Meet The Fockers (2004)
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Reviews Counted: 157
Fresh: 60 | Rotten: 97
Talented cast is wasted as the movie is content with recycling jokes from its predecessor, Meet the Parents.
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 41
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 24
Talented cast is wasted as the movie is content with recycling jokes from its predecessor, Meet the Parents.
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After suffering the humiliation of being given the third degree by his girlfriend's father, one man now faces the even more embarrassing task of introducing his own mother and father in this star-studded sequel to the box-office smash Meet the Parents. After getting off on the wrong foot (to put it mildly) with his prospective in-laws, Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) has finally won the grudging approval of Jack and Dina Byrnes (Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner) to marry their daughter Pam (Teri
Cast
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Robert De Niro
Jack Byrnes -
Ben Stiller
Greg Focker -
Dustin Hoffman
Bernie Focker -
Barbra Streisand
Roz Focker -
Blythe Danner
Dina Byrnes -
Teri Polo
Pamela Byrnes -
Tim Blake Nelson
Officer Le Flore -
Alanna Ubach
Isabel -
Ray Santiago
Jorge Villalobos -
Kali Rocha
Flight Atendant -
Shelley Berman
Judge Ira -
Owen Wilson
Kevin Rawley -
Spencer Pickren
Little Jack -
Bradley Pickren
Little Jack -
Rock Deadrick
Wedding Band -
Myra Turley
Admitting Nurse -
Max Hoffman
Woody Focker -
David Sutton
Wedding Band -
Wayne Thomas York
Airport Security Guard -
Kathleen Gati
Immigrant Woman -
Jack Plotnick
Rent a Car Agent -
Tiffany Turner
Girl on Bus -
J.P. Manoux
Local Cop -
Dorie Barton
Airline Clerk -
Cedric Yarbrough
Prison Guard -
B.J. Hansen
B.J. -
Vahe Bejan
Immigrant Man -
Angelo Tifee
Businessman -
Kyle T. McNamee
Undercover Waiter -
Benjamin Trueblood
Newborn Baby -
Roberto García Suárez
Waiter -
Bruno Coon
Strolling Minstrel/Band... -
Linda O'Neil
Girl on Bus -
Bernadette Perez
Girl on Bus
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All Critics (163) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (63) | Rotten (100) | DVD (35)
This sequel's title indicates the content: smutty, silly and liable to make you smirk despite yourself.
Top CriticVery often vulgar and tasteless, and though there are some unexpected bursts of humor and even charm in the proceedings, it's light years away from Chekhov.
[Hoffman and Streisand] make a wonderful team, but it's too bad the material isn't fresher and more worth their time and yours.
A vulgar farce that isn't remotely amusing.
Could have been much funnier than it is.
This film has a lot more heart and it's just a lot of fun throughout with all these wonderful actors.
Sequel to the mediocre Ben Stiller comedy "Meet The Parents" is a bawdier but inferior movie that relies on the star power of Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand as Stiller's Florida-dwelling Jewish hippie parents Bernie and Roz to fuel its ill-timed toi
A consistently entertaining, sometimes uproariously funny film.
Repeats itself and strains for laughs where the original giddily stumbled through them.
Milk bottles and related metaphors feature prominentlyas breast fetish stand-ins, but with a decidely peculiar asymmetrical preference for just the left one.
Has its smattering of laughs, but the new faces bring fewer dividends than the elemental De Niro/Ben Stiller showdown of the original.
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Meet the Fockers is frequently funny, but it turns a bit too cruel in the third act to be as worthy a sequel to its predecessor as it could have been
Fans of the first will find some amusement in familiarity, but with such a comically able cast this is a missed opportunity.
The expected misunderstandings ensue, as you'd expect, which would be pretty excruciating if not for the performances of Hoffman and Streisand.
Meet The Fockers has assembled a historic, once-in-a-lifetime cast, then stranded them in the laziest, most mercenary kind of sequel imaginable. It's like the 1927 Yankees taking on the Special Olympics softball team.
[Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand] seem to have been waiting their whole careers to do unrestrained comedy, and they step into their roles with unparalleled enthusiasm.
Amazing how altering one vowel from the king of all cuss words can spawn a movie franchise.
Audience Reviews for Meet The Fockers
Super Reviewer
Don't get me wrong. This is not a movie for everyone. First off, the writers did not miss a single opportunity to play off of the name "Focker". It's silly and gets a little old but it somehow works with the other repetitious low-down gags.
Focker is the family name for Greg (Focker), Ben Stiller. The funniest Fockers, however, (now I'm doing it) are Greg's parents Bernie and Roz, a loose and liberal Florida hippy couple still living in the last century and enjoying every minute of it. Dustin Hoffman, as Bernie displays a previously unrevealed talent for over the top comedy. Fitting perfectly with Hoffman's Bernie, is Barbra Streisand as Roz Focker, reminiscent of the "zaftig" Lainie Kazan. Bernie is a yesteryear lawyer who has not practiced since who knows when. Roz is the main breadwinner from her business as a sex therapist to the elderly.
Greg is not too eager to reveal his parents' true nature to his fiancée's parents as they all come to visit to get to know one another better. Teri Polo nicely plays Greg's fiancée Pam. Robert DeNiro and Blythe Danner play her stiff and straight parents, Jack and Dina Byrnes. Oh - also add in some baby low-brow by Spencer and Bradley Pickeren, two adorable twins playing Little Jack/. 2 stars 9-27-07
Super Reviewer
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- Jack Byrnes: You gonna bother me about a steak?!
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- Isabel: So many wonderful memories from those days..
- Greg Focker: Yeah, so many wonderful... kind of private memories..
- Isabel: So... you didn't tell your fiancee about us?
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