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Jack (Robert De Niro), left, Kevin (Owen Wilson) and Greg (Ben Stiller) confront a construction con man (Harvey Keitel) in the sequel “Little Fockers.” |
Forget about what’s really in that holiday fruitcake.
The biggest mystery of the holiday season is how three Oscar-winning actors — the greatest performers of their generation — willingly stood in front of movie cameras and recited the infantile, repetitive dialogue in this really, really, really, really dumb sequel to the funny 2000 comedy “Meet the Parents.”
If you laugh uproariously at the naughty-sounding title “Little Fockers,” you’ll probably like this movie, because it thrives on having characters constantly say the name over and over, as if it’s so funny it bears endless repetition.
“Little Fockers” also traffics in jokes based on flatulence and testicular violence, two reliably effective humor devices generally embraced by filmmakers devoid of imagination and wit.
Then, the film attempts to squeeze comic mileage out of senior citizens and little kids talking naughty about sex!
Hardee-har-har.
“Little Fockers” is the second sequel to a remake of the 1991 indie film “Meet the Parents” shot right here in the Northwest suburbs and Indiana. It bears little resemblance to the sequels “Meet the Fockers” and “Little Fockers.”
The “Little” plot continues the war of wills between male nurse Greg Focker (again played by Ben Stiller) and his secretive father-in-law, retired military intelligence agent Jack Brynes (again played by Robert De Niro, Oscar-winner No. 1). (Read more…)