Mon beau-père et nous

Le plus faible des trois, même si ce dernier opus est celui qui regroupe le plus d’acteurs célèbres. Le pire, dans Mon beau-père et nous, c’est le fait qu’il n’a pas vraiment de ligne narrative fixe. Ainsi, on se traîne dans l’obscurité au cours de la première demi-heure avant de passer à un enchaînement de gags, réussis ou pas, et parfois même répétés. Le premier film plaçait la barre assez haut, le deuxième maintenait le niveau et le troisième, lui, s’enfonce substantiellement. Et ce n’est pas la présence de Jessica Alba qui sauve la mise, vu qu’elle joue encore un rôle de dinde stupide – même si elle le joue très bien. Une mauvaise impression qui se voit encore renforcée par le personnage absolument débile d’Owen Wilson. Un petit trois étoiles, Robert De Niro et Dustin Hoffman empêchant le naufrage. (25/12/2010)

You'll have fun, not that you won't, but I think it’s rather sad to be entertained in this style while watching actors of De Niro's calibre or Stiller's undeniable comedic talent. All the stuff that worked in the first film, because it looked cute and innocent, and culminated in the second thanks to the lively characters of Hoffman and Streisand, sounds annoying and somehow superfluous here. Some scenes, if you have the appropriate amount of tolerance, still have the right crazy charge, and the sad presence of those great actors is positive, but otherwise this is perhaps a vulgar insult to the more intelligent part of the audience, who still put their trust in their darlings, and a prime example of a stupid star trademark created just to sell as much as possible... 50% (17/08/2011)

Even though it is the third film from this family, Little Fockers still has the potential to entertain. The family has grown, the characters have aged, but the feud between father-in-law and son-in-law remains. While the film doesn't bring anything new to the table, it still offers some funny and imaginative moments, like the references to The Godfather and Jaws. You pretty much know how it's all going to turn out from the beginning, but it never gets boring and goes by pretty fast, so the predictability doesn't matter. (15/01/2023)

The third Fockers pleased me a bit more than the second, at times terribly overstuffed and at times desperately empty... This time I found the film more balanced and somehow calmer. It's a pity that it didn't avoid the "humorous" bodily fluids and that the script followed the old familiar Yebal vs. Byrnes model, which simply can't surprise anyone anymore. There were jokes in the film, however, and a surprising number of them. My fondest memories will be of the Godfather references and the impeccable Jaws parody that Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller played in a pool full of plastic balls at the end. That made me laugh to tears. So three and a bit. (21/09/2012)