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.
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Comedies
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... [More]
Starring: Robert DeNiro, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand
Director: Jay Roach
Reviews for Meet the Fockers
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A consistently entertaining, sometimes uproariously funny film. Full Review |
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This sequel’s title indicates the content: smutty, silly and liable to make you smirk despite yourself. Full Review |
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 2/5 |
Fans of the first will find some amusement in familiarity, but with such a comically able cast this is a missed opportunity. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Hoffman, in particular, is a delight - he has an infectious comic energy that seems to light up the rest of the cast. Full Review |
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3/5 |
Although not as disarmingly funny the second time around, inspired casting means that, unlike most in-laws, the Fockers don't outstay their welcome. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
While there is a serious subtext, cast and crew remember that this is essentially a frivolous comedy Full Review |
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C- |
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 Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
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2/5 |
Repeats itself and strains for laughs where the original giddily stumbled through them. Full Review |
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Milk bottles and related metaphors feature prominentlyas breast fetish stand-ins, but with a decidely peculiar asymmetrical preference for just the left one. Full Review |
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Has its smattering of laughs, but the new faces bring fewer dividends than the elemental De Niro/Ben Stiller showdown of the original. Full Review |
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3/5 |
full review in Greek Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
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 Full Review |
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2/5 |
The expected misunderstandings ensue, as you’d expect, which would be pretty excruciating if not for the performances of Hoffman and Streisand. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
[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. Full Review |
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B- |
Amazing how altering one vowel from the king of all cuss words can spawn a movie franchise. Full Review |
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2/4 |
...just as mediocre and gratingly unfunny as its predecessor... Full Review |
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2/5 |
Catch it on HBO for the sheer delight of everything Hoffman and Streisand do. It’s fun to meet the Fockers themselves, but the rest of the movie can stay home. Full Review |
CommentLatest News for Meet the Fockers
November 18, 2008:
More Fockers for Stiller? 
According to Roger Friedman at Fox News, the wheels are turning on another "Meet the Parents" sequel. More...
May 21, 2008:
More Austin Powers, Meet the Parents Sequels?
According to producer/director Jay Roach, we may yet see more sequels in the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents franchises. More...
April 22, 2008:
Pacino, De Niro Take Lumps for Recent Choices
Robert De Niro and Al Pacino might be among the greatest living American actors -- but have they forgotten why they started acting in the first place? More...
February 26, 2007:
Yep, "Little Fockers"
Isn't it hilarious how "Fockers" sounds so much like a rrrrreally dirty word? So funny, in fact, that the gag is about to inspire its second film! Expect the whole... More...
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