Hoffman and Streisand give energetic, game performances, but the movie provides them with dispiritingly little material.
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12/22/04
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
One of those relatively rare comedies that's at once puerile, charming and very funny throughout.
12/22/04
Top CriticAmusing … but not distinctive.
12/22/04
Thanks to an ensemble cast that includes Robert De Niro, Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman, Meet The Fockers is much more fun than anticipated.
12/22/04
There is some fun in watching the veterans mix it up -- De Niro, who looks like he wants to fade into the scenery, Streisand, who tries to eat it -- but nothing is well developed here.
12/22/04
This sequel keeps the laughs coming until the ending.
12/22/04
Top CriticMeet the Fockers is not a movie for the ages; it's a movie for a few good laughs.
12/22/04
Playing up the socio-religious rifts of the first film, the sequel reflects the country’s current political schisms.
12/22/04
Hoffman and Streisand are the best things about Meet the Fockers. The movie would have been better off spending more time with them instead of focusing again on the uneasy relationship between eager-to-please Greg and his father-in-law- to-be Jack.
12/22/04
Given how well Stiller and De Niro play off each other, you'll wish they had more to work with.
12/22/04
Meet the Fockers doesn't have the shabby feel of some faltering movies, but its repetitive gags and toilet humor take much of the luster off the Focker-Byrnes wedding.
12/22/04
The movie is pleasant enough, but never quite reaches critical mass as a comedy.
12/22/04
Top CriticFocking funny!
12/22/04
A rascally little play on words is the funniest element of Meet the Fockers, a sequel with big name stars and, only occasionally, laughs to match.
12/22/04
Culture-clashing through the snow, in a one-joke open sleigh, Meet the Fockers goes, laughing all the way . . . to the bank.
12/22/04
The sequel is pretty much what you'd expect--mindless fluff with maybe a little less calamity than its predecessor, but a lot more schmaltz. Oy vey!
12/22/04
Meet the Fockers is stuck somewhere between being absolutely hilarious and one of the worst comedies ever committed to celluloid.
12/22/04
Hoffman and Streisand provide some laughs in this sequel to Meet the Parents but the screenplay lacks comic zest.
12/22/04
The picture has two lingering scenes that are so excruciatingly funny they compensate for the material that flounders.
12/22/04
And you thought your parents were embarrassing.
12/22/04
Latest 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:
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February 26, 2007:
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