I've never felt so dirty

Rating: 1/10 (14 January 2006)

Remember at school when you used to get beaten up, get your head flushed down the toilet, get pushed into doggie doo, have the bully wipe boogies on you and then spit on you? If you do, I'm really sorry for you. I can't imagine what that was like...actually I can, because I spent $14 to see "Meet The Fockers".
I LOVED meet "Meet The Parents". Loved it. Own it. When you put 3 of my favourite actors into a comedy, I'm bound to be pleased...unless it's in a shameless sequel. "Meet The Fockers" takes us to meet Greg's parents, played by Dustin Hoffman and Barabar Streisand. Don't get me wrong they're great actors, I loved "Rainman" and ....actually can't think of any Streisand movie I've seen but I hear she was massive in the 70's. Their characters are terrible though- two sex crazed lunatic extroverts. Greg obviously knows they won't get on great with Pam's folks..and he's proved right. While they are there, there are of course lots of unbelievable accidents and events, each more over the top than the last (and less funny than anything in the first, except maybe when Greg babysits).
I didn't laugh during the movie at all. Maybe smiled twice. Maybe it was funnier than I thought but I just felt so ripped off and dirty I was slightly tainted. It was clear the producers thought "Man I can't believe how much people liked Meet The Parents. Let's do it again, add a couple of characters played by big stars to rope in some more people and sack all the writers except the guy who wrote that bit where Greg smokes on the roof and sets the house on fire. He gets promoted and gets to write the whole thing."