Steve Martin is back as George Banks, and if it wasn't bad enough that his daughter is grown up and taken away from him, now it turns out that she is pregnant and wanting to move away when the baby is born. So he puts the house up for sale - he is moving to the beach.
In a classic bit, the house sells way too quickly (the buyer is Eugene Levy in a small but funny role), but before he knows it his own wife is pregnant and he needs that space. So the buyer offers to sell it back, but only for a profit of one hundred thousand dollars. Not bad for a day's work.
Not wanting to see his house be torn down (and also to get back in his wife's good graces), George relents, and buys the house back. He also builds a baby suite and caters to both his wife and daughter for the next nine months.
Returning to aggravate George - and build the baby suite - is Franck (Martin Short), and like the wedding in Father of the Bride, the costs rapidly spiral out of sight, so that increased cost for the house soon seems like nothing.
But eventually, both babies come due at pretty much exactly the same time and George has taken some of Franck's sleeping pills, so he can't be roused. Of course, hilarity ensues and everything turns out just fine. That's the way it is in these movies, but it's also part of the charm.
Rated PG for some mild language and thematic elements.
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