Watchable and often funny...and often cringe-worthy and amazingly low-brow.

Rating: 5/10 (20 May 2011)

This is the sort of movie it's best to watch exactly the way I watched it. I did NOT see it in theaters, on DVD or through Netflix but on TV...during an evening where I was frankly too sick to see what else is on the tube. Now this isn't saying it's a bad film--it just isn't something I'd rush out to watch...unless I was on crack!
"Meet the Fockers" picks up after the previous film "Meet the Parents". In this installment of the series, Greg and his fiancé have somehow agreed to accompany her parents to meet his in Miami. The dad (Robert De Niro) is his usual very uptight and over-controlling self and mostly everyone in the family stands back and watches him run roughshod over everyone--until they meet Ben Stiller's parents. Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand are nearly the complete opposites of their counterparts. Instead of being uptight, they are very, very open...TOO OPEN. And this brings some of most embarrassing and often tacky moments of the film--moments that make you want to turn off the film. But, as I was sick, I left it. And, overall, I wasn't that dissatisfied. No, it's not really good--but it's a time-killer and at least made me forget some of my pain....and experience all new forms of pain! Generally watchable but stupid.