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Ever since the release of Meet The Fockers, there have been a lot of rumours about a third instalment in the series and, to be perfectly honest, I didn't really think it was a great idea especially when they only just survived critically with Meet The Fockers even though I prefer that one over Meet The Parents and quite frankly, it was literally everything that I was expecting it to be. I knew that because the predecessor and this one have a 6 year gap, I did think it would lose tone and then would have the same jokes with nothing different added to it. I think there was one thing that was absolute genius about this film and that was the title of the film. It is an absolutely fantastic title because yeah the kids names are Focker but kids really can be little fuckers at times! So the title is both extraordinary and hilarious. We had not seen them in the previous two and this one led to the family's lives with the kids here now.
It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg/Gaylord to finally get "in" with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions about his favourite male nurse come roaring back when he begins to get suspicious about Greg cheating on Pam with new work colleague Andi. When Greg and Pam's entire clan-including Pam's lovelorn ex, Kevin descends for the twins' birthday party, Greg must prove to the sceptical Jack that he's fully capable as the man of the house. But with all the misunderstandings, spying and covert missions, will Greg pass Jack's final test and become the family's next patriarch...or will the circle of trust be broken for good?
Robert De Niro is the perfect actor for the Jack Byrnes character but I am afraid to say that despite it is Robert De Niro, I thought he slightly lost his charm with the character and neither bought anything new and extraordinary to the character and didn't bring out anything that we hadn't seen before so I think he was on the edge of both of them. He wasn't bad, though, despite that. I love Ben Stiller in these films! He was brilliant once again as Greg/Gaylord Focker. I mean, both De Niro and Stiller certainly do make a great duo but because I wasn't entirely impressed with De Niro in this one, couldn't fully get to grips with the fantastic duo that we saw in the two predecessors. I just cannot stand Owen Wilson. He is an idiot who just cannot act (except Marley & Me perhaps) but because he was in this one more than Meet The Parents and Meet The Fockers, that was another reason why I sort of felt slightly put off by this third instalment. Not only did Jessica Alba make the audience feel worse for the relationship between Greg/Gaylord and Pam, she made our eyes burn with her admittedly gorgeous body but also her lousy acting! All I think of Andi's character is just a greedy, careless, dirty slut, nothing more. Daisy Tahan and Colin Baiocchi were actually very good as twins Samantha and Henry Focker.
Ok, so Jay Roach wasn't the director of Little Fockers this time like he was of Meet The Parents and Meet The Fockers although he did produce it again, like the first two films. Paul Weitz, who is perhaps the poorer director out of him and his brother Chris Weitz was chosen to direct this one and I have to say that most scenes were weakly handled and rather irresponsible on occasions. Paul previously did films such as Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, American Pie and About A Boy so I guess he has had experience with comedies but not really with a hugely successful one, though. Out of those films that he has done in the past, I would say that Little Fockers is his weakest project thus far. The script was rather soppy throughout most of the film but there were some interesting moments in the film too.
Overall, Little Fockers is a decent film that I did enjoy despite its extremely deep flaws and it's overdone dialogue. This needs to be the last of the series because I think it ended decent enough even though I still think that Little Fockers was rather irrelevant anyway and Meet The Fockers was a great film with a great, solid ending. There are great performances from most of the cast (except Wilson and Alba as predicted) but direction and script was rather lame. It is just a guilty pleasure that I would just watch for entertainment, nothing more.
