As an idea for a series, this is fairly dangerous, and I for one feared the worst at the end of the film, with Dan Aykroyd nervously waiting in the corridor outside the maternity ward. Scrutinizing the popularity of the first film, perhaps the producers thought it depended on gentle sentimentality, in which a likable young girl deals with the loss of loved ones. "My Girl 2" seems inspired mostly by the opportunity to recycle the title of a successful film.
The original "My Girl" was a charming gem, a movie that was really about something - about an 11-year-old discovering some of the secrets of life, death, love and unselfishness. It creeps along under power of manufactured subplots, including the lame attempts of a sports car owner ( Gerrit Graham) to seduce Ebersole right out of her boyfriend's auto shop. If the characters are interesting, however, the story is not. There are also happy chances, as when they go looking for a poetry professor who once taught the mother, and find him sitting on the sidewalk at a portable table, writing poetry. Realists in the audience may question the wisdom of these two children visiting Hollywood Boulevard after dark, or journeying all over town on the bus, but hey, this is a movie, and, of course, the trail leads to all sorts of interesting people, including the late mom's old friends, theatrical associates, and even an early love (touchingly well-played by John David Souther).
Together the two kids explore the city, seeking clues about a woman who died around 1960. The brother ( Richard Masur) lives with his girlfriend ( Christine Ebersole) and her son ( Austin O'Brien, from " Last Action Hero"), who is, of course, just about Vada's age. But he has a brother there, who runs a luxury car repair shop, and he entrusts Vada to his care. and who wouldn't (although the movie is set in the balmy old days of 1972). Aykroyd is paranoid about allowing his barely pubescent daughter go alone to L.A. Consumed by curiosity about her own origins, she decides to do a school research project about her late mother, and spends her lifetime's savings for a five-day trip to Los Angeles, where her mother grew up.
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