Meet the Disappointment

Rating: 5/10 (29 December 2004)

I thoroughly enjoyed "Meet the Parents" and Dustin Hoffman is one of my favorite actors. So, I was looking forward to "Meet the Fockers". I really wanted to like it, but I have to say I was disappointed. There was more subtly to "Meet the Parents". For me, what made the original so great was the subtle awkwardness between Stiller and DeNiro.(i.e. "That was beautiful, so much love and yet also so much...information." I think Dusty and Streisand were too over the top, and the humor was a little broad and crude for my taste. A circumcised penis foreskin landing in food doesn't really do it for me. Nor did Streisand riding DeNiro "like Seabiscuit." I enjoyed the parts with DeNiro and Stiller interacting with the kid, though its inexplicable that his parents would be gone, and not even show up for the wedding. There are some laughs, more if you're high, but it could have been a lot better. 5/10