Little Fockers (2010)

Family-patriarch Jack Byrnes wants to appoint a successor. Does his son-in-law, the male nurse Greg Focker have what it takes?

Director:

Paul Weitz

Writers:

John Hamburg, Larry Stuckey,

Stars:

Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson

3 wins & 3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Robert De Niro	...	Jack Byrnes
Ben Stiller	...	Greg Focker
Owen Wilson	...	Kevin Rawley
Dustin Hoffman	...	Bernie Focker
Barbra Streisand	...	Roz Focker
Blythe Danner	...	Dina Byrnes
Teri Polo	...	Pam Focker
Jessica Alba	...	Andi Garcia
Laura Dern	...	Prudence
Kevin Hart	...	Nurse Louis
Daisy Tahan	...	Samantha Focker
Colin Baiocchi	...	Henry Focker
Thomas McCarthy	...	Dr. Bob (as Tom McCarthy)
Harvey Keitel	...	Randy Weir
Yul Vazquez	...	Junior

Storyline

It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam, and countless hurdles for Greg 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, however, Jack's suspicions about his favorite male nurse come roaring back. When Greg and Pam's entire clan--including Pam's lovelorn ex, Kevin (Owen Wilson)--descends for the twins' birthday party, Greg must prove to the skeptical 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?

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Plot Keywords:

male nurse | birthday | suspicion | misunderstanding | webcam | 

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Taglines:

Kids bring everyone closer, right?

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for mature sexual humor throughout, language and some drug content

Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 December 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Meet These Little Fockers

Filming Locations:

Chicago Hilton & Towers - 720 S. Michigan Avenue, Downtown, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$100,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£3,035,717 (UK) (24 December 2010)

Gross:

$148,383,780 (USA) (11 March 2011)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Relativity Media

Technical Specs

Runtime:

98 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital SDDS DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Raven-Symoné was originally rumored to have a role.

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Goofs

When Jack Byrnes searches on Google, location contains search condition "jack burns" while Google search field contains "jack byrnes." Also the screen is from Internet Explorer while search has the Safari browser as the client.

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Quotes

Andi Garcia: Belly flop!

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Crazy Credits

The end credits sequence has a scene where Jack watches a remixed video of Greg on Youtube making fun of Jack at a press conference.

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Connections

Featured in Great Movie Mistakes III: Not in 3D (2011)

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Soundtracks

"Get Your Hands Up"
Written by Ali Dee (as Ali Theodore), Zach Danziger, Alana Da Fonseca,
Sarai Howard
Performed by The DeeKompressors
Produced by Ali Dee (as Ali "Dee" Theodore) for DeeTown Entertainment
Courtesy of DeeTown Entertainment

User Reviews

Oh just fock off.

I would love to become a film writer/director, but I often suffer self-doubts on whether I can write anything good or come up with a good idea. Weirdly Little Fockers gives me hope because I know that least I try hard with an idea and do not settle for less like the writers of Little Fockers.

Little Fockers is set five years after the events of Meet the Fockers. Greg (Ben Stiller) and Pam (Teri Polo) are happily married and have five year old twins, Sam (Daisy Tahan) and Henry (Colin Baiocchi). But after Jack (Robert De Niro) has a heart attack, he decides that that Byrnes family needs a new patriarch: Greg is the only man available for the job. Jack makes Greg perform tasks to prove him, by getting his kids into a good school and make himself financially secure. To do that Greg moonlights to promote a new Viagra drug for heart patients after being recruited by sexy pharmaceutical representative Andi Garcia (Jessica Alba). But there is distrust because of her good looks.

Now I confess that I am not a big fan of the 'Meet the Parents' series and the only reason I went to see it with people was because there were no good screening times for Tron Legacy or The Way Back. I had low exceptions and Little Fockers met them. Little Fockers follows the same formula of accidents and misunderstandings, with Greg and Jack constantly fighting and mistrust: surely wouldn't men have learn by now, they are meant to smart. Most of the humour is juvenile, mostly farting related. Fine for young kids, but at the same time there are a lot of sex jokes which takes away the family audience. This type of comedy and this series is stale: it is another example of a film franchise becoming too successful for its own good.

Little Fockers was directed by Paul Weitz, the less talented brother of Chris Weitz (the director of The Golden Compass and New Moon). It was obviously with his workman like direction and a lack of care in about the script and the performances that he made this film just for the money: well there is a recession. There was nothing inventive about this film.

Performance wise there isn't much to say, all the regular actors do their usual routine. This is one of Stiller's worst film, he needs to make more films like Tropic Thunder and I do wonder if Robert De Niro made a deal with the devil, he could star in films like the Godfather Part 2 and Raging Bull, but in the later had to make this rubbish. I hope Martin Scorsese comes in and saves his career. Owen Wilson was on auto-pilot and Jessica Alba was in the film just because of her looks. Surely Alba should get a better agent because all she does is strip off in her films (as a man I enjoy it, but as an enlightened person there has got to be more to her then her body).

Basically the only highlight of the film was the use of a smart child for some of the comedy: smart children are often more funny then dumb children in films.