Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

bkoganbing In Meet The Parents Ben Stiller had to win the trust of Robert DeNiro and Blythe Danner the parents of his girl friend Teri Polo, that famed 'circle of trust' in the Byrnes family. Now the whole family is going to Florida where Stiller's parents the Fockers have a palatial estate and ideas that definitely run counter to those espoused by DeNiro.That opposition is the basis of the wonderful comedy in this sequel to Meet The Parents. With the casting of Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand as Stiller's parents, Meet The Fockers is as funny, maybe funnier than the original film.A whole lot of Focker family secrets are exposed in this comedy and with three of the biggest movie names in the past 40 years in the cast there was definitely built in box office. DeNiro, Hoffman, and Streisand show some incredible comic timing in this film.There's nothing these two families agree on. Even down to the fact that Hoffman's a dog person and DeNiro a cat person is humorous material. The cat turning on the dog in the DeNiro/Danner trailer is a memorable scene.Another favorite of mine are the touch football sequence. I doubt Kennedy family touch football was ever like this. There's also a memorable encounter with a Barney Fife like deputy where DeNiro, Hoffman, and Stiller all go to the pokey. Oddly enough Danner and Streisand hit it off well. Streisand is a sex therapist and makes good money doing it as we see by the way the Fockers live. In fact Hoffman though a lawyer became a stay at home dad. That really gets super macho DeNiro's dander up.Fans of any and all of the players here should make Meet The Fockers a must for your viewing list.

l_rawjalaurence MEET THE FOCKERS is a family comedy in which two ill-matched couples meet over a weekend, argue and fight with each other, and then agree in the end to sanction the wedding of their children. A familiar plot, allowing plenty of opportunity for comic situations with a soupçon of sentiment. What is perhaps most remarkable about this film is the not only talent assembled - Robert de Niro, Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller and Blythe Danner - but how director Jay Roach manages to waste it throughout the film's over-stretched 155-minute running time. Yes, it might be fun to watch de Niro hamming it up as a retired CIA officer with an obsession for surveillance; or witness Hoffman overact fearfully as a middle-aged man pretending to be young; or look at Stiller trying and failing to keep the two families on an even keel. But when the film ends up trying to get laughs out of a libidinous chihuahua chasing an aggressive cat, we sense the desperation running through it. The best part about it comes right at the end, when Owen Wilson turns in a cameo as Kevin Rawley, charged with the responsibility of marrying the (un)lucky couple; through eye-work alone he manages to raise more laughs than in the previous 110 or so minutes.

tbills2 I love Meet the Fockers! Love everything about it. It's so funny! More so so very good. Every scene is great. Maybe it's not as funny as Meet the Parents the original. Nor as goooood......But personally, I love Meet the Fockers by far more. And nothing personal against the original. Meet the Fockers has a greater cast is all. Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman as Rozalin and Bernie Focker is exactly what this sequel needed. Oh my Gosh, they are so funny. The best! They interact hilariously with Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner as Jack and Dina Byrnes, who are great! I love them! There is a real lovely chemistry happening between Danner, De Niro, Hoffman, and Streisand, and those four stars make this movie. I love Ben Stiller as Greg Focker. He's great. But Stiller takes a backseat to the shenanigans of Greg and Pam's parents. "Honey, I'm in the mood for a chimichanga. So make a chimichanga!" Bernie and Roz are the funniest! Stiller does a fine job holding his own against such great actors, and Teri Polo does too. Dustin Hoffman is phenomenal. Barbra Streisand stills looks so very crazily attractive. Robert De Niro completely falls into his character for his comedic role as Jack Byrnes giving the character great depth making Jack Byrnes intensely interesting but in such at sometime a little offbeat for a comedy but still I feel mostly appropriately light for a comedy allowing the character to be..........attractive. Speaking of attractive! Blythe Danner!...Oh my God! Simply lovely. Simply beautiful. She is the most gorgeous. Oh, goodness. Barbra, I think I'm getting a little verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves. Here I'll give you a topic. Blythe Danner is the sexiest woman alive. Discuss! I love you, Blythe! Teri Polo returns to her role as Pam and couldn't be sweeter or sincerer. Meet the Fockers is the real best. It has great heart. One of my favorite comedies. One of my favorite movies too! I can watch it a million times and it will always be funny because it never gets old! "Honey, I'm in the mood for a chimichanga. So make a chimichanga!"

ctomvelu1 Yet another sequel that should never have been made, FOCKERS has Teri Polo's parents (DeNiro and Danner) driving to Florida to meet and spend time with Ben Stiller's parents (Hoffman and Streisand). Polo's parents bring along a young grandson who serves as the Cheetah (Tarzan's comic relief) in this fairly lame movie. Whole bits from the original are reused here, but they're not as funny the second time around. The novelty here is having Hoffman and DeNiro appear together -- and for the most ardent movie buffs, they will spot Pacino in a very brief scene. The three great ethnic actors of the 20th century in one movie! The vulgar jokes pile up pretty quickly, most of which aren't particularly funny. Ah well, none of this matters as the movie made a fortune. It's a formula comedy.