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December 22nd, 2004 |
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PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, language and a brief drug reference. |
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Universal Pictures |
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1 hr. 54 min. |
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Overwiew :Streisand and Hoffman play the Fockers (pronounced Fawkers), the parents of male nurse Greg Focker (Ben Stiller), who is engaged to Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo). In this film, the free-spirited Fockers meet the uptight Jack and Dinah Byrnes, played again by Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner. The Fockers and the Byrneses are woefully mismatched from the start, and no matter how hard Greg and Pam try, there is just no bringing their families together, which all adds up to a disastrously funny time of, getting to know you. |
Starring :
Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner
Directors :
Jay Roach
Producers :
Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro, Jay Roach
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movie-reviews.colossus.net - : Movie-reviews - I am not a fan of Meet the Parents, the 2000 film that introduced Ben Stiller to the joys of having an ex-CIA agent as a potential father-in-law. The movie is too much like a sit-com, although, as a counterbalance, it offers several big laughs. Meet the Fockers, the 2004 follow-up, plays much like the original, but with less effective humor... more...
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metromix.chicagotribune.com - : Chicago Tribune - ''Meet the Parents'' worked well as a comedy of manners, but even more so as a deft comedy of subtleties. Greg's white lies, passive-aggressive showdown with Kevin and mutually exclusive quest to impress the Byrneses and stay true to his helping professional-self were perfectly matched to Jack, who, if you shifted the paradigm just a few degrees, might have been a rational dad. more...
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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : Chicago Sun-Times - The movie is pleasant enough, but never quite reaches critical mass as a comedy. The director, Jay Roach, who made ''Meet the Parents'' and the ''Austin Powers'' movies, has some funny stuff, including Father Focker's proud display of all of his son's trophies (''I didn't know they made ninth-place ribbons,'' Jack muses). There's some wordplay involving the Byrnes family Circle of Trust and who is in it, who is outside it, and whose circle it is. Streisand and Hoffman create characters who are, under the circumstances, not only likable but actually sort of believable. Yet even if you loved ''Meet the Parents,'' you will only sorta kinda like ''Meet the Fockers.'' more...
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www.boston.com - : Boston Globe - It did and it does. I'm sad to report that ''Meet the Fockers'' is a resolutely average sequel, several subbasements below the first film in both comic inspiration and energy. Given the rare alignment of stars -- De Niro and Hoffman in their third film together, Streisand in her first in eight years -- it can only be considered a disappointment. more...
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