Amy Heckerling teeters on developing a true cinematic master piece. Alley and Travolta deliver an inspiring performance all of which is supplemented with the quirky and always funny voice-overs from Bruce Willis as Mikey. The film is almost perfect to me, but it was lacking in one element. The lack of presence of any werewolves, whatsoever, in this film is truly disheartening in what would otherwise be a timeless classic. Eager in anticipation watching this film, I was long awaiting the Travolta, werewolf transformation scene. This scene would never come. There were clear opportunities for this during night time scenes where Heckerling had a golden opportunity to write in a full moon sequence but this was unfortunately lost in translation. Given the comical voice-overs from Willis as Mikey, it would have been exponentially superior if we would have had a voice over from Travolta as the Werewolf. The potential gold mine of the introspection of a werewolf would have been a truly novel experience. To truly understand the full character arc of the werewolf transformation was my life's dream and it was crushed by Heckerling. My general understanding is I watched the theatrical version of the film but it dawned on me that there may have been an extended/unrated version, one which may have contained considerably more werewolves, by considerably more, I would quantify this as no less than two werewolves in totality, one of which would be the protagonist werewolf and another werewolf which would have been the arch-nemesis werewolf who is physically superior in every way to the protagonist werewolf but would inevitably be defeated by the protagonist werewolf (Travolta?) in probably the finale of 4th or 5th sequel to the film. Ultimately, I have to give this film a 7 out of 10 due to a lack of werewolves, the only saving grace is the talking baby which borderline nearly as terrifying as the presence of a werewolf to be fair.
Review of Look Who's Talking
