Bad Movie Beatdown: Little Fockers (REVIEW)

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=Originally posted December 8th, 2011; Re-edited version=
Film Brain delivers the Christmas turkey, the over-saturated stars are the stuffing. Season 3, Episode 33.
#MeetTheParents #LittleFockers #BenStiller #RobertDeNiro #JessicaAlba #Christmas #TeriPolo #BlytheDanner #OwenWilson #HarveyKeitel #KevinHart #DustinHoffman #BarbraStreisand #Xmas #LauraDern

[@FilmBrain]

This episode was originally posted in December 2011, and, as per usual, has been re-edited for this re-post, which tightens up the pacing and cuts down the film clips. Overall, this runs 1m 42s shorter than the original, and posted something of a challenge as it's a very dialogue-heavy film. This is the first of several Christmas episodes that are returning (and a few non-Christmas ones), so hope you enjoy!

[@thescottishnerd]

Film Brain may i ask are yiu going to make any new episodes

[@rubenlaurentiu90]

make video about first or second film in the series, PLZZZZZZZZZ

[@NebLleb]

Film Brain, are you doing to do a Bad Movie Beatdown on Alien Covenant? And if you're wondering how I'M spending Christmas, I'm going to watch The Last Jedi in cinemas. Screw the Disney Star Wars HateDUMB. (I'm also going to watch Batman Returns and Scrooged on Blu-ray, and the traditional fare of getting presents, but hey, Star Wars is a holiday tradition now, so why not.)

[@pp3k3jamail]

Film Brain Review Aeon Flux with Charlize Theron

[@tonyl6520]

Who cares, Australia Rules 😄

[@riddypr]

Little Fockers actually holds a special place in my heart. It was the very first movie I watched that I disliked immediately.

[@dimitriwarchief301]

Hahahahahahah HAHAHAHA i love it, i love this commet

[@patricklauer4452]

Lmao ridd that’s the most savage thing I’ve heard you say

[@alienboy1322]

Between this and dirty grandpa, Robert de Niro needs a serious career revival.

[@dvass7253]

Or maybe he should've just retired. There's no shame in that. I mean, as much as I miss Sean Connery, as soon as he saw where his career was headed in the early 2000s, he did the smart thing by retiring. I just wish he had ended his career on a higher note by accepting the role of the Architect in the Matrix sequels. As for De Niro, he still does good work like in Silver Linings Playbook and Limitless, but he seriously needs to stop phoning it in in cheap comedies like this and Dirty Grandpa.

[@culwin]

This and Dirty Grandpa and Analyze This and Rocky/Bullwinkle and... I could go on and on.

[@Wysiwyg43]

Alienboy ::: I don't blame DeNero because his black girlfriend/wife (?) is going through his money doing dumb ass projects that go nowhere. Pathetic.

[@salaciouspancakes]

@@culwin Personally, I like Analyze This, Analyze *That* on the other hand...

[@guillermodebaskerville7117]

Joker could be the start of it maybe?

[@CineMATicVHS]

The twins are played by kids of different ages and it shows!

[@whatsit2ya234]

The only twins in this movie I care about r the ones in jessica Alba's bra!!

[@IAmTheUnison]

It's just like an Adam Sandler movie, a bunch of grown men and women acting like children! XD

[@20ksubscriberswithoutvideo96]

IAmTheUnison this is worst.

[@03bgood]

This also came out, just less than 6 months after Grown Ups.

[@heymistercarter.]

So, let me get this straight: they get Laura freaking Dern to be in this movie... just to have her pull a kid’s finger for a fart joke? REALLY?!?! What a waste of an Oscar-nominated (Update: Oscar-WINNING) actress.

[@dimitriwarchief301]

So much potential,wasted

[@scottylewis8124]

The girl from Jurassic Park?

[@scottylewis8124]

@TheDreReichDude damn development hell! I don't even consider LF canon!

[@whatsit2ya234]

As a former Oscar winner once stated "sometimes award winning actors get tired of tap dancing for trophies and just want to have fun" i take that as a possible explanation.

[@heymistercarter.]

@@whatsit2ya234 thing is, Dern doesn’t seem to go after a lot of Oscar-bait roles that often. There’s a reason she’s known more for either her blockbuster roles (in franchises like Jurassic Park and Star Wars especially) or for the David Lynch movies she’s done. She’s only been nominated three times and won once. By the time she did this, it’d been decades since her last nomination (for 1991’s Rambling Rose), and she wouldn’t be nominated again until three or four years after doing this. And when she is nominated for Oscars, it’s usually on the strength of the performances themselves rather than how hard she campaigns for it. Heck, Lynch seemed to campaign much harder than she did for her in Inland Empire. And he fought HARD for her in that one (which didn’t work in the end).

[@kimifw58]

Shark Tale was kinder to Robert de Niro's image.

[@gracekim25]

Kimi FW at least I know what he looks like

[@scottylewis8124]

@jbiehlable stop acting like idiots. That's my message.

[@scottylewis8124]

@jbiehlable were you about to call me Raven?

[@scottylewis8124]

@jbiehlable aww... Hehe.

[@retrogamelover2012]

@jbiehlable Not like it was really uncalled for, considering the guy's a childish, treasonous, bigoted, egomaniacal failure of a businessman, with an actual cult of personality at his beck and call willing to dismantle the foundations of democracy, when things don't go his way.

[@dariendarkhouse8538]

My guidance counselor thought I was "not normal" because I was fascinated by weapons and fighting as a child. Now MMA is a very popular sport, plenty of people have weapon collections, and I'm currently as qualified to be a guidance counselor as she was. And I never made the jump to murder. Moral of the story is: those are average hobbies and she was a hack.

[@dimitriwarchief301]

Yes

[@retrogamelover2012]

I guess it depends on the individual, really.

[@nomduclavier]

PSA: medical staff deal with embarrassing bodily phenomena all the time. People getting things stuck up their arses is common to the point it's not even funny to a lot of them.

[@ToastColone]

Dropkick Queen absolutely!

[@PhoenixRising87]

Ikr? I've seen Untold Stories of the ER.

[@rossdiamondthief6627]

Do you remember The Godfather 2, Taxi Driver, Heat, Cape Fear??... Because I think Robert De Niro doesn’t😔

[@Itsatz0]

Hollywood is more entertaining for the actors than it is for the audience.

[@kimifw58]

The money is certainly entertaining.

[@jeremyusreevu237]

I saw your review of Good Luck Chuck, and... wow. Just seeing clips from that movie gave me a stomachache, that's how bad it was. No wonder Jessica Alba slammed it.

[@dvass7253]

This movie would've turned out so much better if Ben Stiller had directed it. I'm pretty sure he would've taken as much advantage of the title's premise as possible.

[@ExplorerDS6789]

Here is how I think they could make a fourth film and redeem the series: it's 13 years later, and Jack passes away, officially making Greg the patriarch to lead the Byrnes family and he's completely unprepared. Difference is this wouldn't be a silly comedy like the first, but would be taken more seriously. Greg doesn't feel worthy of the title, so everyone has to encourage him. A character study of Greg Focker, and a chance for Ben Stiller to really show his acting chops.

[@gageperuti5519]

I thought the movie was ok. Not as good as the first two by a long shot, but funny enough to keep me entertained. I can see why others would hate it, though. BTW: That remix at the end is still hilarious.

[@NimanWielder01]

I got to see this in theaters because my family had forgotten that we didn't like Meet the Parents. The only thing I liked about it was Bernie believing Roz and kicking Kevin's butt, and that really isn't much.

[@theNewBee]

I refused to watch the Parents/Fokker series, and now I know my decision was justified.

[@shadowspider9]

The first one was ok. It's been a while since I watched it but i remember it wasn't bad and didn't go too over the top.

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

theNewBee Reviews the first was one us really good. Stop after that one

[@intheclear3492]

The first two movies were good though

[@MaximumMadnessStixon]

Honestly, it's absolutely worth watching the first two. _Meet the Parents_ is actually a really good comedy that was well-liked on release, got great reviews and still holds up. And the first sequel, _Meet the Fockers,_ isn't half bad. It's patchier and cartoonier, but has plenty of genuine laughs. The only one that isn't good is this one, _Little Fockers._ And even then, it's just a disappointing film. It's not like this one ruins the first two or anything.

[@ExplorerDS6789]

Awesome! Thanks, Film Brain. Can you upload Deck the Halls next?

[@mesousagaby740]

3:27 I love how Kevin Hart popped up early in your reviews, first for this, then for Epic Movie...and either completely wasting him or putting freaking whiteface on him. How is it that only Scary Movie 3 used him correctly in the 2000's? Also, look at those credits; Jordan Peele, Nick Kroll and John DiMaggio had tiny roles. Weird.

[@shellbacksclub]

Why wouldn't menopause, just be called menopause for men?😞

[@rossdiamondthief6627]

I’m sorry I died laughing when he started screaming “GODFOCKER!!!” Mostly because it sounded like “GODFUCKER”😂😂

[@mickesmanymovies]

I never really liked the first one, skipped the second one, but 'Little Fockers' was in a bundle of 10 dvd's that I bought without knowing what movies were included. I was determined to watch every one of the ten films, this was the third one I put on - and it convinced me to just go with my gut and skip the other seven. I didn't laugh once, I cringed several times, and got thoroughly annoyed on at least eight different occasions. The one good thing about this whole story is that the whole dvd-bundle cost only $3, and it did contain Mike Judge's excellent 'Idiocracy', so it was still worth it...

[@MaximumMadnessStixon]

The thing that's really disappointing about this film is that there actually is a lot of clever things you could do with some of the concepts they have... with a few rewrites, they could have salvaged the story. But they just fell into the trap so many sequels did in the 2000's/early-2010's... they overcomplicated everything with too many plotlines, and tried to make everything "bigger" and "zanier," which just made it confusing, cartoony and unfunny. I genuinely still love the original _Meet the Parents._ I still watch it every few years. And I even liked _Meet the Fockers._ It was uneven and patchy, but there were still a lot of genuine chuckles and laughs. But this one? I didn't even see it in theaters like I saw the first two, and only watched it out of curiosity since it came with the _Meet the Parents_ Blu-Ray Trilogy I bought about five years ago. And I was completely apathetic the entire time. I wasn't angry or anything... it's not profoundly atrocious and it doesn't ruin the first two. But I can't imagine I'll watch it ever again.

[@scottylewis8124]

Was de Niro not aware that a guy named Smithee takes a lot of blame?

[@bromodragone8405]

I will admit, Ben Stiller's trademark deadpan look when he says "Me?" at 6:15 is actually pretty funny.

[@bromodragone8405]

C'mon, Ben, Owen, Dustin, Jessica, Robert, Kevin. You can do better.

[@CommanderZx2]

No idea why Robert De Niro keeps doing these really awful comedies.

[@amovieguy14]

He definitely said it at the Golden Globes for his honor award it was all for the money!

[@8523wsxc]

There now is a generation of people who don't know that he's a fantastic actor. Instead they associate him with Dirty Grandpa or they don't know him at all. What exactly is the point of all that money if you have to humiliate yourself to get even more money?

[@shadowspider9]

Robert De Niro: They drove a dump truck full of money up to my house! I'm not made of stone.

[@rossdiamondthief6627]

CommanderZx2 if you saw the money they pay him to be in these films you’d say yes to films like Dirty Grandpa 😂

[@KarstensCreationsKC]

"No idea why Robert De Niro keeps doing these really awful comedies." Really? Lemme spell it out for you... $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[@mrmusickhimself]

Pam was always the villain in this trilogy, Greg should have bailed the moment she threw his smokes on the roof.

[@eastern3318]

what about the line when Jewish Greg RN says to Jack after his heart attack "Jesus, you defibbed yourself?" LoL. Classic.

[@jamesb.8940]

This review was cringe-inducing. Solely because of the excerpts from the film. This film is sickening. Please, spare us Fockers IV !

[@scottylewis8124]

@TheDreReichDude thank God!

[@jeremyusreevu237]

Office Space did the "I have the same name as a famous person" joke much better than this movie.

[@galleryofrogues]

Had to pause this cuz I thought my window AC was fucking up. Turns out the sound is from your video. 😂

[@HBarnill]

12:17 This is EXACTLY why I hate modern Hollywood. They don’t give the best actor of all time any more opportunities, so he has to resort to taking degrading roles like this.

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

F. N. Lorter I don't know about that. They seem to do it for everyone.

[@mitchellhorton9382]

Resort to? He's a producer.

[@nifralo2752]

F. N. Lorter it's cause he's old

[@HBarnill]

Toad Lash And what’s gonna happen to Joaquin Phoenix and Christian Bale when they get old?

[@ExplorerDS6789]

Robert De Niro only has HIMSELF to blame for this film. Don't forget, he was one of the producers.

[@retrogamelover2012]

Oh god, I remember when I was dragged to a cinema and forced to watch it with someone.

[@simonrandall5471]

Also De Niro shot Keitel In Tax Driver.

[@akiameko1984]

Seriously one of the best BMBs, because this is one of the few times when the complaints were few enough to able to be hit on in detail... Just extremely repetitive.

[@tiger98gamer62]

18:47 Thanks a lot Film Brain, I finally understand about Jessica Alba who was nothing but a stripper. What. She was in Good Luck Chuck and Fantastic 4.

[@intheclear3492]

Why didn’t Kevin end up with Andi?

[@TheBattlesword]

Maybe now the internet can agree that The Last Jedi is no longer the worst movie Laura Dern has starred in

[@spaceodds1985]

Never saw this film, but De Niro and Keitel (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver not to mention the legendary films the films they did in their respective careers) in this atrocity... De Niro... what happened to this guys career?!

[@scottylewis8124]

It's called career slump.

[@justinhunt4767]

Jessica Alba still looks good

[@mitchellhorton9382]

What's the movie with Walken that has the same scene?

[@adrenacrumb]

I like how Fockers sounds like fuckers, but that's just me, I'm dumb.

[@hibuddywazsup5008]

adrenacrumb that's the point, stupid ass

[@baffledbrandon6971]

Why does Ben Stiller's name appear TWICE in the opening credits?

[@JeffyPokemon]

Baffled Brandon idk

[@scottylewis8124]

Basic credit roll fuck up.

[@dimitriwarchief301]

@Scotty Lewis How do you fuck that up?, thats an amazing amount of lazyness

[@scottylewis8124]

@@dimitriwarchief301 they didn't care.

[@scottylewis8124]

@@dimitriwarchief301 wait, Ben was a producer too. That's why it appeared twice.

[@monkeydui7241]

What they should’ve done is wait at least 10 years after the previous movie to make this. When they wait at least 10 years to make a sequel to finish a trilogy or 4 movies it’ll usually be a big improvement over the previous one.

[@ninjanibba4259]

Unfortunately every sequel can’t be Best Man Holiday after Best Man

[@JamesMC04]

Very few bad films are really painful to watch - though many have a colossally high cringe factor. This was exceedingly painful to watch. It was genuinely hateful. de Niro’s acting has gone over the same cliff as the US deficit :(

[@jeremyusreevu237]

Honestly, in terms of bad movies, this one wasn't terrible. It is bad, but it's just a boring, ordinary kind of bad, not the "painful to watch" bad you'd see in something like Good Luck Chuck, Fat Slags, and FoodFight.

[@jeremyusreevu237]

I've honestly heard worse puns than Godfocker.

[@scottylewis8124]

Fock this movie!

[@DerekBoldiene360]

Here is the way I rank them 1 Meet The Parents 9/10 2 Meet The Fockers 10/10 3 Little Fockers either 4/10 or a 3/10

[@scottylewis8124]

Wait. 24:14 Bender and Jordan Peele were in this?!

[@FilmBrain]

I knew DiMaggio was there, but didn't know Peele was in this! You can find them both at 22:30 in the review.

[@scottylewis8124]

@@FilmBrain the guy who would later go on to direct Get Out and Us.

And Nick Kroll.

[@shellbacksclub]

Is there really ever a bad time for having Jessica Alba wanting to "jump ur bones"?😞

[@dimitriwarchief301]

When your not hard..... thats one

[@scottylewis8124]

@TheDreReichDude i prefer her as invisible woman in fantastic 4 2005.

[@tylerskiss]

What exactly is the “concept”? The credits claim “original series concept by” but it is just another movie channel.

[@FilmBrain]

It started out conceptually as a three man show, hence the credit.

[@jeremyusreevu237]

At least this movie gave us a funny SNL skit.

[@bromodragone8405]

I came here after seeing the 2012 review. I need a good shit film.

[@ExplorerDS6789]

23:51- Y'know, I wouldn't be surprised if they TRIED to do a Meet the Parents series. They made a series out of Anger Management (it sucked ass, both movie and show), so it's probably only a matter of time before they try to resurrect this series. I can just see it now: Charlie Sheen as Greg, Jerry Stiller as Jack (or Bernie), Christina Applegate as Pam, and so on.

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

ExplorerDS6789 the movie did not suck ass. It was one of the last good Sandler comedies

[@ExplorerDS6789]

Your opinion.

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

ExplorerDS6789 makes actual sense

[@scottylewis8124]

@@theitfactorjameswheezer2852 for me, click was his last good movie.

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

Scotty Lewis not even close to true but ok

[@jeremyusreevu237]

The Rocky and Bullwinkle movie is awesome!

[@PhoenixRising87]

Try not watching movies high, son...

[@scottylewis8124]

He's not on drugs

[@engelperez3229]

Very dull comparing to the 1st and 2nd one

[@karimali2034]

Safe and sound

[@dimitriwarchief301]

This is my favorite review ~

[@nifralo2752]

I think youre over sell Robert's talents the man was in like 3 good moves 50 years ago. He's not been in anything good were he isn't playing a parody of himself (like stardust) since Russia stopped being called the Soveit Union. Sane with John Cleese he's also been a hasbeen since Roger Moore was 007

[@MegaDazza87]

16:05 hahaha

[@03bgood]

This movie was so bad, it makes Look Who's Talking Now, look like a fucking masterpiece!

[@dimitriwarchief301]

Thats bad 0-0 damn

[@scottylewis8124]

@@dimitriwarchief301 man Robert de niro has been on a downward spiral.

[@matthewbolitho-jones]

I like Little Fockers

[@sharonpereira4501]

Cool.

[@whatsit2ya234]

I thought it was the best of the 3 movies. Of course much like with the porkys movies I found the 3rd the best. I mean it moves much better than the 1st. The jokes r much goofier the story is more about a cheap 😂 than teaching some lesson. Plus jessica alba is pretty much there 2 be the 🔥 girl that is just there 4 eye 🍬. No complaints here.

[@DrGregoryHouseIT]

13:12 No, I don't. Because they never were.

[@DreFromMaine8472]

This is one of the absolute worst movies I've ever seen. I saw it in the theatre and I was constantly cringing at it's badness. I'm not the biggest fan of Meet The Parents or Meet The Fockers, but those two are at least watchable and at least have some funny moments in them. This one was just SHIT!

[@LinkMarioSamus]

This is a worse Laura Dern film than The Last Jedi, right guys?

[@scottylewis8124]

Seriously? Stop hating on TLJ. Get a life.

[@LinkMarioSamus]

@@scottylewis8124 I was being sarcastic.

[@scottylewis8124]

@@LinkMarioSamus oh

[@jakublulek3261]

Really? French Connection joke, movie?

[@scottylewis8124]

Should have quit acting in 2000 Alba. Hate to tell you this but, is all downhill after Idle Hands. The 2000s and early 2010s ain't gonna be kind.

[@birulune]

J'ai pas compris ce que tu as écrit mais je voulais juste dire que c'est cool de revoir Keitel, surtout si il s'engueule avec De Niro, dans le film, les vieux films sont des vieux films, arrêtez de les prendre pour autre chose. Main Street, Taxi Driver, leur hyperviolence a inspiré Tarentino, c'est bien, mais je préfère Reservoir Dogs, les français adorent, ils adorent adorent adorent

[@scottylewis8124]

@@birulune what?

[@zenksren8206]

@@birulune Alors pourquoi répondez-vous?

[@markgrehan3726]

These films were never, never funny.

[@theitfactorjameswheezer2852]

Not true

[@pushon10]

These films are the unfunniest things ever

[@ebwarg]

This film is so bad, even your review is hard to sit through.

[@KarstensCreationsKC]

I focking HATE these piss poor excuses for comedy films. "Jack believes Kevin is having an affair , and his wife, who talks about her relationship with her kids is worried that..." What is this crap? "As The Stomach Turns"?! GREAT review, tho...;)