The original My Girl was winning enough, apart from its mawkish ending. But this sequel is a loser: a dull and pointless account of how 13-year-old Vada researches into the life of her mother, who died when she was born. Under Howard Zieff's direction, the acting is at best all-round modest as Vada goes to California and meets a series of boringly colourful characters in her search for facts on mom. Efforts at romance between Anna Chlumsky and Austin O' Brien (as her teenage companion) are excruciatingly embarrassing - if you're still awake, that is. Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis should be grateful that they're only in this supremely tedious exercise for the first 15 minutes. If you have to see this, watch for an early continuity slip when Vada's friend removes her glasses on the approach of a boy - the director blissfully unaware that she hadn't been wearing them in the scene in the first place.

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