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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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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.

Full Review Source: MovieJuice! | comment 1 Comment
12/31/04
Mark Ramsey
Mark Ramsey
MovieJuice!

This sequel keeps the laughs coming until the ending.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
12/22/04
E! Online
N/R

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Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
12/27/04
Boston Phoenix
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Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
12/27/04
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Full Review Source: Sunday Times (Australia) | comment Comment
01/15/05
Sunday Times (Australia)

Fans of the first will find some amusement in familiarity, but with such a comically able cast this is a missed opportunity.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/01/06
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Full Review Source: Sunday Times (Australia) | comment Comment
10/18/08
Sunday Times (Australia)

Culture-clashing through the snow, in a one-joke open sleigh, Meet the Fockers goes, laughing all the way . . . to the bank.

Full Review Source: Premiere Magazine | comment Comment
12/22/04
Aaron Hillis
Aaron Hillis
Premiere Magazine

The exceptional cast turned the garden-variety script they were given into a movie that should please crowds throughout the holiday season.

Full Review Source: Juicy Cerebellum | comment Comment
12/23/04
Alex Sandell
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum

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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
12/21/04
Allison Benedikt
Allison Benedikt
Chicago Tribune

Director Jay Roach gives the film no visual distinction whatsoever but packs on the jokes with tireless bustle.

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
12/21/04
Amy Biancolli
Amy Biancolli
Houston Chronicle

This sequel’s title indicates the content: smutty, silly and liable to make you smirk despite yourself.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Amy Simmons
Amy Simmons
Time Out

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.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
01/27/05
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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You'd think after an eight-year absence from the screen, [Streisand would] return with more self-respect.

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Mercury | comment Comment
12/27/04
Anthony Del Valle
Anthony Del Valle
Las Vegas Mercury

Could they not have come up with anything but lumpish, vulgar humor and dumb “Focker” puns?

Full Review Source: Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah) | comment Comment
12/28/04
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

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.

Full Review Source: Lowell Sun | comment Comment
12/21/04
Austin O'Connor
Austin O'Connor
Lowell Sun

The most disappointing sequel of 2004.

Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | comment Comment
12/28/04
Betty Jo Tucker
Betty Jo Tucker
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

Amazing how altering one vowel from the king of all cuss words can spawn a movie franchise.

Full Review Source: FromTheBalcony | comment Comment
06/21/05
Bill Clark
Bill Clark
FromTheBalcony

Often-uproarious.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
12/24/04
Bill Muller
Bill Muller
Arizona Republic
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My New Year’s plea to Stiller? Watch Sideways. Rinse. Repeat.

Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine | comment Comment
12/22/04
Brent Simon
Brent Simon
Now Playing Magazine
 
 
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November 18, 2008: More Fockers for Stiller? Opens in new window
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