Rent "The In-laws" instead

Rating: 6/10 (14 July 2002)

Some funny parts--better after the beginning--but vastly inferior to the movie it ripped off--1980's "The In-Laws." The "In-Laws", starring Peter Falk ("Columbo") and Alan Arkin, may be the funniest movie of all time. I am not some old codger who saw "The In-Laws" in a theatre and is waxing about old times. I am thirty, meaning I was eight when "The In-Laws" came out. I saw it for the first time on cable. But I know greatness when I see it, wherever I see it. "Meet The Parents" aint great. "The In-Laws" is. It will make you laugh as much or more than practically any movie you have ever seen. See that, not this. (In case you haven't figured it out, the plots of the two movies are very similar.)