Nothing special

Rating: 5/10 (30 December 2004)

Without Barbara Streisand and Dustin Hoffmann playing the Fockers, this movie would be horrible. I say that because the other characters just don't hold provide anything fresh, including Gaylord Focker. It's a nice story with some funny surprises but there is nothing timeless like Jinxy cat urinating on Jack's mothers ashes scene or the airplane/luggage scenes from Meet the Parents. I laughed a few times but not near as much or as loud as I did for Meet the Parents.
We meet a couple characters from Greg's past but beyond his parents there are no other Fockers shown in the movie which was a big disappointment. I wanted to see the polar opposites of Pam's family and his old friends, like the way Greg got to meet Pam's old boyfriend Kevin and the doctor friends of the Byrnes who ripped on Greg for being a male nurse. I think that they had a good idea for this movie but it didn't really meet its potential. Meet the Fockers is not really worth seeing at a theater, wait until rental.