The Reel Rejects - LITTLE FOCKERS (2010) MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:00:16 Let's fuck it up. Guys, we have just finished watching Little Fockers. If you listen to this, on Napos, Spotify. Make sure you go and give us five little fuckers. Five fucking stars. Five fucking stars. Also, thank you to people

Starting point is 00:00:39 for cut down these fucking highlights. So you can see them here on the YouTube. Oh, that's where we're at. Two turntables and a microphone. Hey. Microphone. Boom. All right. I think we

Starting point is 00:00:55 might have some patron questions. We probably will. Before we do, Johneld I don't you feel about this movie You know If I told you I didn't have a good time And then I didn't laugh I would be lying

Starting point is 00:01:10 I don't think this is the strongest Of the three movies But I would be Yeah, a liar if I said That the ensemble Doesn't still have some level of charm As a little Fockers movie It didn't really hinge that heavily

Starting point is 00:01:26 On the children not really uh and you know we get a brief bit of tension with like will they get into the freaking school i don't know i guess they must have yeah it kind of didn't really come back to that after a certain point drop the hell out of that yeah so there's a lot in here that's very much just sort of like we need bits but uh you know that's that's what these movies are like anyhow so i don't begrudge them that and uh yeah i thought everybody showed up and did the thing there's a bit of inconsistency if you really want to get into the weeds in terms of like the writing of certain characters and how they would behave and you know what we know about jack they kind of homer

Starting point is 00:02:12 simpsonized jack a little bit and i love the simpsons i love homer but you know at a certain point homer becomes sort of like a buffoon more than he needs to be and jack has a certain degree of that here which i don't begrudge them but at the same time being that they have kind of built the off of each other in a linear fashion, I suppose you should have some. I shouldn't be asking as frequently like, would Jack think this or would he be so clumsy in this regard or that regard? Yeah, just an example,

Starting point is 00:02:43 him following him on the train and getting caught and just follow. That whole thing seemed like, yeah. That seemed off character. Jack, you're better than this. I know you're better than this. Or at least you're smoother if you were to get caught or something like that. Yeah, you had a whole. one you got his DNA and had his whole your whole resources there in the last one but also you had like a whole little secret compartment in your RV so I was like I don't know it didn't seem like it tracked in that regard but yeah man I think I'm of the similar sentiment to you um there were there moments where this movie did make me laugh but I don't think it had nearly as much of the the the cringe mayhem as the first two did I don't think the comedy hit as hard this one I mean Greg was still the central focus

Starting point is 00:03:28 but had more of an ensemble sort of feel more so than the immediacy of the family. You know, they definitely punched up Owen Wilson's role in this one. But yeah, I was... Full-on, like, lead supporting character. Yeah, yeah, yeah, where he was

Starting point is 00:03:44 definitely a supporting character in the second one had like a small sort of cameo. I mean, no. He's a supporting character in the first movie. And then he's like a cameo-ish. He appears in the second movie. And then here, yeah, he's like, around yeah one of the main people um but yeah i would say this is understandably why this is the

Starting point is 00:04:04 uh least talked about one but it wasn't awful by any regards i was never like dreading it or like checking the clock while we're watching it i was still like engaged i still like these characters you know they still at least in personality maybe not in some of their actions but in personality feel like the same people yeah as we've watched in the other ones so there's enjoyment there. Jessica Alba was a weird character overall. Yeah, man. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:04:30 That was definitely an interesting scene with her taking the drugs. I thought she was going to give it to him. Yeah, that was a very interesting call. I wonder if they, I don't know. Part of me wonders if they had it be that originally and then they chose to not do that. Yeah, I know. It's fine. Yeah, I don't know.

Starting point is 00:04:55 She was, uh, it was cool to have her be kind of against type in that she is like, yeah, kind of, you know, she's a bit of a silly character. Like she's got a very like bubbly, quirky, ditsy, kind of like, you know, feel like just like I was someone you knew in high school or something like that who, uh, yeah, is just like very excitable and very enthusiastic and stuff, which, you know, uh, but yeah, her, her vibes are, uh, were certainly kind of hard to pin down. down at points other than yeah the whole like oh my god she's incredibly hot and she's also like you know very personable or at least is very sort of like i don't know what the word is not

Starting point is 00:05:38 personal personable is the wrong word it's like she's very kind of um uh i don't know touchy feely in how she expresses the enthusiasm so like up top you're like oh okay this is going to be like a real situation where ben's d'or's going to have to like you know enforce a boundary and there's going to be misunderstandings and stuff um like it was weird it was fun to watch jessica alba have fun but yeah like the scenes with that character she was definitely like an odd character yeah i don't know how quite to put the words together for that yeah i will say something i felt was a little bit more lacking for me is that i wish that uh gregg's parents are in the movie more because i thought they were a really fun part of the second one and

Starting point is 00:06:20 they were just in the phone and on tv and then they didn't really come into the third act whereas, you know, it was more of a return to form in, you know, Greg seeking the approval directly with with Robert De Niro's character with Jack. And, you know, that dynamic is still fun.

Starting point is 00:06:40 I'm conflicted because in one hand, I'm like, yeah, this is like what started this franchise, but I'm also like, how many more times are you going to have to improve this man? We keep going to the same art of like, oh, I'm mean a dick. Okay, I should stop. and you know he finally his approval until the next time he doesn't have his approval so you know we're in a cycle but

Starting point is 00:07:00 I'm still enjoying it because I still like these characters and I'm wondering with the fourth one because it's like I think this came out like what 2011 2010 this was 2010 okay so it'll be like the tomato all right I'll guess the score did you see it no okay no yeah so

Starting point is 00:07:18 because it's got to do with our first question of the day oh okay so maybe we should just pull that right I got it up I got the score we're gonna get it in Jay Rushden asks or has this to say thank you Jay by the way like this movie was awful

Starting point is 00:07:35 when you see the Rotten Tomatoes rating question what was your take on the movie all right I think we reviewed it but I like I didn't love it but I liked it I feel like that I've definitely seen comedies that I feel are less funny or something like what's the deal you

Starting point is 00:07:52 you want to guess I don't know like 15% okay I have a feeling it's got to be something like 4% for the critics like I don't know judging by this question

Starting point is 00:08:05 I don't know 4 just go with 4% okay what about audiences 65 critics 9% okay see and audiences 34% all right

Starting point is 00:08:17 I mean sure I would give this what was my take on the movie I would give this more than 9% I guess. I wouldn't give it like a super duper high rating. Like it's it's not unpleasant if you don't, like if you enjoy the cast of people they've amassed here and can have fun with some of the silly choices that they make. Like I think there is some fun to be had. I thought the whole like shift into Godfather music and stuff like that was kind of charming from time to time when they would do that.

Starting point is 00:08:50 I thought the Jaws bit was fun. them actually fighting was fun to see this is the silliest one and this is the most sort of like yeah cartoon feeling one in a way like there was a bit more i don't know it's it's not actually quite as different as i was expecting it to be in terms of like tone and quality but it is like clearly the the least of the three it's like i don't think this was like i didn't suffer through this let's say i was never like god i want to turn this off i was never like aggravated in a way you're not supposed to be like there are there are moments i had fun with like the the erection too long bit was fun i don't think you hated every second of that i mean it was like it did its job you're

Starting point is 00:09:34 supposed to i yeah i mean yeah it was very painful i could i could i was having phantom pains watching that sequence but you know that's the goal there i think so i can't take that away from them i felt i felt the first two were a little more fun for me but overall i I liked it. I think I liked it more than some other comedies that were not as well loved. I think I liked this more than Naked Gun 3. I liked them more than the South Park movie. Wow.

Starting point is 00:10:04 Okay. All right. But yeah. I think that, you know, overall, it's okay. And, you know, there's a fourth one coming. So I hope the fourth one's better. But, yeah, dude. You have any other thoughts before?

Starting point is 00:10:17 No, I'm going to slingshot this one. to Jaden Rhodes because they make a good companion to each other. Jaden Rhodes says this is my least favorite of the three movies, but I'm sort of excited for the fourth one coming out. I would agree with this assessment.

Starting point is 00:10:33 But I'm curious how y'all would rank the three movies. I think I'd probably go in release order. One being the best, two, and then three. I would agree with you probably on quality. I imagine this may be a bit of a hot take

Starting point is 00:10:53 but like in terms of like watchability I guess I would go two one three because two was like more loose and and it was less painful to behold you know like the cringe was still there but the first movie I remember having like a very very pointed level of cringe

Starting point is 00:11:13 to where I'm like this is working on me and I'm here and I'm enjoying the time but like I very much remember how uncomfortable that movie is and how painful some of that stuff is and uh and they took the edge off of that increasingly between meet the fuckers and little fuckers so yeah for watchability's sake i think two is the most fun partly because you have like you know you also have barbara strison and and duston hoffman and there are more dynamics to have fun with there but yeah the first one is probably the best actual movie than two then then three yeah yeah i feel like from

Starting point is 00:11:48 me i think that they're both really good i really like meet the parents i meet the fuckers but it'll probably be like meet the parents meet the fuckers and then little fogers is like down here absolutely absolutely this year has been a big transformation for emois as many of you now know back in january of this year i started off at 218 pounds by september i was down to 170 now i've been a little bit more focused on building up some muscle and a big part of that it has been about fueling myself correctly, but between work, filming, and commuting, I really have time to plan or prep meals. That's why something like HelloFresh is rather essential in my current predicament, which is today's video sponsor. Now, if you've heard of HelloFresh, but haven't

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Starting point is 00:13:35 We're going to start with, are you excited for the fourth one they announced Fockers in law? Yeah. You know, because it's been enough time. between whenever this new one's coming out let's actually look it up was it 2020 i think i saw it was 26 if i remember correctly fuckers and law and law i mean yeah you got to get these people in what you can't oh 2026 okay and okay different director who's on the director it's in pre-production right now okay this is chaos oh yes okay this is what i was hoping it was going to be what is it So on Google, it says, a young man named Henry, son of Greg and Pam, meet families, face family chaos when he decides to marry a strong-willed woman who appears to be his complete mismatch.

Starting point is 00:14:30 Okay. That's not what I thought it was going to be. Okay. I wanted to be. Do we have, like, do we have like De Niro and shit back or is it just Ben Stiller's going to become Robert? De Niro's back. Okay. Oh.

Starting point is 00:14:42 The Beanie Filzeman. feldstein oh skyler zondo are in a grande damn everyone's coming back terry polo blythe danner let's go okay interesting so that must be his son and then she's going to be the the girl oh my god poor their kids who's the director of this okay uh the the the guy who's directing okay sticks me time doesn't have like a long i love you man love that fun let's go along came Polly okay he's a he's a Ben Stiller buddy he's a Ben Stiller man

Starting point is 00:15:20 yeah stillerman I was hoping it was going to be like the daughter has a guy who's coming in and then it's like kind of mirroring the first one because then he has to impress Greg and impress the grandfather yeah that would have been fun there's going to be multiple levels of impressing

Starting point is 00:15:36 they have to do you know yeah you know that there's going to be it's going to be much high jinks of course all the gents will be overstepping those boundaries just right along with dad yep but they're gonna be teaming together finally for the first time to then have to torture some poor boy yeah skyler gizondo or whoever uh yeah i mean i hearing this i can only i can off not always but off to be enticed after so many years to be like hey man let's see how they do you know some of these legacy sequels have been pretty decent

Starting point is 00:16:08 and uh you know i'm not beyond the charms of you know we're getting the gang back together the band back together and you know watching everyone do their thing so uh i don't need this to happen but i could be excited you know i've spent enough time with these characters and their journey now that i would be you know at least curious and hope that they do a good job or maybe you know deliver i feel like they're they have with these a unique opportunity to yeah do some hijinks but also maybe do something that's a little bit mature in a sense yeah the thing that gives me hope is that I know that after Zoolander 2, Ben Stiller really took a step back, and as far as like the projects he'd be involved with.

Starting point is 00:16:53 And then since then, all his things have been largely well received, especially something like Severance, which he's like the director of. So I have to imagine for him to want to be willing to sign on to a fourth one that he gathered with it, like the script. So, you know, fingers crossed. Hopefully that it's good. But yeah, I'm looking forward to one, and I would definitely watch one. And if we do watch it, you know we're watching it here, baby.

Starting point is 00:17:19 It's going to be so hard to skipping theaters. Let's move on to Roby Bobar, Pirate, Pirate, two of three. Look out there. You're really excited to talk about the Fokkers today. Let's see, what do you think of the sudden shift into Robert De Niro's Italian origins in the movie and the direction of godfatherhood it has taken I thought it was interesting

Starting point is 00:17:47 I thought it was a fun little bit there and then a fun way to try to get Greg in a position to have to suck up or earn the approval of him again because now it's not as far as being welcomed into the family

Starting point is 00:18:05 not as far as you know embracing his an extended family but now him as a patriarchal figure himself so yeah I thought it was fun I thought it was a good little bit granted still weakest of the three

Starting point is 00:18:22 but you know I didn't mind the the attempt or the premise itself was you yeah it's like I like the this movie was more loose in general I felt like so there were times where I was charmed by that because of like the sillier elements of like okay now the

Starting point is 00:18:39 music has changed and like now Greg is trying to act like more of a serious man in some regards and like stuff like that I thought was fun I like the idea that he was doing the genealogy as well I wish almost that there was more meat on that bone because there's that bit it comes back he's like oh you know I I've mapped the whole family out and the genes I've learned maybe you get a little more genes in one kid from one side than the other side but I don't know I thought that they could have made that more of a theme throughout because these families are growing and expanding and yes it's a comedy we don't need to be thoughtful that way but it often earns you extra points and makes your movie better when you do stuff like that um so you know in this case it felt more like hey it's part three and now we've finally decided to go one step further it's like the first movie rides off of like yes he's CIA he's not like a mobster but same time it just rides off of like what you know about the robert deniro persona and like his tough guy attitude. And so I, yeah, it's weird.

Starting point is 00:19:44 I'm torn on it here because I like it. I think it's fun. I think it's charming. It's a little plug and play as to like how it permeates the plot. But I mean, you know, the whole like becoming the godfalker is a consistent thread throughout. So, you know, it's weird. Yeah, in the tone, it sometimes leads to more heightened cartoon-y things, which I appeals to me, which I enjoy. So, yeah, I thought it was a bit of a mess the way they chose to.

Starting point is 00:20:08 incorporate it but I thought it was funny so I like that I could say I like that detail that element and you know I'm just sad that nobody got whacked by the end whackless part of me thought they were going to go even

Starting point is 00:20:24 further doing like weird godfather jokes but it's cool Roby Bobarp Pierratte closing out the Q&A section with a third question do you have any person in your life with as much

Starting point is 00:20:40 suspicion as Jack in the entire trilogy you have anybody who's just meddling in your personal affairs trying to shape you in their image mold your life because they don't think you can handle it

Starting point is 00:20:54 no I feel like if anyone was like that I probably wouldn't have it in my life anymore so no no one I necessarily have to put up with but I'm sorry for anybody that does have to deal with that because yeah you don't you don't ask for that that's something that's inherited um when whoever partnership or maybe even a boss or something that you have to deal with but uh yeah no i'm i'm good i designed my

Starting point is 00:21:19 life in the way where i don't have to deal with that shit hey how about you um i don't think so i don't think i have anybody i know directly i mean you know i have uh i've known some people to be tenacious in social environments uh especially you know like when uh when you're in like a big group community with like sub-communities inside of it and people are all like I don't know coming of age and things and you're younger like in younger times I have known people who are real tenacious about like digging in and finding out what the but that's not even as much about like I need to control you and mold you so much as just understanding the social sphere that we're in so yeah I don't really have a jack in my life thankfully I don't have anybody who's like yeah just

Starting point is 00:22:08 at constantly trying to like both I don't know lead me into some kind of diamond forging pressure but also who's like yeah secret agenting my life

Starting point is 00:22:24 I don't thankfully have anybody in my life as suspicious as a Jack Burns too invasive don't need the pressure don't need the energy don't need it for those people that have to deal with that I'm sorry and I hope that you find a way to deal get some therapy tell them to get some therapy too maybe you guys can find

Starting point is 00:22:43 a more peaceful relationship do you have an owen wilson in your life that's the question god i knows i want one i know dude he seems like a good guy to know he seems like a cool guy he seems great minus the tattoo of yeah i've been stiller's wife on his back uh that dance he put on, you know, the party with the big heads. Dude knows how to throw a shind. Oh, you're asking about the character. I thought you're talking about actual. Do you have anybody like Owen Wilson in

Starting point is 00:23:14 your life specifically? I wish I had an Owen Wilson and a Kevin both. Yeah, I don't want a Kevin in my life. I mean, not if he's trying to go after my girl. But if he's just like a cool guy who like, you know, into Eastern medicine, it just sounds like all these

Starting point is 00:23:29 extravagant experiences. Yeah, man. Come on down. But being in great position, I'm good. I'm chilling on you. Yeah. But yeah, guys, I think that'll be it for us today. John, have any final thoughts before you get out of you? I guess you can call me the Johnfather.

Starting point is 00:23:44 I can call you the Johnfather. You call me the... Go man. That's fair. Okay. All right, guys, that'll be it for us today. Let us know your favorite Focker movie in the comments below. We'll catch you guys in the next one.

Starting point is 00:24:01 Fockers out. Dukies. the lactate thing never came back there was no crazy poop no I was wrong the looser movie this movie was much more loose

Starting point is 00:24:11 they didn't tie as many things back around as they did just throw a bunch of shit into the movie freaking Harvey Kytel was here oh yeah just to be shady

Starting point is 00:24:20 and then never returned they never finished the house they never finished the house this movie had so many hijinks but it was like less clockwork than the other two I think is the thing

Starting point is 00:24:29 this one was much more just sort of like ah this stuff I guess and I can feel the editing more of just like, I don't know, now we're in another scene. Yeah, this one felt more obligatory in some senses.

Starting point is 00:24:39 Yeah, this was a little less finessed, a little less musically cringe. Yeah. There's like a musicality to the way the first couple are like painfully cringe. Yeah. This was a little more loose and fluid and how it threw stuff

Starting point is 00:24:55 your way. I hope the fourth one does that again. Yeah. Let's get some cringe. But I hope everybody comes back. Jessica Alba got to come back. Dr. Bob got to come back. Kevin Hart's got to come back. Kevin Hart's got to come back. Jordan Peel, John DiMaggio. Yep.

Starting point is 00:25:09 You know, friggin' everybody. Let's see. This fucker's series. Let's turn into it to win Jack's approval every season. Yes. Oh, there's always a new arc of why he has to win Jack's approval. It's good. I like it.

Starting point is 00:25:23 Oh, God. I like it. I like it. All right. Now the video is done. We're leaving. Bye. Bye.

Starting point is 00:25:33 Thank you.

The Reel Rejects - LITTLE FOCKERS (2010) MOVIE REVIEW!!

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