Good story, Not enough for a whole film

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Both "Meet The Fockers" and "Meet The Parents" were funny movies and I enjoyed them a lot. I suppose you can hardly blame Hollywood for wanting to give it another go, but in this case I think they may have gone to the well once too often. "Little Fockers" (which I guess is a reference to the twins that Greg and Pam - played again by Ben Stiller and Teri Polo - now have) is at times a humorous movie, but it never really succeeded in getting much more than a chuckle out of me. Polo, at times at least, looked pretty disinterested in the part, and Stiller and Robert Deniro (as his ex-CIA agent father in law Jack Byrnes) stepped back into their roles, but the roles seemed tired. Jack is a character that can work once (and in the case of this series of movies, twice) but really there was nothing new for Jack to do in this movie. Throw in Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand (who were brought back as Greg's parents) and you have the same old cast in a movie that did seem "same old, same old."Jessica Alba was added to the cast as a pharmaceutical sales representative who recruits Greg to be the spokesman for a new erectile dysfunction drug, but I found it impossible to take her character seriously and she very quickly started to grate on me. Owen Wilson was also back as Kevin Rawley - a character who never much impacted me (aside from bugging me) anyway."Little Fockers" isn't a disaster. It's mildly amusing at times. It just seems tired and stale. Two Focker movies was probably more than enough. (4/10)

Little FockersThe maker takes too much time on setting the plot and characters (and there are so many in it) that neither the sub-plots nor the characters are interesting enough to hold to the thread.

Ben Stiller returns as male nurse Greg Focker in this second sequel to "Meet the Parents", this time with a new director (Paul Weitz, replacing Jay Roach) and more outrageous, mean-spirited humor to placate the masses. With humorless father-in-law Jack Byrnes suddenly suffering heart problems, Focker is now in-line to become leader of the family ("the Godfocker"), but a dalliance with a hot-to-trot pharmaceutical sales rep may put the newly-chummy relationship between the in-laws on thin ice. When a movie this filled with talent misses, the problems are more intrinsic than just a poor screenplay or a misguided hand behind the camera; the on-screen idiocy begins to seem insidious. In elongated cameos, Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand give the picture a little juice, though not enough to salvage what is otherwise a witless, arms-flailing affair--one that concludes with a fistfight at a children's birthday party. Fock this! NO STARS from ****

Just like everyone else has pointed out, the 3rd Fockers movie just sucked plain and simple. I just watched it at a friend's house the other night, and all I noticed myself NOT doing was laughing. Whenever a humorous part was about to happen, not only was it not funny, but it was so predictable, and you knew what was going to happen. You could tell for sure that the movie was trying hard to be funny, but when you know a movie tries hard to be funny, you know it's going to fail and that you won't get a single laugh out of it. I've seen the first one, but haven't seen all of the second one. All I know is that I got laughs out of the other two, but surely not this one. What a let down, and how humiliating that Robert De Niro gets a shot to the penis. Like that's how HARD they were trying to get you to laugh. But all I did was cringe when De Niro got stabbed in the dick with a needle.