Has Weak Points but Is Overall Fun

Rating: 7/10 (9 July 2006)

This does not even come close to being as funny as the first movie, however it still made me laugh. Hunky and Geeky Ben Stiller and Stern Overprotective Robert DeNiro are what really make the movie work. But of course the best performance of the movie came from "Little Jack!" What brings the movie downhill is the overdone outrageousness of Hoffman and Streisand. Sure we expect them to be much more liberal than DeNiro's family. However they are almost a little too crazy, and were actually quite irritating! Streisand is without question the most irritating person in the entire movie. There is a scene were she gives DeNiro a message and basically climbs on top of them. I'm sorry but I've never seen a message therapist like THAT before, this scene was pretty stupid, even for a comedy. Blythe Danner and a majority of the other characters are basically just their for the sake of being their. Danner was much funnier in the first movie. Over all it's okay, however there are certain performances which make the movie work, as well as performances that don't make the movie work.