BEFORE: Ben Stiller week rolls on...
THE PLOT: Family-patriarch Jack Byrnes wants to appoint a successor. Does his son-in-law, the male nurse Greg Focker have what it takes?
AFTER: I suppose this was entertaining enough, mostly the same jokes that were in the last installment, "Meet the Fockers", only with kids. But they didn't really do too much with the kids - one seems to be smarter than the other, even though they're fraternal twins. (So, why make them twins?) There's a sub-plot where the kids interview for a super-exclusive pre-school (even though the girl looks like she's already 12) but I don't think the movie ever said whether they get into the school or not. So what was the point of that? Do we have to wait for "Little Fockers 2" to find out whether they made the cut?
Most of the humor here is based around infidelity, older people having sex, or male sexual dysfunction, or sometimes all three at once. And it's all rooted in miscommunication or misinterpretation that people hoped would lead to hilarity. But it's all material that's been seen before - except maybe the hot pharmaceutical rep as a new character.
NITPICK POINT: Said pharmaceutical rep is, one would assume, an expert on the effects of the drug that she's promoting. So why would she herself take a drug specifically aimed at the male impotency market? Unless there's a recreational side-effect we're not aware of, this doesn't make a lick of sense.
Still, as I've proven already this week, there are worse ways to kill time by watching a Ben Stiller movie.
Also starring Robert DeNiro (last seen in "Ronin"), Blythe Danner (last seen in "Forces of Nature"), Teri Polo (last seen in "Meet the Fockers"), Dustin Hoffman (last seen in "Barney's Version"), Barbra Streisand (last seen in "Nuts"), Owen Wilson (last seen in "Permanent Midnight"), Jessica Alba (last seen in "Valentine's Day"), with cameos from Laura Dern (last seen in "Everything Must Go"), Nick Kroll, Rob Huebel, and Harvey Keitel (terribly miscast here, unless his dippy contractor character was supposed to be an ex-mobster in the witness protection program).
RATING: 4 out of 10 bounce castles
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