A seen-it-before

Rating: 4/10 (2 January 2001)

Nothing new here, except that it's de Niro who plays the hard-ass father, and that, it seems, would make it enough for this film to be better than others of exactly the same kind. No, it's not. It's just a way to get to retell some old jokes and some stupid situations, and in the end it sorts itself out (and don't insult your own intelligence and call that a spoiler).
It's funny, of course. Some things are actually quite clever (I like it when he spray-paints a cat to make it look like the family cat), but there's nothing new to the basic idea. Even de Niro was a bit dull to watch. The worst part of it is that Stiller seems to be in so many of those movies...