i have to admit that apart from one thing that i really liked about little fockers i
was kind of disappointed by this film so a brief overview of my recent experience with this series
um i re-watched meet the parents and i kind of liked it more than i did the first time
but i was really only watching it because i'd never seen um beat the fockers i wanted
to watch it so i immediately watched that afterwards and kind of liked it
enough that i was at least curious to watch little [ __ ] i thought there would be
you know a lot of comedy surrounding children and that would have maybe a kind of different dynamic
and i have to say it's it's really kind of disappointing there are some moments in this
that are quite nice but ultimately that's not the case so yes there are children in this um
basically they now have twins um who don't look like twins one of them's
much shorter than the other there is a joke in this about there in there about that um
but basically palm and greg have these two children absolutely fantastic they have
an upcoming birthday party the children are in this for about 10 minutes i don't know if that's
factually correct but they're not in it for a long period of time and i feel like they missed a trick
with bringing a lot of humor in through them a lot of it is still revolving around the relationships
between the burns family and the walker family which is something that i find quite interesting
because well the cast is brilliant um and i do think that de niro was amazing in this
but ultimately not a lot happens some of it is about how do i say it something happens to jack
jack burns played by robert de niro i won't say what but he then realizes that the next in line
to take over his duty as the patriarch of the family is greg walker as much as he doesn't
want to admit it and he's talking to greg about how he has to become the god [ __ ] um
and the kind of duties he will have to perform once jack is no longer around
and i kind of like that aspect of jack realizing he has to one day pass the baton
to his son-in-law and there is kind of a greater acceptance here for greg as a son-in-law than
there was in the previous film and i think out of all the characters jack has had the greatest
character development he hasn't completely lost who he is as an individual but still you can
see there has been some progress made and that's something that i really enjoyed and i was really
pleased with and i was glad they did that because if they'd still kept the same level of animosity
i think it would have dragged on a bit um there is a little bit of humor surrounding the twins
when they are trying to get into this um really elite school uh i believe it's called the early
human school um very expensive very private school and they have kind of interviews there
very different interview styles for both children and that was kind of entertaining but beyond that
they don't really contribute much they're not really very well written into the narrative
now given it's called little [ __ ] i was kind of really surprised by that and not in a good way
not much else happens for me it's definitely more about the relationship between jack and
greg which in some ways is fine because i do like both of those characters and i like
the way they both developed jack more so but i just think they missed a trick with bringing in
quite a bit more humor involving the children the way that maybe jack interacted with the
children or maybe problems that the children caused but none of that
was present and i don't really understand what the point of them was this narrative
well maybe the narrative couldn't have existed exactly as it is if the children weren't there
because then jack wouldn't really have the same kind of epiphany with needing to pass on the baton
to um the father of his grandchildren but certainly they don't play that much of an
important role which is a bit of a shame but ultimately i like the message in this i like
the development of the characters i just think the narrative was a complete disappointment they
completely missed an opportunity to bring in a different kind of humor because let's face
it the previous two films didn't do amazingly well i thought they were okay but generally the
reception was not you know perfect i'm surprised they made it to a third film i'd be surprised if
they made it to a fourth film it's an alright film i didn't hate watching it but certainly i think
they could have done a lot more with it i don't think they could have done without it because i do
think that jack burns as a character reached a really pivotal point here
um and i really thoroughly enjoyed danielle's performance obviously the casting is what
drives us forward ben stiller owen wilson dustin hoffman barbara streisand terry polo kevin hart um
the the twins are also um you know very well acted i have to point out that there is absolutely
nothing wrong with their performances um i thought they were very sweet and again
partly explains why i felt like they were just underused they could have brought a
lot more to this and made it a lot more interesting it's a bit of a disappointment
it's not terrible but little [ __ ] is definitely not what it could have been