If Stakeout is a bubble gum movie, what's this - a candyfloss movie? ('More sugar and more holes' as Q quipped.) It certainly begins in an identical way to the first one, for some lazy, reassuring reason, but then turns into a different thing, with Rosie O'Donnell from the DA's office joining them on the stakeout and acting as a surrogate mother figure. Is it possible it's actually better than the original?
They certainly went to town on the house being blown up.
Er, nice dog, too, quite well assimilated into the story, which is by Jim Kouf.
With Dennis Farina, Cathy Moriarty, Marcia Strassman, Miguel Ferrer (Twin Peaks, Traffic, son of José Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney).
Glossily photographed by Roy H. Wagner (in Panavision) in that cinéma du look style which had crept in from France, giving the bubble gum its requisite sheen.
Bit of a shame to see Dreyfuss in stuff like this after his eighties heyday.
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