Film Review: Little Fockers
Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) and wife Pam (Teri Polo) with their twin boys live in a Chicago neighborhood. Greg is a male nurse and is having difficulty with their finances. Greg finds a way to keep up with his finances by agreeing to help a sexy medical representative played by Jessica Alba sell an erectile-dysfunction drug known as Sustengo.
Greg’s father-in law Jack Byrnes, (Robert de Nero) newly recovered from his mild heart attack and wife Dina visit their home and designates Greg as his successor to the family patriarch. With his new designated role as patriarch of the family, Greg acts bossy but still continues to make mistakes along the way, making Jack dismayed. To keep Jack from further pestering him Greg injects a good dose of the Sustengo into Jack’s drug-enhanced boner while his son looked horrified.
The story line deals more about the continued opposition between Greg Focker and his father-in-law Jack Byrnes, so no friends with benefits there. Their fights are now more centered on antagonism, envy and insecurity instead of past fights about hidden cameras and secret agent antics.
The movie lacks many laugh moments with many subplots- an ex boyfriend played by Owen Wilson and Greg’s hippie parents played by Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand who appeared in and out of the story. The movie tried to focus more about a family situation where raising kids become a priority and the difficulties a family has to face in current times. The movie also deals with human emotions such as the value of children to their parents and also about family relationships.
However, there is combined dry and sarcastic humor, few genuine laughs and some tears. But then, since many people liked the first and second sequels, then this sequel would do just fine. It is still entertainment though not of the finest kind.
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