Little Fockers

The weakest of the whole series, although the third one had the most famous actors. The worst thing about Fotři jsou lotři is the fact that it basically doesn't have a solid plot line, the first half hour of the film is groping in the darkness and then it's just a sequence of more or less successful or unsuccessful jokes, sometimes even repeating. The first one set a high bar, the second one kept it, but the third one is much, much worse. Not even the presence of J. Alba, who once again brilliantly played the role of a stupid bimbo, can help with that. The bad impression is underlined by the absolutely idiotic character of Owen Wilson. Very shaky three stars - R. de Niro and D. Hoffman save the honor of the film. (25.12.2010)

You'll have fun, not that you won't, but I think it’s rather sad to be entertained in this style while watching actors of De Niro's calibre or Stiller's undeniable comedic talent. All the stuff that worked in the first film, because it looked cute and innocent, and culminated in the second thanks to the lively characters of Hoffman and Streisand, sounds annoying and somehow superfluous here. Some scenes, if you have the appropriate amount of tolerance, still have the right crazy charge, and the sad presence of those great actors is positive, but otherwise this is perhaps a vulgar insult to the more intelligent part of the audience, who still put their trust in their darlings, and a prime example of a stupid star trademark created just to sell as much as possible... 50% (17.08.2011)

The third Fockers pleased me a bit more than the second, at times terribly overstuffed and at times desperately empty... This time I found the film more balanced and somehow calmer. It's a pity that it didn't avoid the "humorous" bodily fluids and that the script followed the old familiar Yebal vs. Byrnes model, which simply can't surprise anyone anymore. There were jokes in the film, however, and a surprising number of them. My fondest memories will be of the Godfather references and the impeccable Jaws parody that Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller played in a pool full of plastic balls at the end. That made me laugh to tears. So three and a bit. (21.09.2012)

Even though it is the third film from this family, Little Fockers still has the potential to entertain. The family has grown, the characters have aged, but the feud between father-in-law and son-in-law remains. While the film doesn't bring anything new to the table, it still offers some funny and imaginative moments, like the references to The Godfather and Jaws. You pretty much know how it's all going to turn out from the beginning, but it never gets boring and goes by pretty fast, so the predictability doesn't matter. (15.01.2023)