Lacks originality

Rating: 5/10 (27 December 2004)

Meet the Fockers is an average comedy. There are a few laughs, the new characters work quite well, I found Dustin Hoffman to be particularly funny; but the movie lacks the edge of the original. The movie had all the cringe worthy moments of the first film but three years on they don't have the same effect. The writers have recognised that the film required a new angle but rather than taking a clever witty tact they have gone for lowest common denominator humour, which I think cheapens the film. The concept was itself an obvious follow on from the first movie. Essentially this move is more of the same but the same just isn't as funny the second time around. I hope for the sake of the original that they don't make "meet the little focker".