I wish I hadn't met them

Rating: 5/10 (25 December 2004)

I really looked forward to this movie because I loved Meet the Parents and I thought that this cast couldn't go wrong. Well, it could! In my opinion, this movie plays on humor that is perpetually situated below the belt. There were very few laughs from the audience I was with and quite a few questions from the child in the seat behind me(phew...am I glad I wasn't the one having to explain what was going on!) To say this movie is crude is understating the fact and some of the conversation even made me cringe. The fact that Barbara Streisand looked the same as she did in the 60's with the same curly wig and bell-bottoms, I found rather distracting but not nearly as cringe-worthy as the intensely inappropriate questions she asks her son, despite the fact she's supposed to be a trained therapist.
I really can't believe that this cast thought their lines were funny. It was like having Dustin Hoffman and Robert de Niro delivering garbage. A complete waste of their brilliant talent. And the same goes for Ben Stiller. The baby was funny the first time...OK ...maybe the second. By the 6th, I wanted it to disappear for ever.
Very disappointing. I cannot give it more than a 5.