His character has to evolve. And if you're fine with that idea, than you might enjoy the movie. Although the comic premise does promise many good things, not all are played out. But still it's funny enough. The new addition to the cast of the first movie fit in nicely. The Fockers Dustin Hoffman and B. Streisand are funny, although sometimes they do seem to overact a little bit. Of course they have to be the exact opposite of the Byrnes, because only then the humor works!
It's fun, it's light, nothing more nothing less! Gaylord Focker and Pam Byrnes are ready to be married, but first they think their parents ought to meet. Picking up where the first film left off, we now have another set of parents just as quirky as the first, giving us double the insanity. For fans of the first film, this should be a treat! For me, I'm getting my fill of Ben Stiller. He doesn't seem to really have a lot of range and his style isn't so amazing.
What's the last great film he had? I loved "Dodgeball" and his cameos are always nice "Happy Gilmore", for example but he seems to play the same guy over and over Gaylord Focker really isn't much different from the Ben Stiller in "There's Something About Mary". Also, this film relies almost entirely on potty humor. Some people will really be happy about the humor, whereas I prefer a more witty and sarcastic film.
Cats flushing toilets, sexual elderly people, fake breasts. Not my sort of thing, really. The film was a good pace, so it was easily watchable even if it wasn't my style.
And the addition of Dustin Hoffman to the cast was great. Robert DeNiro really runs the plot I think he overshadows Stiller on many occasions , but Dustin Hoffman is the gem here. In a recent review for "Stranger Than Fiction", I say much the same thing. But it's true -- Hoffman has a subtlety about him where he blends perfectly into his roles and seems more lifelike than the rest of the cast. Barbara Streisand was also nice, which is odd because she's Barbra Streisand.
The rest of the cast was unremarkable though I must give credit to the casting director or whoever found the Jorge character If you're like me, you probably won't. I watched it because I was visiting my father, otherwise it would never have been on my screen. And I can safely say having seen it I wouldn't have been missing out. But when the ethnic people are Jews, then it really gets crazy.
The Byrneses are very laid back, to say the least, and after a little while with the very open Fockers, Jack Robert DeNiro once again starts considering Greg unfit for his daughter Pam Teri Polo , especially since he and Dina Blythe Danner are trying to raise their grandson to be tough, while Bernie and Roz want to dote on him as they did Greg. Watching this movie, I had to wonder what kind of parents Bernie and Roz were to name their son like they did.
Of course, all the Focker relatives had embarrassing names. What a family! The movie is mostly an excuse to be silly, and silly it was. But the good kind of silly. I just wonder how it would be to experience the Byrnes-Focker reunion.
Either way, "Meet the Fockers" is hilarious. Even though I had no memory of the previous film, besides the obvious moments e. From director Jay Roach Austin Powers this sequel has its tiny moments of hilarity, but not enough concentration on a story. But now he has to deal with Pam's parents meeting Greg's before any wedding can take place. Greg's father Bernie Dustin Hoffman is the retired hippie lawyer, and his mother Roz Barbra Streisand is the open sex therapist.
Greg obviously wants to keep his dignity, and make the Byrnes accept them, and the fact that they will have to get along after the wedding, if there's gonna be one! As I said, there are some amusing moments, most of them coming from Hoffman and Streisand, but I don't think anyone should bother with this film, apart from seeing the couple get married of course, a disappointing comedy sequel.
Witless follow-up to "Meet the Parents" is full of slapstick chaos with poor continuity, strained gags, pets used as vulgar visual jesters, and a screaming toddler. Worse than that, the film has some of the worst writing, directing, and cinematography I've seen all year. Ben Stiller, his lipsticked-mouth always open in surprise and his eyes rimmed in black like a raccoon, makes certain his overly-pancaked face is in close-up at all available times; this must have been contagious, because the cameraman plasters the screen with everybody's mug, which wouldn't be so bad except that their confusion over the stupidity of the plot is magnified.
Jokes are flayed around desperately in the hopes of hitting a target even the end-credits joke-reel fails. Loud instead of funny, everything is underlined and then milked for a chuckle. There are terrible sequences and running jokes in this movie, jokes that are even out of character like Robert De Niro and the strap-on breast.
It doesn't work. As for that bawling infant, who also gets his fair share of close-ups: he learns to talk dirty, which really cracked up the audience I saw "Meet the Fockers" with. I was determined to not like this sequel, but I found it much fun, with so many screen legends. TxMike 22 November Having been a movie-goer for over 50 years now, it was impossible for me to separate the actors from their characters in "Meet The Fockers.
We have De Niro, Hoffman, and Streisand and to a lesser extent Danner , entertainment and screen legends, playing these funny, stupid characters. How far they have come, from the days when they likely would only have played serious parts. As all of us get older, and we fully realize that we no loner have to prove ourselves, it gets to be fun again, like it was when we were children. Watching these veteran actors be silly was as fun for me as was the actual story.
While the first movie focused on Greg's attempt to get Pam's parents to accept him, this sequel focuses on the first time the four parents get together. The setting is Focker Island in southern Florida. One of the funny sidelines is the year-old son of the former maid. The boy looks just like a younger Greg Focker. Is this his son, conceived when Greg was only a teenager, messing around with the maid?
All in all a silly movie, but a very enjoyable one. Be ready to bust a rib and laugh your ass off. Wacky event endured. Retired FBI meets sex therapist and sun and fun lover. Crude and sexual humor abound. Polo and Danner have hardly anything do Stiller remains to be the odd duck so-to-speak.
This funny movie may just be better than the first. Hoffman and Streisand definitely bring a new dimension to the mix. My favorite scene is Streisand trying to get a kink out of De Niro's back. Situations are knee slapping. This one is worth seeing again. After Greg Focker gains acceptance from the Byrnes family in the first film,"Meet The Parents",he is now fully confident that everything will be good.
Unfortunately,things turn out to be not as good in the sequel and the Byrnes and the Greg's parents get together in the sequel "Meet The Fockers". Jay Roach once again directs the film. Jack and Dina Byrnes are looking forward to meeting his parents after finally accepting Greg as a future son-in- law. Both families are mismatched due to cultural difference as well as having different perspective in life. As tension increases,both Greg and Pam try their best to put their families at peace and at ease with each before things become chaotic and hopeless into bringing their respective parents together.
While it maybe never be as good as the original,the sequel is good enough to be entertaining as we get to see great actors and actresses together in film such as DeNiro,Streisand and Hoffman in one film. All legends bring forth great enthusiasm and provides great comedy that will elicit lots of laughter from the viewers. Despite of seemingly repeated gags and jokes from the first film,the great talent involved raised the level of the film to make it funny as they make their roles to be likable characters.
Overall,it was still worth watching especially for those who enjoyed the first film immensely. I didn't think it was possible but this film is worse than the original. I have no idea why a sequel was made. It's the same horrible set up from the original film but all over again mixed with even more horrible sex references and lewd comments from all involved. This is NOT family entertainment - it is smut and that isn't cool. It shows family life in the worst possible light in order to get a cheap laugh.
When the MPAA objected to the title, by the way, the filmmakers produced several real people who said they were Fockers, and proud of it. In the original, Pam took Greg home to meet her parents, Jack and Dina Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner , and you will recall that Greg was a threat to Jack's beloved cat, human ashes made an inappropriate appearance, a septic tank overflowed, and Jack the ex-CIA man gave Greg a lie detector test.
Roz is a successful sex therapist, author of books such as Meet Your Orgasm! Bernie was a lawyer until he took paternity leave to raise Greg and never went back to work. The Fockers had only the one child, Jack discovers. And with a memory so long that I hope audiences can also recall the funniest moment in the first movie, he accuses Greg: "I thought you had a sister.
You said you milked your sister's cat. Hoffman and Streisand are such positive thinkers, so quick to hug and approve and embrace and meet their orgasms that it's amazing they produced such an uptight child as Greg.
The household is so open-minded, there's a breeze. Consider, for example, Roz Focker's collection of erotic wood carvings of small ethnic people sporting enormous phalli. Jack scowls at such displays, and doesn't want to take his shirt off when Roz offers him a massage. The massage scene, sad to say, doesn't really pay off. Its only point is that Roz works him over so thoroughly that he's stiff and sore afterward. There must have been some comic way, I think, for Jack to meet his orgasm, or at least give it a friendly wave.
There is a tradition at dinners in these families that something unappetizing makes its appearance at the table, but Greg's childhood souvenir is so very unappetizing that, I dunno, I cringed instead of laughing. To the cat of the first movie we now add the Focker's sex-mad dog which, like a curious number of dogs, has a pants-leg fetish, proving Darwin was right because dogs have existed so much longer than pants.
The funniest Fockers, however, now I'm doing it are Greg's parents Bernie and Roz, a loose and liberal Florida hippy couple still living in the last century and enjoying every minute of it. Dustin Hoffman, as Bernie displays a previously unrevealed talent for over the top comedy.
Bernie is a yesteryear lawyer who has not practiced since who knows when. Roz is the main breadwinner from her business as a sex therapist to the elderly. So, go low, go loose -- or don't go at all -- but if you like Ben Stiller, go see "Meet the Fockers". Dustin's antics will crack you up and you'll enjoy Barbra back on the big screen after so long.
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