r/fixingmovies - Silvia's Mother should be the antagonist

https://www.reddit.com/r/fixingmovies/comments/p8vfns/three_men_and_a_little_lady_silvias_mother_should/

So 1990's Three Men and a Little Lady is a sequel to 1987's Three Men and a Baby, Starring Ted Danson, Tom Selleck, and Steve Guttenberg. The original is a fun, heartfelt (if a little corny) family movie with an interesting crime subplot tacked on. The Sequel is kind of a mess (check out the wiki for a synopsis of you need one, I'm not going to type it all out) in which the Three father's of Mary have been co-parenting with her mother Silvia perfectly for the past 5 years since the first movie (making the sequel canonically take place in 1992). The conflict of the movie is that Silvia decides to get married pretty much out of nowhere, for more or less no good reason, and Tom Selleck just doesn't tell her he's into her, for no real reason. The plot is just a giant series of contrivances which all seem out of character all to facilitate going to England and becoming a comedy about stuffy British aristocrats for some reason. And the stuffy British Aristocrat comedy isn't even executed that well. It also felt like they were setting up Silvia's Mother (who disapproves of The Three Men) as some kind of antagonist, but nothing comes of her disapproval.

My fix is to remove Silvia and England from the movie all together, and replace the central tension with a custody battle instead of a marriage.