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Pete Segal Taking Over for Jay Roach on Little Fockers

by Alex Billington
March 20, 2009

It looks like director Pete Segal will not be jumping onto Get Smart 2 this year was originally expected. Due to Steve Carell's choice to shoot the comedy Date Night for Fox instead of Get Smart 2, Segal was able to hop onto Little Fockers, the third film in Universal's comedy franchise comprise of Meet the Parents (2000) and Meet the Fockers (2004). Those two films were the work of director Jay Roach, who is being replaced by Segal this time around. As you might have already guessed, Little Fockers is about a baby arriving in the Focker and the Byrnes families, who were both first introduced in those past two films.

According to Variety, Little Fockers is being written by John Hamburg, who also wrote Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, and is making his directorial debut this weekend with I Love You, Man. I really like Pete Segal, he's a good guy, and a good director, but I'm just not sure about this franchise anymore. I think it's a bad sign that it has taken so long for Universal to get this third one made. And now they're replacing Roach with Segal. It could be a good choice in the end, as I was never a fan of this series and Segal could change things up, but I doubt it'll improve. I'm sure we can expect all of the actors to reprise their roles.

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Tom W

Well meet the parents was great and meet the fockers was ok but a movie about there kids is just dumb
http://movieguyreviews4u.blogspot.com Ryan

Meet the Fockers I think is the biggest grossing box office comedy of all time I think. I think both were hilarious, but a third? I think they might have waited a little too long.
Tim "Cloverfield"

NO!NO!NO!!!!! Would love to give it a chance as long as the inept, un-funny and terrible .....TERRIBLE "actor" Ben Siller is not in it.!
http://movies.iconocritic.com peloquin

I really enjoyed the first two films in the franchise and would welcome a third. I think crazy slapstick Stiller is a terrible actor, but the realist vulnerable/normal Stiller can carry a role quite well. Plus the dynamic between Hoffman and Deniro is great and definitely an unexpected comedic duo that I'll continue to enjoy while it lasts.
carlos

john hamburg's directorial debut isn't i love you, man... he directed along came polly (ANOTHER BEN STILLER COMEDY) from years ago.
Caesius

How is it too long...? People say that if things come out too quickly it's milking it too death, and now it's too long? How can it be too long other than "Oh finally it's been too long!"
Salber on Cinema

A third "Focker" movie would be geat if they can get theoriginal cast back. it's well worth to see these classic actors Dustin Hoffman, Barbara Striesand and Robert Deniro in slapschtick and intelligent(sp) comedy roles.
Jamie

I loved the first two, but it has now been five years since we last saw the fockers, and Jay Roach won't be directing. Sure Pete Segal has done a couple of good comedies (Tommy Boy/Anger Management). But Roach is the man when it comes to these's films. I think that they should just let it be.
Fisherr

Liked the 1st movie the second one was lame, the third one might look a total disaster.
Conrad

just to make a trilogy.....sad