The Worst Movie Sequel of All Time

Movie sequels, like cover songs, are a cheap way out. Instead of coming up with something original, the producers take an idea and milk it for all it's worth. Now sometimes sequels work, such as in Back to the Future II when you see the two Marty McFlys. When I was a kid I thought that was nifty.

Now I know that many movie sequels have been disasters, and there's really no shortage to choose from, but I would like to go with a little outside-the-box thinking here and say that the worst movie sequel of all time was... are you ready for this? It was....

Look Who's Talking Too.

Allow me to explain. The first Look Who's Talking was actually a very good movie, and I say this as a guy who does not particularly care for chick flicks. The dialogue was witty, Kirstie Alley was still popular in her pre-Dancing With the Stars days, and John Travolta did a fine job as well. You had the baby talking, but you know what? You didn't need it. Even if the baby had not "said" a word, it would have been a successful movie because it was well-written and paced very nicely.

Here's where the producers went wrong - they attributed the movie's success to the baby's "talking." No! If anything, that slowed the movie and in my not-so-humble opinion, did the film a disservice. Maybe the eight year old kiddies in the crowd thought it was cute, but I, for one, was unamused.

So these morons went ahead and made a movie where the little boy gets a sister. OK, OK, I enjoyed the part where they showed the boy getting envious of his baby sis while the John Lennon classic Jealous Guy played, but that was more because of the music than the movie itself. Otherwise, all the charm of the first movie had been sucked out and it was a drag. If I didn't fall asleep then I walked out of the theater out of sheer boredom.

And then the geniuses decided to make yet a third movie entitled Look Who's Talking Now a few years later. That one featured talking dogs. Ugh! No wonder everybody said that John Travolta's career was dead in the toilet until his Pulp Fiction performance revived it.

It's a real shame. Had they made another Look Who's Talking without the dumb premise of the babies talking, who knows. But they got bogged down with their stupidity and ruined what could have been a nice run.