From The Makers Of 'Little Fockers': How To Be A Good Family Man
By Claire Daniel. Posted on .
Were you among the many who trekked over the river and through the woods this past holiday weekend to catch Little Fockers on the big screen?
The third movie in the very profitable Meet the Parents franchise brings back together a star-studded cast to let you in on what happened with the Fockers' happily ever after.
For Ben Stiller's character it's the usual story: Children. Job. Responsibilities. Of course there is the snooping father-in-law (Robert De Niro), his wife's ex-boyfriend (Owen Wilson), and a sexy prescription drug rep (Jessica Alba) to keep the story moving along.
What's most interesting in the storyline was the how-to-be-a-man rubric handed down from De Niro to Stiller in preparation for the patriarchal power transfer. Are you ready to be the GodFocker? he asked.
The man, as the head of the family, has three responsibilities: To provide 1) a home for his family, 2) an education for his children, 3) and to have "his financial house in order."
That doesn't sound so bad, right? But yet it proved to be conditions too stressful for (Spoiler Alert) Dr. Bob, the now no-good husband whose marriage took place in the first movie.
Children, apparently, change everything. Responsibility, it seems, just isn't sexy. The pressure of it all, of being The GodFocker, enough to drive any decent couple towards separation. Let the hilarity ensue.
The truth is this... wouldn't you hope that the requirements for being "The GodFocker" be standard for any man wanting to be a good husband and smiled-upon son-in-law? They don't seem outlandish at all. Of course, as you can expect, it doesn't stop there... and we don't want to ruin the movie. All we want to say is perhaps Papa Byrne knows what he's talking about.
