Watch DeNiro self-destruct in new Little Fockers trailer

I'm talking metaphorically. Unfortunately.

For a long time now, Robert DeNiro, one of the world's greatest living actors, has slowly been undoing all of the good work of his early career. The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle? That cancels out Heat. Analyze that? There goes The Deer Hunter. Camp pirate in Stardust? Christ, that practically wipes out half of his collaborations with Scorsese.

And with the last remaining films in his back-catalogue barely standing as a testament to an actor who was once a meticulous craftsman among Hollywood halfwits, DeNiro decides to ramp up the crapulator once more. This time though, not only is he tarring his already damaged reputation, but he is directly assaulting the good movies on which it was built.

Riffing on The Godfather - that is, The God'focker' (*whimpers*) - might seem like a fun play on Bobby's past career, but to the rest of us it is a sure sign that the man has officially given up on leaving any kind of respectable legacy. And all this happens before the cringeworthy wrestling. Watch and weep (and excuse the Spanish subtitles).

I once read an interview with DeNiro in which he stated that he likes making comedies now because they're easier than his tough early films. Fair enough, but you know what's even easier than that? Not making films at all. That way, we don't have to watch you become a parody of yourself and you could have forever gone down in history as the greatest actor in the world. Pacino wouldn't even come close because he would have still made S1m0ne.