Ben Stiller looks the same as he did during Parents in 2000, but pity poor Teri Polo who's putting on miles faster than Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
Meet the Fockers (2004)
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Reviews Counted:154
Fresh:59
Rotten:95
Average Rating:5.1/10
Consensus: Talented cast is wasted as the movie is content with recycling jokes from its predecessor, Meet the Parents.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for crude and sexual humor, language and a brief drug reference.
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Dec 22, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $279,167,575
Synopsis: Following the knee-slapping hit MEET THE PARENTS, director Jay Roach once again keeps audiences roaring with laughter as he presents this hilarious sequel. This time, young engaged couple Pam (Teri... Following the knee-slapping hit MEET THE PARENTS, director Jay Roach once again keeps audiences roaring with laughter as he presents this hilarious sequel. This time, young engaged couple Pam (Teri Polo) and Greg (Ben Stiller) are getting their parents together a few months before the wedding. Greg nervously plans out every detail of the trip, only to be usurped by Pam's domineering ex-CIA-man father (Robert DeNiro). Not only has he purchased an RV, insisting they'll be driving from New York City to the Fockers' home in Miami, but he's bringing along his perfect baby grandson. When they finally arrive at the Fockers' house, Greg's parents, Bernie and Roz (Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand), turn out to be sex-addicted hippies and not at all what the Byrnes (DeNiro and Blythe Danner) had expected. With one pitfall after another, the film takes the concept of awkward in-law experiences to new heights, from stories about past sexual experiences to detailed discussion of current ones. What's worse, the Fockers are teaching the baby curse words and weaning him on rum, to the shock of his overprotective grandparents. Every conversation is totally inappropriate and downright embarrassing, keeping audiences braced for the next disaster. Along the way, all six cast members turn in topnotch performances, with Hoffman, Streisand, and Stiller leading the charge in true Focker spirit. [More]
Starring: Robert DeNiro, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand
Starring: Robert DeNiro, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo
Director: Jay Roach
Director: Jay Roach
Story: Jim Herzfeld, Marc Hyman
Screenwriter: John Hamburg, Jim Herzfeld
Producer: Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, Jay Roach
Studio: Universal Pictures
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Reviews for Meet the Fockers
Fans of the first will find some amusement in familiarity, but with such a comically able cast this is a missed opportunity.
Culture-clashing through the snow, in a one-joke open sleigh, Meet the Fockers goes, laughing all the way . . . to the bank.
The exceptional cast turned the garden-variety script they were given into a movie that should please crowds throughout the holiday season.
Though it's good to see [Stiller] back in his stumbling, bumbling element, it's a bummer to see his element wasted in such stumbling, bumbling gags.
Director Jay Roach gives the film no visual distinction whatsoever but packs on the jokes with tireless bustle.
This sequel’s title indicates the content: smutty, silly and liable to make you smirk despite yourself.
Very 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.
You'd think after an eight-year absence from the screen, [Streisand would] return with more self-respect.
Could they not have come up with anything but lumpish, vulgar humor and dumb “Focker” puns?
Stiller — by starring in Meet the Fockers, one of the year’s final releases — pulls into a buzzer-beating tie with Jude Law as the most-overexposed actor of the movie year.
Amazing how altering one vowel from the king of all cuss words can spawn a movie franchise.
Latest News for Meet the Fockers
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May 21, 2008:
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February 26, 2007:
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