{"id":396878,"date":"2026-04-17T11:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/396878\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T11:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T11:11:17","slug":"ben-stiller-admits-he-isnt-a-fan-of-every-meet-the-parents-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/396878\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stiller admits he isn&#8217;t a fan of every Meet the Parents movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ben Stiller has admitted that he doesn&#8217;t love all of the instalments in the Meet the Parents franchise.<br \/>The actor, who has starred in the four-film comedy franchise since 2000&#8217;s Meet the Parents, made the admission when an Ariana Grande fan asked if she needed to watch the previous three films to follow the upcoming Focker-in-Law, which features the pop star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fan asked on X, &#8220;Yall I did not watch the first 3 movies (and I don&#8217;t want to watch it either) but I want to watch the 4th one. Will I lose major plot?&#8221; and Stiller replied, &#8220;No! But I stand by the first two.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With his message, the Zoolander star revealed that he supports the 2000 original and its 2004 sequel Meet the Fockers, but feels less enthusiastic about the third instalment, 2010&#8217;s Little Fockers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;So what went wrong with Little Fockers? You worked on it,&#8221; a different user asked, to which Stiller responded, &#8220;We always try. Fully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Earlier this week, Stiller and his Meet the Parents co-star Robert De Niro made an appearance at CinemaCon in Las Vegas to promote Focker-in-Law, which will be released on 25 November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The There&#8217;s Something About Mary actor also addressed a detractor of the film when he shared the new trailer on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;No one ..and I mean NO ONE was asking for a fourth serving of this&#8230;.,&#8221; the user wrote, to which Stiller replied, &#8220;You&#8217;re free to miss it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Grande joins the franchise as Olivia Jones, who gets engaged to Stiller and Teri Polo&#8217;s on-screen son Henry, played by Skyler Gisondo. The news causes chaos within the family as they believe Olivia is all wrong for Henry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The film also stars returning cast members Owen Wilson and Blythe Danner, as well as newcomer Beanie Feldstein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Stiller has admitted that he doesn&#8217;t love all of the instalments in the Meet the Parents franchise.The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3050,3991,146,85,46,72700,188335],"class_list":{"0":"post-396878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ariana-grande","9":"tag-ben-stiller","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-meet-the-parents","14":"tag-olivia-jones"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}