Meet friends instead of the Fockers

Rating: 1/10 (8 December 2006)

I hadn't seen the first part of the movie but I'm sure this would not have improved the film a bit. I watched the film on DVD at home while eating something. I didn't expect much of the film but it was even worse than I had expected. For the first half hour or so I kept waiting for the film to start and wondered why the scenes seemed so loooong. Later I found out that it's because all of the film is long and boring. I didn't even laugh once. Although I have to admit that I don't like this type of "it can't get any more embarrassing"-humour. Brits are good at this kind of humour but Americans just aren't. The problem is Ben Stiller's parents (Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman) are depicted as crazy freaks. So their exaggerated behaviour is just a logical consequence and not funny. In a British film the parents would have been normal and then the fun would have come from their behaving in a freaky way. I just wonder who or what made quality actors like Robert de Niro, Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman sign for this film. Robert de Niro is even co-producer. The script is lame, the jokes are bad and simply embarrassing without being funny. My husband fell asleep, I fast forwarded the DVD and was glad I didn't waste any money on the cinema ticket.