{"id":244104,"date":"2011-01-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/film-review-latest-threequel-is-not-worth-a-fock\/"},"modified":"2011-01-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T08:00:00","slug":"film-review-latest-threequel-is-not-worth-a-fock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/film-review-latest-threequel-is-not-worth-a-fock\/","title":{"rendered":"Rese\u00f1a de la pel\u00edcula: La \u00faltima trilog\u00eda no vale ni un 'fock'"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Scott Marks| SDUN Columnist<\/strong><\/div>\n

“Little Fockers”
\nDirected by<\/strong> Paul Weitz
\nEscrito por<\/strong> John Hamburg and Larry Stuckey
\nProtagonizada por:<\/strong> Robert DeNiro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, Jessica Alba and Owen Wilson<\/p>\n

Calificaci\u00f3n: 1 estrella<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller waste film in "Little Fockers". (Courtesy Universal and Paramount Pictures)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ten minutes in and already we have a catalog of bodily function jokes, cracks about erectile dysfunction (a running gag) and the sight of Jessica Alba helping to dilate an enormous black man\u2019s anus before slipping in an enema nozzle. Happy holidays from your friends at Universal and Paramount Pictures! (Yes, it took two studios to spit this out.)<\/p>\n

Ten years, one sequel and a worldwide box office take of $800 million later finds tyrannical patriarch Jack Byrnes (Robert DeNiro) once again squaring off with his milquetoast son-in-law Greg Focker (Ben Stiller). The two families plan to meet in Chicago to celebrate the fifth birthday of Greg\u2019s children or as grandma Roz calls them, \u201cthe two twins.\u201d (As opposed to three twins?) The fetching and talentless Jessica Alba joins the franchise as a drug rep eager to have the cash strapped Jack speak at a convention advertising a new erectile dysfunction pill that\u2018s safe for heart patients.<\/p>\n

Do you think Jack is going to have a heart attack, swallow a couple of Greg\u2019s samples and walk around pitching a tent? The comedic highpoint arrives when Greg has to take the situation in hand and inject adrenaline in Jack\u2019s raging penis. And how\u2019s this for a comedic topper: Just as Greg is about to prick his father-in-law, one of the title characters walks in on them to punctuate the festivities with an adorable Macaulay Culkin-esque scream. Even more daunting were the people around me who actually laughed at this crap.<\/p>\n

If I spied Robert DeNiro (he also produced) in the lobby of the Grossmont after exiting his latest toxic landfill, instead of pleading for an autograph he\u2019d be greeted with two words: \u201cFock You!\u201d How do you go from being the \u201cGreatest Actor of Your Generation\u201d to making funny faces and exchanging \u201cboner\u201d witticisms with Ben Stiller? The answer is easy: threequel money.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what brought them all back\u2014Barbra Streisand, Owen Wilson, Blythe Danner, Dustin Hoffman\u2014and only the latter had the guts to sound off against the weak script. Hoffman balked at reprising his role as Bernie Focker, but was later persuaded by the Universal brass to appear in six scenes. Ironically, Hoffman was also bent out of shape over a change in directors; Jay Roach, auteur of the first two installments, was being replaced by Paul Weitz, the brain behind \u201cDown to Earth\u201d and \u201cCirque du Freak: The Vampire\u2019s Assistant.\u201d That\u2019s like filling a Slurpee with antifreeze instead of bleach.<\/p>\n

If the \u201cFockers\u201d series came equipped with a pair of incisors they would nip away at the most obvious paradox of all. Forget about his future son-in-law being a male nurse and having the first name \u201cGay,\u201d there is no way in hell that a narrow-minded, arch Republican like Jack Byrnes would allow his precious daughter to marry a Jewish man. This time the \u201cfilmmakers\u201d at least address the issue by slapping a yarmulke on Jack\u2019ss skull and proclaiming him 1\/23rd Jewish.<\/p>\n

Considering that it was No.1 at the box office, and there is ample room left open at the end for another installment, it\u2019s safe to say that gullible audiences will continue to get \u201cfocked\u201d for many years to come.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Scott Marks| SDUN Columnist “Little Fockers” Directed by Paul Weitz Written by John Hamburg and Larry Stuckey Starring: Robert DeNiro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, Jessica Alba and Owen Wilson Rating: 1 star Ten minutes in and already we have a catalog of bodily function jokes, cracks about erectile dysfunction (a running gag) and the […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1292,"featured_media":244105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Film Review: Latest threequel is not worth a 'fock'","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}