The Sunday Leader By Sumaya Samarasinghe
Sometimes intellectual depth isn’t really what one is seeking in a movie after a long week at work.
But of late, comedies have been predictable and become awfully boring before even they reach the half way mark. Little Fockers is the third film which follows the adventures of the Focker and Byrnes families after Meet The Parents ( 2000) which was about male nurse Greg Focker (an excellent Ben Stiller) who meets his fiancé’s parents before proposing to her and is far from welcome by his future father in law played by a traumatising Robert de Niro.
The film was followed by Meet The Fockers ( 2004) which suffered a severe plot degradation despite the presence of Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand. Little Fockers as the title indicates is about the latest generation of Fockers and completely loses its plot about 45 minutes to one hour into the story. The corny moments are heavily accompanied by corny music and not even the talent of all the great actors in the film (We are talking here Robert de Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Blyth Danner, Barbara Streisand…), nor the drop dead beautiful Jessica Alba could stop one from pressing on the fast forward button and wanting the film to wrap up!
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