My New Year’s plea to Stiller? Watch Sideways. Rinse. Repeat.
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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
The audience laughed more because they wanted to find it funny than because they actually did.
12/22/04
Meet the Fockers isn't quite as funny as its predecessor, but it definitely has its moments.
12/22/04
The ideas behind Meet The Fockers are the best part of this zany sequel to Meet The Parents, but getting Fockerised is not as funny as it should be.
12/22/04
Coasts on considerable star power to make us laugh with some consistency but never approaches the level of fearless comic abandon that made the first film so popular.
12/22/04
Meet The Fockers is a fine sequel; not surpassing the original, but clearly putting forth more of an effort than most follow-ups do into the script department.
12/21/04
MtF works rather well – although it sometimes lacks the smoothness of its predecessor.
12/21/04
This isn’t just a second helping of Gaylord Focker humiliation, for once here’s a comedy sequel that manages to revisit its world without banally repeating it.
12/21/04
Hoffman and Streisand...are a wonderful addition to the comedic mix with their relaxed, laid back lifestyle and penchant for randy sex
12/21/04
Barbra Streisand has the show-stopping moments in this uneven comedy.
12/21/04
Because no good joke in Hollywood goes untold again ... and again, the mixed-couple setup receives another extended workout in this modestly amusing sequel.
12/21/04
Top CriticThis sequel to 2000's Meet the Parents knows that its audience expects a symphony of outrageousness. Anyone who resists is pummeled into submission by the sheer pace and volume of the comic antics.
12/21/04
The gap between the first and second installments isn't as gaping as with, for instance, Analyze This and Analyze That, but the laughs Fockers generates are the type you feel embarrassed about almost immediately afterward.
12/21/04
Top CriticFormulaic but consistently funny.
12/21/04
So many subplots are piled onto Meet the Fockers that it's a wonder any of the glittering talents assembled here have room to be funny.
12/21/04
A weary retread without a fraction of the inventiveness that sparked the original.
12/21/04
Never has so much talent been wasted with so little imagination.
12/21/04
Director Jay Roach gives the film no visual distinction whatsoever but packs on the jokes with tireless bustle.
12/21/04
The ensemble's giddy chemistry and the addition of perfectly cast topliners Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand should find Fockers entertaining huge crowds for the holidays and beyond.
12/21/04
Top CriticThough 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.
12/21/04
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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