A waste of your time and their talent

Rating: 3/10 (1 January 2009)

... but then maybe you'd rather not since this is largely a mediocre movie and you may wonder why Streisand and Hoffman agreed to appear in it, even if Hoffman almost makes it worth watching. (I said almost). It's a sequel to "Meet the Parents" and someone thought it might be funny to put the work 'focker' into the title. (That's about as funny as it gets). Consequently, it's a lazy movie and a waste of the considerable talents involved. The original was no great shakes, (DeNiro is far from being a natural comic talent), but it passed the time amiably enough and had a couple of good visual gags. Here, in the absence of anything substantially original, the same jokes are basically retold but are a lot less funny the second time around. One to miss, I'm afraid.