Three Men and a Little Lady ** (1990, Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Nancy Travis) – Classic Movie Review 3560

Emile Ardolino directs a feeble 1990 sequel to the 1987 baby blockbuster comedy Three Men and a Baby, happily with all the appealing four stars returning. But, alas, Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson and Nancy Travis are pretty much the only attraction this time.

In Charlie Peters’s screenplay, the banal plot sends the bachelor fathers to a bizarre fantasy England where everyone is stupid or nasty. The bachelor buddies, architect Peter, artist Michael and actor Jack (Selleck, Guttenberg, Danson) zoom over from America to stop the mother (Travis) of their adopted kid marrying a caddish English actor (Christopher Cazenove).

British players Christopher Cazenove, Sheila Hancock, Fiona Shaw and Jonathan Lynn deserve better material, though unfortunately their performances here don’t do the movie any favours. The strained story is by Sara Parriott and Josann McGibbon.

Ardolino directs a flop sequel to a comedy blockbuster here, but he went on to make a comedy blockbuster of his own, Sister Act (1992), which ironically had another director making a flop sequel.

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