Ridiculously over the top

Rating: 3/10 (31 December 2007)

Ridiculously over the top characters ruined this. The first film was OK, and while the acting talent & occasional laugh (in the looser sense - more a snigger) saved this film from being a complete disaster it was still pretty awful.
The Hoffman & Striesand characters were pathetic, they seemed to be scribbled together at the last moment & made up as the film went along & were inconsistent. It was as if, they had to come up with as diverse as possible characters to the opposite parents, but they never came across as that, just two idiots.
The child was especially irritating & never likable, the animals seemed only there for some childish gags, the scene with the truth drug was absurd and cringeworthy, only DeNiro's character had any substance and thought behind it, and while very good - even he was over the top.
I never grasped why he had so much influence over the grandson, where the parents were & whether their schooling methods on their son were identical. While it was merely for a laugh in a comedy film, the methods at times seemed more suited to the Fockers.
The rest of it was cheap knob & sex gags which were more cringing than funny, which summed up most of the film. 3/10.