OTT: more = less

Rating: Null/10 (29 January 2001)

The premise was so promising - diffident Jewish male nurse meets his
girl friend's WASP family and has a disastrous weekend. Ben Stiller
excels as Greg/ Gaylord, and De Niro is formidable as Jack, the future
father-in-law, but his character doesn't add up: mother- / cat-loving /
daughter-fixated psychological profiler for the CIA who seems far more
out-of-place in his neighbourhood than Greg? There are funny scenes,
like Greg's attempt at saying grace and his accidentally smashing his
girl-friend's sister in the face with a ball, but everything is
ludicrously overdone till the sentimental (the curse of Hollywood)
rapprochemont between Jack & Greg made me cr