Horrible trash

Rating: 1/10 (22 December 2004)

I enjoyed Meet the Parents but I couldn't wait for this one to end. The characters changed (for better or worse) because of the addition of the new characters and the new dynamics. The sexual obsessions of the Fokker parents could have been funny but instead they seemed to be the only components of the characters, becoming predictable and boring. Ben Stiller went from the lying nebbish to a pathetic loser (well many of his parts are) who tries to please everyone but the pathos made it unfunny. DeNiro goes from a humorously funny paranoiac to a really nasty, cruel SOB. Example: *SPOILER* The humiliation of the young boy at the wedding served no purpose and was never resolved. I noticed there was an Obstetrics adviser. They should also be advised that Sodium Pentothal cannot make people say what they don't want to, it just lowers the level of suggestion and use of it requires questions to be asked not a free-lance speech such as Stiller gave. It also has to be given IV and can't just be jabbed into someone's neck. Fokker peres could have been more appealing by showing other aspects of their freedom other than sex alone. (although their pride in their mediocre son was a bit touching). For a comedy, the movie produced a lot of uncomfortableness in me, mostly based on the sadism and the terrible situations people were placed in. The resolutions of all the problems were shallow ("Oh, all right, I forgive you"). Stick with the original.