The 2010 Christmas comedy “Little Fockers” became a de facto punching bag for movie critics.
The film, the third chapter in the “Meet the Parents” saga, drew brutal reviews from both print and online movie scribes. The film hits Blu-ray and DVD shelves today.
WWTW just screened the Blu-ray “Fockers” – I missed it during its theatrical run – and have to agree with my peers. It’s clear the “Fockers” franchise has run its course.
But we’ll still likely see a fourth “Fockers” film. Maybe two more.
“Little Fockers” earned $148 million despite those awful reviews during the uber-competitive Oscar movie season. That’s a nice chunk of change, mitigated only by the dollars that went to the famous cast. Dustin Hoffman reportedly earned millions for what turned out to be a glorified cameo, so just imagine how much stars Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro pocketed at the end of the day.
The second film in the trilogy, the barely tolerable “Meet the Fockers,” hit a much bigger jackpot with $279 million. Clearly the franchise is in decline. But how many films can boast a near-guaranteed $100-plus million, in addition to whatever the home video market reaps?
De Niro, who co-produced the latest “Fockers,” is already eager to shoot more “Fockers” features. And it’s safe to say that if audiences didn’t respond to the critical shellacking this time around they’ll likely ignore more brickbats aimed at a fourth “Fockers.”
Today’s audiences have access to an endless array of film reviews, plus social media outlets where their friends can warn them if a film isn’t worth the ticket prices. And still they came, week after week, to see the Fockers. Stiller, De Niro and the rest of the gang have no reason not to dump more “Fockers” hijinks on us.
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Why do we deserve more ‘Fockers’?
Uh, Original Sin? Karma? We’ve been neglecting our ancestor-worship?
‘Cause this is some serious “bad medicine” stuff, second only to Dragon Age games and “The Fast and the Furious” sequels on the Thing That Should Not Be meter.
Geez, Toto, you must really hate us all for saying we deserve more ‘Fockers’.
What will the sequels be called?
“Dirty, Little Fockers”? (the kids get into a muddy mess at day camp hahaha)
“Revenge of the Fockers”? (DeNiro loses the kids at Disneyland and spends the whole movie trying to find them as the kids intentionally hide hahaha)
“Fockers on Parade”?(The kids ruin a Memorial Day parade hahaha)
“Dead Fockers” (Billy Zane from Dead Calm review above reprises his role and kills them all by denying them any poop, fart, animal torture, and ‘Focker’ism jokes).
Shhh, good God, man, what if one of them sees that? Don’t give them any ideas!
LOL, Mike. I think they’ll hire you to write the next story after this.