Just as funny as I expected it to be

Rating: 9/10 (11 December 2003)

I am a huge Robert DeNiro fan, so I knew I just had to see this, I had heard so much about this movie and how funny it was. So I watched it the other day and I have to admit that this was so much fun to watch. I admit that it had it's predictable moments, but over all, I think the jokes worked very well and the cast was just so wonderful to watch. Robert and Ben click very well, they were so great in making the scenes just so intense, like that first dinner they have together, Ben describing how he grew up on the farm and had to milk a cat in order to save a runt kitten, was just so funny because we've all been there where we got caught up in a lie trying to figure a way out of it. The story is very funny and something everyone has to go through in their time of meeting the parents.
Greg is a nurse who is about to purpose to his girlfriend, Pam, but when she tells him first of how her sister got proposed to and how her fiancée asked her father first, Greg feels obligated to ask him first before asking Pam. They go to meet her parents, Jack and Dina. Jack is a former CIA agent who is not ready to let his baby go to Greg. He's gonna make sure that this is a trip that Greg will never forget and is gonna torment him the whole way.
The only problem I have is that it seems like all the good parts that my friends told me about, well, that was it. So it wasn't as surprising, but I still admit that I laughed. I loved that scene where they're playing volleyball with Pam's ex and how the team just won't give Greg a break how how he's playing and then he... well, you'll have to trust me, it gets better. Meet the Parents is a fun comedy that I'm sure will have you laughing. Robert and Ben are terrific together, I hope they do another comedy soon.
9/10