Packed with cringe-worthy moments from beginning to end, Jay Roach's comedy is for anyone who has ever endured a weekend in the company of potential in-laws.
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08/15/08
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Meet the Parents (2000)
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Reviews Counted: 137
Fresh: 115
Rotten:22
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Consensus: This upbeat comedy is hilarious and, at the same time, believable and something people can relate to.
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) is head over heels in love with his girlfriend Pam (Teri Polo), and is ready to pop the big question. When his attempt to propose is thwarted by a phone call with the news that Pam's younger sister is getting married,... [More]
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo, Blythe Danner
Director: Jay Roach
Reviews for Meet the Parents
Top Critic
Top Critic This is, unquestionably, the best comedy currently on release. Highly recommended.
10/30/02
Top Critic A brilliant comedy in which we laugh that we do not cry -- although we do wince, as every expectation the main character has of things turning out okay crumbles and his face gets ever the redder.
02/07/01
With current comedy obsessed with oh-so-clever ironic gestures and tricksy pastiche, Meet the Parents' dedication to consistent, straightforward belly laughs is totally refreshing.
01/01/00
Top Critic Alas, poor Focker. He can't help himself. And we can't help ourselves from falling about, equally helpless, at this superbly antic movie.
08/15/08
Top Critic Owes about 55 percent of its charm to De Niro, who can be hilarious just sitting there.
03/11/08
Director Jay Roach of the Austin Powers films keeps the pace brisk, and the script by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg ably piles the pratfalls ludicrously high.
07/14/07
Stiller portrays a human accident better than anyone and he definitely knows how to extort laughs and sympathy from his audience
09/27/06
Contains enough belly-laughs and sly jokes to become one of the bigger crowd-pleasers of the fall.
07/24/06
What saves the movie from remaining an exercise in self-parody for all involved is director Roach's feel for the material.
12/06/05
Never before have two such skilled actors been so monstrously squandered in a movie so replete with failed gags and pathetic gaffes.
12/06/05
An entertaining little outing, but not something that will stay with me.
04/09/05
The best American comedy of 2000. It has wit, slapstick and romance -- as well as an improbable comedy team in Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller
01/03/05
Does the usual Hollywood bit of setting up the gags way in advance so that even a coma patient can spot them.
10/24/03
This film is almost too real to be funny. It is one uncomfortable moment after another — and that is what Stiller does best, but director Roach would have done well to tone it down a bit.
02/08/03
Latest News for Meet the Parents
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...
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...
February 23, 2007:
The Weekly Ketchup: A "Simpsons Movie" Trailer, "Pirates 3" and "Dark Knight" Tidbits, And More!
In this week's Ketchup, more trailers, spoilers and other tidbits, for "The Simpsons Movie," "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End," and "The Dark... More...
February 01, 2007:
Teri Polo is Expecting a "Little Focker"
Don't even pretend to be surprised when I tell you that a movie called "Meet the Little Focker" is on its way. Don't even try it. More...
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