De Niro, Hoffman Slum in Ghastly ‘Fockers’; ‘Illusionist’: Film

In “Little Fockers,” Jack Byrnes worries that his gawky grandson Henry may have a “double dose” of his bumbling father’s DNA.

More disturbing is the third dose of this comedy series starring Ben Stiller as nurse Greg Focker and Robert De Niro as Byrnes, his control freak father-in-law. It’s a lame effort to milk more money from a blockbuster franchise that peaked with the original “Meet the Parents” and began its precipitous slide with the follow-up “Meet the Fockers.”