{"id":402908,"date":"2026-04-17T05:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402908\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T05:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:44:08","slug":"ben-stiller-reveals-he-didnt-love-all-the-meet-the-parents-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402908\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stiller Reveals He Didn’t Love All the ‘Meet the Parents’ Sequels"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAs fans anticipate the new addition of Ariana Grande<\/a> to the Meet the Parents<\/a> franchise, original star Ben Stiller<\/a> has revealed that he didn\u2019t love all the previous sequels.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter 2000\u2019s Meet the Parents became a box office hit, Stiller and Robert De Niro<\/a> went on to reprise their roles as Greg Focker and Jack Byrnes, respectively, in three more installments: 2004\u2019s Meet the Fockers, 2010\u2019s Little Fockers and the upcoming Focker-In-Law.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new film, hitting theaters on Nov. 25, centers on Greg and Pam Focker\u2019s (Teri Polo) son Henry (Skyler Gisondo), who causes family chaos when he decides to marry Olivia Jones (Grande), a strong-willed woman who appears to be his complete mismatch. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Arianators are clearly excited, with one asking on X, \u201cYall I did not watch the first 3 movies (and I don\u2019t want to watch it either) but I want to watch the 4th one. Will I lose major plot?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd none other than Greg Foster himself, aka Stiller, replied<\/a>: \u201cNo! But I stand by the first two.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThough the Zoolander star didn\u2019t share details on why he isn\u2019t a big fan of the third installment, another person followed up in a second post, \u201cSo what went wrong with Little Fockers? You worked on it.\u201d Stiller added, \u201cWe always try. Fully.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLittle Fockers definitely won\u2019t be making it on Stiller\u2019s list of all-time favorite films, but he does seem excited about the new sequel with Grande following his recent appearance at CinemaCon<\/a> in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile on stage during Universal\u00a0Pictures\u2019 presentation, the Night at the Museum actor joked that the franchise\u2019s team planned a \u201cfully intentional 15-year break between movies three and four.\u201d Stiller also teased De Niro at one point, noting that he\u2019s now roughly the same age that the Oscar winner was in the 2000 film.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI guess you could say I\u2019m the new De Niro of the franchise,\u201d Stiller quipped, leading De Niro to come out and defend himself. \u201cDon\u2019t say that. It\u2019s very disrespectful,\u201d the Killers of the Flower Moon actor replied. \u201cYou made a very unflattering comparison that forced me to defend my honor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0Owen Wilson and\u00a0Blythe Danner\u00a0and\u00a0Polo\u00a0are also all reprising their roles in Focker-In-Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As fans anticipate the new addition of Ariana Grande to the Meet the Parents franchise, original star Ben…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[8420,32819,93,67522,61,60,71111,270,48807],"class_list":{"0":"post-402908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ariana-grande","9":"tag-ben-stiller","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-focker-in-law","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-meet-the-parents","15":"tag-movies","16":"tag-robert-de-niro"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}