A funny movie, some of the time.

Rating: Null/10 (3 April 2001)

This movie has wide appeal to everyone from children to the elderly. But from the start I thought it was trying too hard and ended up like Ben Stiller's character in the flick, just embarrassing itself. There are a lot of funny moments in the movie, many of them seen in the trailor mind you, but there are a lot of moments when it's just taking things past the point of funny. It has a slow start, a friend 20 minutes into the film asked me, "when does it get funny" It does get funny eventually but has a few dynamite moments with a lot of filler. Robert DeNiro is excellent in anything I've seen him in and as the overbearing father/former FBI spy he's perfect, Ben Stiller who I think is not funny, isn't that bad, but then he's not great, and not even that funny except when the script writes it out for him. Overall I'd say this film is worth a few laughs but not a solid 100 minutes of comedy. A few standout scenes are the airport and the dinner scene, if they could carry that out through the whole movie it'd be a 10.