Average to crap

Rating: 5/10 (12 December 2008)

THE FOCKERS franchise belongs to a stream of unsubtle and very explicit and gross humor. Sometimes overstretched and vulgar.
I have found it generally dimwitted and murky.
The second installment is maybe less good than the first one; Hoffman does a very unlikable role, typically inept and overthetop . Or maybe it is just that I wholly dislike this human breedthe remnants of the '60s (--Byrnes, on the other hand, pals, brings in an interfaith minister --).The comic is less good, much more mechanic and artificial, and quite crass. De Niro is good (his role consists of a very narrow and readymade routine ), and so are Mrs. Danner, Streisand, and Stiller. The first hour of the movie is enjoyable; then, it becomes monotonous and trite.
I liked Isabel.
Under Penthotal ,Stiller admits liking Blythe Danner.