“Little Fockers” marks the third movie in the “Meet the Parents” franchise. While the cast has continued to grow with every new entry, the core of the movie has always been the same. Ben Stiller or otherwise known as Greg Focker in the film, tries to win the approval of the intimidating Jack Byrnes, as played by Robert DeNiro. That remains the case with this new film.
The enrollment of the children made the movie increasingly humorous and exciting to watch. The result feels like a strained attempt to cash in on the franchise one last time before it slips fully from the mind of audiences. In “Little Fockers” the male nurse Greg Focker has moved up to essentially running the nursing department at the hospital where he works at in Chicago. He and his wife, Pam (Teri Polo) are raising their twin children, Henry and Samantha, in an apartment while their dream home is undergoing renovation.
Greg long ago was able to get on good terms with his once confrontational father- in-law Jack Byrnes, but he now finds himself under surveillance once again. Jack suffered a mild heart attack, which he doesn’t want his family to know about, and has seen his other daughter abandoned by her husband. The combination of these two events means that Jack is once more very suspicious in general and realizing that with “Doctor Bob” no longer his son-in-law that his weight of his family tree will now fall on Greg. Jack needs to know that Greg can lead the family, become as he calls it “the God-Focker,” but at the same time he doubts Greg’s abilities to be able to do that.
When Jack and his wife Dina (Blythe Danner) go to visit the Fockers to celebrate the twins’ birthday, he puts Greg under the microscope one more time to see if he is truly worthy of being in the Byrnes family. In my opinion this movie was the best one out of the series providing more hysterical events along with an easy storyline to understand if you have seen the other two first. I strongly suggest seeing the other two movies in the series before you watch this one.
