Little Fockers 2010

David Germain, Associated Press: Grit your teeth through the fairly short though agonizing duration of its stay. Read more

Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: I did not find Little Fockers to be particularly excruciating. Indeed, I laughed pretty hard several times Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: How do you top Ms. Streisand and Mr. Hoffman playing at being the happy, sexy hippie couple for easy jokes? You don't. Apparently, you don't even try, as is evident from the new movie's lack of wit and surplus of lazy scenes. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: There's really no focking place for the franchise to go anymore... Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Between them, Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson, Laura Dern, Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand have 20 Academy Award nominations (six of them wins) in various categories. And yet none of them could think of anything better to do than appear in Little Fockers? Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: When the conclusion leaves the door open for still another sequel, it feels like an invitation to a living wake. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Is there a statute of limitations for how many good actors can be wasted in a bad movie? Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The Focker franchise has become such a swell payday that now everyone wants in on the act; apparently even the original stars are allowed only a plus-one. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: De Niro suffers most of the head-banging indignities in "Little Fockers." The more he throws himself into the reaction shots and the mugging, the more you wonder if he's really having a good time with this desperate material. Read more

Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: If you've seen one, you've seen 'em all. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Little Fockers packs in all the cynicism and laziness of a tired franchise's third chapter. It's the drive-through version of comfort food, comedy by repetition and indigestion. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: The jokes are a bit randy, the situations and characters familiar, the touching moments false but fitting. It's all as formulaic as weak egg nog, but it goes down just as easy. Let's hope all involved spend their paychecks wisely. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: It may be time to try another household for laughs. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: Unsavory hodgepodge from a franchise that has overstayed its welcome. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: The sheer pleasure of the first film in 2000, already dimming by the time we got to "Meet the Fockers" four years later, has officially gone kaput. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Only a sucker wouldn't try to squeeze more dough out of a franchise that is beloved the world over. But couldn't they have tried? At least just a little? Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: By now you would think the concept had run its course. You'd be right, too. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: All together now: "FockersFockers-Fockers." Are you rolling on the floor in hilarity? Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Sprints past "unfunny," is still going strong when it reaches "disaster" and easily reaches "cautionary tale." Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: The million-dollar cast doesn't make the vulgar penny-ante jokes any funnier. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Rarely does a comedy bring such an overpowering sense of sadness. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: The second sequel to 2000's Meet the Parents defines uncalled for. Little Fockers is upchuckingly unfunny. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: They kill me, these guys. No, seriously. If they make any more of these movies, they might as well kill me. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: I thought it would take years for Owen Wilson to appear in a movie worse than "How Do You Know," but he has outdone himself. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: It's about squeezing the last few dollars from a gullible public like milk from a cat. Read more

Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Carving knife + severed artery = tons of bloody fun. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: There is being a good sport and there is career suicide, and De Niro is skating perilously close to the edge. Read more

Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: I'm afraid the DeNiro of The Godfather, Part II and Goodfellas has mostly faded from my mind, replaced by the DeNiro of the Fockers -- a grim-faced comedian who tends to make me sad. Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Very weak. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: It takes too long for the story to take off and even longer for the comedy to kick in. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: A lazy attempt to milk a few more laughs and bucks from the enormously lucrative property. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Game performances and a couple of half-laughs, sure, but this is the screen comedy equivalent of the televised Yule log. Read more

Sean O'Connell, Washington Post: We must have been pretty naughty this year for Santa to stuff a lump of coal like Little Fockers into our cinematic stockings. Read more