Problem Child 3

Problem Child 3 (also known as Problem Child 3: Junior in Love) is a 1995 American made-for-television film, and the second sequel to 1990's Problem Child.

Plot
A preteen Junior Healy falls in love with a girl from school, but must deal with three other boys after her heart.

Why It's Still a Problem

 * 1) William Katt is a poor replacement for John Ritter as Ben Healey.
 * 2) Junior is still wearing his bowtie, despite throwing it away to the river at the end of the first film.
 * 3) Trixie and her mother Annie are nowhere to be seen, and the happy ending of the second film (where Ben became a couple with Annie) is ignored.
 * 4) Cheesy romantic scenes.
 * 5) Convoluted story.
 * 6) No explanation for what happened to Ben and Junior after their car crash.
 * 7) Weak humor.
 * 8) A brief shot of a prostitute during Ben's moment of doubt inside his head.
 * 9) The way Ben and Junior win the relay race gives the message of "It's OK to cheat, but only if it helps you to win."
 * 10) False advertising: On the poster it shows Junior and Tiffany tying up someone to a chair with a bag over his head, but that never happened in the movie.
 * 11) It has incredibly bad voice cast for the Latin American Spanish dub.
 * 12) It appears to have killed the Problem Child film series.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) This film introduced torture porn in the form of Peabody and Kiki being tied by Junior with their own braces and floss.
 * 2) Justin Chapman does an okay job as Junior Healey, though still not as good as Michael Oliver.

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Trivia

 * Gilbert Gottfried and Jack Warden are the only actors to appear in all three films.
 * Due to financial issues, the filmmakers were unable to use the first two films' theme song "Bad to the Bone" by George Thorogood. So, they used a reproduced version by David Michael Frank instead.
 * The film was originally scheduled for a theatrical release during the Christmas 1994 season, but executives at Universal decided to premiere the movie on television to avoid competition at theaters with other movies like The Santa Clause, Miracle on 34th Street, Star Trek: Generations, and Richie Rich.