DeNiro and Stiller in grand style

Rating: Null/10 (6 October 2000)

Take a cute, fluffy romance and make nuclear winter of it with plenty of broad comedy from both DeNiro and Stiller working together like Abbott and Costello. That's the best way to sum up this film.
The plot is a delicious mixture of FATHER OF THE BRIDE and THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY with a big dose of the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers. Some of the props include a trained cat, an ash urn, and a lie detector.
This movie is funny -- not just in the style of other modern comedies, but in the great tradition of screwball comedies like IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT and BRINGING UP BABY. It's hard to tell who steals more scenes -- DeNiro doing all his classic schtick or Stiller with his straight-faced lunacy. MEET THE PARENTS is, quite simply, a gem. Since laughter is good therapy, this is a dumptruck-full of sugar to make the medicine go down. See it!