Juvenille humor at its best (worst)

Rating: 8/10 (4 December 2005)

Hackman, Hoffman, Streisand, and Danner are delightfully dysfunctional in this sequel that works. Add in poop jokes, and breast obsessed baby, and lots of little side events I swear they stole from my family reunion's videotape and this movie will make anybody who does not take life too seriously laugh. You almost have to feel sorry for Gay Focker (Stiller). I do not recommend watching the extended versions an some of the DVD's it is too choppy and disruptive, be patient and watch them separately as deleted scenes. Complaint - as with most sequels it relied too much on content from the first movie for some of the basic laughs, but there was enough original material to overcome that minor annoyance. Otherwise if you like the first, I definitely recommend watching the second one to help finish the all-American portrait of its dysfunctional families.