizing the relationship her son has started with the babysitter (John Travolta). The entire idea of this movie seems like a major mess so it really comes as a great shock to see how loving, caring and downright adorable the picture is. The idea of a single mom trying to find a father for a baby who we constantly get voice-overs from isn't the greatest story out there but the performances are so good, the laughs so big and the heart is in the right place and all of this really adds up to a rather special movie. A lot of the credit for the laughs has to go to Bruce Willis who does a very good job with the voice-overs. His comic timing is dead-on from start to finish but I think the most important thing was how child-like in nature he was. We've had dozens of movies that used voice-overs to try and get laughs but they usually fail because they either try too hard or the comedy is forced but that's never the case here because the work is done with such ease by Willis that you can't help but feel as if you're actually listening to how a real kid would think and talk. Alley is also very good in her part, although I'd probably argue that the screenplay could have toned down on some of her hard-edge because at times you start to question some of her character traits. Olympia Dukakis, George Segal and Abe Vigoda are all good in their small parts but I think the key to the film's success is the performance of Travolta. This was the GREASE stars first major role in years and it would also serve as his first comeback but of course the sequels would lead to his eventual fall before Tarantino rescued him once again. Either way, the performance here is so great that you really can't help but fall in love with his character. Travolta does a remarkable job at just being so adorable, so caring and so protective of the child that you want to see them together. Being a Travolta movie you can expect a dance sequence and how they pull it off here is incredibly fun and touching. Every single second of the movie is predictable from a scene where Travolta gives some "tips" to a guy looking to take Alley out to the ending but that really doesn't matter. Heart is a hard thing to get into any film let alone a comedy but this film really hits it out of the part. Mix in the terrific soundtrack and you've got a perfect little gem.

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

Look Who's Talking was released when I was a young boy and they could play it all day and I'd never get tired of it.What I liked most of all: Showing how hard it is as a single parent in today's challenging world and the quest for family (I read a review from a biblical perspective and it was kind of harsh although it was balanced out very well) It also showed the fact that people cheat and many times the women in the relationship get screwed in more ways than one. I love the opening scene when they show the sperm fertilizing the eggs (if you are a parent and can't talk to your kids about where babies come from, play this scene. It's educational and entertaining) I also liked the fact that they showed Grandpa Ubriacco and James trying to find him a decent home. This film was well written and this is one of the best films that never gets old, dull or stupid. Anyone who thinks so doesn't have half a brain.It shows how some Fathers can be (biological) and never be there and how some men are selfish while others would be. I LOVED the scenes where she's dating all those men and showing us how they are My ultimate favorite scene is the one where she's on the clock and her biological clock is ticking. This scene I liked because it put such a hilarious spin on something for men, that wouldn't be seen as much of a problem. I also loved Olympia Dukakkis in this movie also.Everything was well written and well thought out and Amy Heckerling did a great job of directing, I'm not sure if she wrote. Another good one of hers is Johnny Dangerously.I absolutely loved Bruce Willis's voice of Mikey. He was the perfect voice for him.This film rocks! It's better than a lot of these crappy remakes Hollywood is responsible for, and still funny though it's almost as old as me