Laugh-a-Leap-Year Comedy

Rating: 2/10 (5 November 2005)

Terrible and unfunny follow-up to very funny Meet the Parents. Roach is a talented director and Stiller is usually always funny. I have no idea what was being attempted here but whatever it was, it failed miserably. Hoffman and Streisand sounds like it should have worked but didn't. Roach simply permitted these two 'stars' to run wild and without any directorial guidance, they resorted to boring Jewish parent stereotypes. With Dustin and Babs trying to 'out-Jew' one another and Stiller and DeNiro given little to do except mug for the camera, the whole thing ends up one big bore. Also, leave politics out of it. Do the ham-fisted cretins who run Hollywood think all of its audience members are such dullards that we don't noticed the ideologies being pushed or being delivered? Okay! Okay!! I get it!!! Peace-loving, pot-smoking hippies who protested in the 1960s good; government and intelligence community personnel bad! Yeah, thanks for the newsflash, Tonto. Jezus! All the subtlety of being reamed by an elephant. I only hope the third film is better.