The One-Trick Pony That Would Not Die.

Rating: Null/10 (13 January 2005)

"Meet the Fockers" is easy to critique. Just go back and watch "Meet the Parents", change the location, add two Hollywood legends doing perhaps the worst work of their careers and you have this smelly mess of a movie. The standard crew from the first installment (the engaged Ben Stiller and Teri Polo and Polo's parents Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner) take to the road in a massively large recreational vehicle to meet Stiller's parents (Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand). The typical problems then take place as the friction we felt in the original between Stiller and De Niro is compounded by the friction between De Niro and Stiller's parents. "Meet the Fockers" is too long and dumb to be endearing. The routine of the first installment became tiring long before this stinker was ever dreamed up. 2.5 out of 5 stars.