Mollie Jensen (Kirstie Alley) is an accountant who has an affair with a married client, Albert (George Segal) and ends up getting pregnant.  At first, Albert has no interest in being a father but luckily, when Mollie goes into labor, she’s driven to the hospital by a down-on-his-luck taxi driver named James (John Travolta).  After little Mikey is born, James agrees to be Mikey’s babysitter in return for Mollie letting James use her address so he can set up nursing care for his grandfather (Abe Vigoda).  Mollie and James are falling in love but then Albert reenters the picture.  Will Mollie choose rich Albert or goofy James?

As if there’s any doubt!

The important this is not the story but that the story is narrated by Mikey and Mikey sounds just like Bruce Willis!

I will admit it.  I like Look Who’s Talking.

Hey, it’s cute!  It’s a movie that opens with a point of view shot of a herd of sperm heading for an egg.  Little sperm Mikey is so excited!  Even before Mikey is born, he’s giving us his opinions.  When he is born and they cut the umbilical cord, he says, “Hey, I need that!”  What newborn wouldn’t say that?  You’re comfortable and suddenly, you’re getting dragged into the real world.

What I really like about Look Who’s Talking is that we just hear Mikey’s narration and thoughts but Mikey himself doesn’t actually talk.  It’s not like those creepy commercials where they use cheap CGI to make it look like the babies are actually talking.  I hate those commercials.  Instead, we’re just hearing Mikey’s thoughts and his thoughts are probably the ones that most babies would have.  He just sounds like Bruce Willis.  John Travolta is adorable in this.  Kirstie Alley is neurotic and relatable.  The babies are all cute.  But the true star of the film is Bruce Willis’s voice.  Supposedly, Willis ad-libbed most of his lines.  Mikey’s crude but most babies are.

No, I haven’t seen the sequels.  I won’t ever see the sequels.  I get the feeling this is one of those movies that could only work once.  Didn’t the third movie feature talking animals and no Bruce Willis?  There’s no need for that.