A fair movie, but a disappointment none the less

Rating: 5/10 (26 December 2004)

The critics absolutely ripped this movie apart in the papers by me (The Philadelphia Inquirer) They gave it one and a half stars out of four which I felt was a little bit to harsh. If I was rating it on the common 4 star rating system, it would get a flat two out of four stars. Some scenes were funny, for example when Gaylord (Ben Stiller) is left alone with his soon to be nephew, who is an infant. As an overall I compare this movie to "American Wedding". Just a bunch of jokes and gags that were trying to be duplicated from the first movie. Robert Deniro's character just comes off as down right mean and mental rather than humorous. You will laugh at the movie if you enjoyed the first one but it does not compare.