Basically the first movie warmed over

Rating: 6/10 (12 January 2005)

I wasn't a big fan of "Meet the Parents," because it's basically Ben Stiller going through one agonizing situation after another, then at the end everyone understands everyone, blah blah.
You're pretty much getting the same thing with "Meet the Fockers." All the performances were entertaining, and everyone played their roles very well. Streisand and Hoffman were given large characters to play, but didn't chew up the scenery, and that's better than I'd expected.
Still, you've seen this movie before, but there are plenty of laughs if you enjoyed the first one, and I would recommend it for those people.
The only other real negative I would toss in is that the use of Yiddish/Hebrew was superfluous. Rather than it just popping up as the result of normal situations, it was painfully overused in the context it was presented in.