With a comedy legacy as lucrative as Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, Little Fockers (2010) was always going to be on the cards. With Ben Stiller and Robert De Nero back in the roles of Gaylord “Greg” Focker and his ex FBI agent father in law Jack Byrnes, the trailer sadly looks a bit lame.
As you can guess from the name, Little Fockers is all about the little feet that have arrived in the Byrnes-Focker household, namely 5-year-old twins. With Greg suffering from mid-life crisis and Owen Wilson’s Kevin Rawley returning with a new found passion for Pam, it sounds like it’s all going to kick off.
While Barbara Streisand is back playing Stiller’s sex therapist mother, Dustin Hoffman isn’t returning as his dad. However, Jessica Alba and Harvey Keitel will join in the cast for added star slap stick potential.
With a UK release date of December 22nd, Little Fockers is primed to be a Christmas blockbuster, but it’ll have to be pretty special to get back to the original comic tension of Stiller & De Niro’s first outing, Meet the Parents. If the trailer’s anything to go by, it doesn’t look like it’s on the cards.
