Review

This painfully unfunny, sugar-coated "comedy" about the travails of a rich family will send hypoglycemics into shock and anyone else possessing an even mildly cynical nature to seek out a large barf bag. A follow-up to the 1991 hit and based on the screenplay of the 1951 film Father's Little Dividend, this flimsy excuse for a movie stars Martin as George Banks, the grumpy and whiny husband of Nina (an often-in-soft-focus Keaton), the 1950s idea of the perfect wife. The premise is that both his wife and daughter become pregnant (and that's it folks -- that's the plot -- they each deliver a baby and then the movie ends!). Short and Wong return from the '91 original reprising their offensive roles as swishy and shrill decorators.