Three Men and a Baby | | Cast : | Tom Selleck, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson | | Director : | Leonard Nimoy | | Studio : | Touchstone Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | November 25, 1987 | | DVD Released Date : | July 01, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | Buy "Three Men and a Little Lady" instead | Content
 | This is one of those rare situations where the sequel is significantly better than the original film.
"Three Men and a Baby" is a girl flick -- silly plot, cute baby, three men pretending acting like Alan Alda (i.e., effeminate), enough to make any reasonable person want to throw up.
"Three Men and a Little Lady" is infinitely superior, and funnier. I never thought much of Ted Danson until I saw the final scene in this film, in which he plays a senile Anglican priest -- a comic masterpiece that is alone worth the price of the disk.
Alternatively, consider buying "Three Men and a Cradle," the French film upon which "Three Men and a Baby" was based. It has received significantly better reviews. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 29, 2005 | | Summary | Some cute scenes, but not enough to recommend it | Content
| The only two stars of this movie (three, if you consider the baby was played by twins) are the baby and Tom Selleck. Steve Gutenberg comes off as a loud, immature pinhead. And Ted Danson is hardly in the movie at all, and when he does get any time it's primarily for sight gags rather than any sort of well-scripted humor.
In addition, the women are all the worst possible human beings you could imagine. Starting with Gutenberg's "girlfriend" who is just sleeping around to get back at her boyfriend, continuing with Selleck's shallow and self-centered girlfriend, and ultimately ending up with the worst of the lot, the irresponsible mother of the baby (Danson's old squeeze).
None of the actors except Selleck put any effort into actually trying to act. Steve Gutenberg seems to believe that acting is merely the act of TALKING REALLY LOUDLY. When the baby first arrives on their doorstep, it was unbearable trying to watch Gutenberg and Selleck try to out-yell each other. Danson doesn't seem to be quite sure what he's supposed to be doing and so he stands around looking confused for most of the movie.
Only Tom Selleck's warmth comes across as genuine, and those scenes where he's interacting with the baby make this movie watchable. In several places, such as when he suggests the baby's mother move in with the men, you can see him squirming at the utter ridiculousness of the situation. But he pushes through and carries this movie in fits and starts through to a relatively lukewarm ending.
In addition, the anti-women message damages much of the interplay between the male and female characters. The women in this movie have no redeeming qualities whatsoever, yet the men fawn over them like they are under a spell. Even at the end of the story when the mother of the baby returns to take the baby home to England, the men just accept it as fate rather than invoke the father's right to the baby. The idiotic compromise is to have the mother move in with the men as if they were all one happy family despite the irresponsibility and immaturity of the flighty mother.
The scenes are well-shot because the camera direction is very good, but the actor direction is very bad. It seems like Nimoy didn't know what to do with each character and the movie really flounders because of that.
Even Tom Selleck's good performance can't pull the rest of the movie above two stars. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 08, 2005 | | Summary | Wonderful Movie three men and a baby | Content
| Wonderful movie, I just loved it. The plot is great and the actors have such energy. It is a clean movie that everyone can enjoy. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 06, 2005 | | Summary | Great Film with Infamous Scenes | Content
| the ghostly image is not present when the actors enter the room. when the actors leave the room the ghostly image is there. from what i read and saw on this topic, this scene was shot in one take. further, there were only the actors, a cameraman and selected few others (director Leonard Nimoy being one) in that room at the time of the filming. no children were present on the set. the image was not caught by the filmmakers because it was not visible to the human eye. nor did the editors of the film see the image simply because they were not expecting it.
this topic was discussed very briefly after the film's release on various entertainment shows. if you weren't in the right place at the right time, you won't know the true story as reported by direct sources to the film only once, then stifled by various sources to protect the family of the deceased boy.
the cardboard cutout story just doesn't hold water and is obviously fabricated. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 10, 2004 | | Summary | Great Family Friendly Movie | Content
| Ah, the Eighties. The soundtrack of this movie alone brings a nostalgic tear to my eye. Okay, this movie didn't blow us away with its depiction of bachelorhood, but it did make me laugh, and what more can a person really want in a movie? Steve Guttenberg, Tom Selleck, and Ted Danson are the Three Muskateers Plus Baby. By the way, when compared to its sequel, Three Men and a Little Lady, this movie DOES look like a masterpiece. Good movie -- one you can certainly enjoy with your own little ones, and Grandma and Grandpa. |
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