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Meet The Fockers
2004
Following the knee-slapping hit MEET THE PARENTS, director Jay Roach once again keeps audiences roaring with laughter as he presents MEET THE FOCKERS. This time, young engaged couple Pam (Teri Polo) and Greg (Ben Stiller) are getting their parents together a few months before the wedding. Greg nervously plans out every detail .. Read more
| Starring | Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand |
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| Director | Jay Roach |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Meet The Fockers
Following the knee-slapping hit MEET THE PARENTS, director Jay Roach once again keeps audiences roaring with laughter as he presents MEET THE FOCKERS. This time, young engaged couple Pam (Teri Polo) and Greg (Ben Stiller) are getting their parents together a few months before the wedding. Greg nervously plans out every detail of the trip, only to be usurped by Pam's domineering ex-CIA-man father (Robert DeNiro). Not only has he purchased an RV, insisting they'll be driving from New York City to the Fockers' home in Miami, but he's bringing along his perfect baby grandson. When they finally arrive at the Fockers' house, Greg's parents, Bernie and Roz (Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand), turn out to be sex-addicted hippies and not at all what the Byrnes (DeNiro and Blythe Danner) had expected. With one pitfall after the next, the film takes the concept of awkward in-law experiences to new heights, leaving no stone unturned from stories about past sexual experiences to detailed discussion of current ones. What's worse, the Fockers are teaching the baby curse words weaning him on rum, to the shock of his overprotective grandparents. Every conversation is totally inappropriate and downright embarrassing, keeping audiences braced for the next disaster. Along the way, all six cast members turn in topnotch performances, with Hoffman, Streisand, and Stiller leading the charge in true Focker spirit.
| Starring | Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo |
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| Director | Jay Roach |
| Studio | DREAMWORKS HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 53 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Dubbed | Hungarian |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Hungarian |
| Released | DVD: 16 May 2005 Production year: 2004 |
| Format | DVD |
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The job of a commercially driven sequel is to give the audience more of what they liked the first time around — in this case, Robert De Niro's anal ex-CIA man sparring with accident-prone, soon-to-be son-in-law Ben Stiller, as they did with great success in Meet the Parents. There's plenty of that here, as De Niro's family travel to Florida to meet Stiller's mother and father. It is testament to the cracking performances of Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand as Stiller's parents that they steal the film from De Niro, who's left to repeat his schtick from the previous movie. In their roles as earth mother sex therapist and hippy househusband, Streisand and Hoffman are utterly credible, while playing everything for the broadest of laughs. The least successful parts of the film are those that depend on our knowledge of the original — such as the cameo from Owen Wilson — or that simply reuse the same jokes (if you've heard one gag based on the word “Focker”, then you've heard 'em all). But, this is still an enjoyable romp with a top-drawer cast in fine fettle, particularly Streisand in her first film for eight years.
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A sequel to Meet the Parents in which the amusement is provided by the performances rather than a succession of unfunny situations and endless toilet jokes.
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49 out of 76 people found this review helpful
Fock me it's not that bad!!!
The sequel to Meet the Parents would always have a lot of work to do - in fact, I couldn't believe when I heard they were making a second movie; we'd seen the first movie fifty times, but still, when something's wrapped up nicely it's a very English thing to see it go out that way - with pride (Faulty towers; The Office; etc). Not the American way at all; if the lemon had juice last time - then it will have juice this time, right? Thankfully this time it does. Somehow they pulled the rabbit out of their ass twice. This movie is not only funny, but funny in an original way - helped by the introduction of two new characters, Ben Stiller's onscreen parents, played brilliantly by Barbra Steisand and Dustin Hoffman steal the show. Their playful, unmindful, sexual attraction and their honesty about themselves (and everybody else), throws their son Stiller (who is still trying to impress Deniro) into the bouts of nervousness. His clumsily attempts at concealing their antics, and their true employment (sex therapist / house dad) are fun to watch. If not as outright hilarious as the first movie, it's funnier than most the comedies out there. Now lets all take a moment - and pray they don't add another sequel, 'Meet the Grand Fockers'.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Focker Hell
Not bad for a laugh, acting was good, humour well you have to be into it to like it, but it makes you laugh and passes the time, I would not give up much to watch it.
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Streisand built basement with Meet The Fockers set
- 05 Oct 2009
Barbra Streisand refused to allow Meet The Fockers producers to cast away the set's doors - she used the pieces to construct a street in her basement. The veteran entertainer has spent the last five and a half years refurbishing and building her home, a colonial farmhouse, and documenting the renovation process for a new book. One of the most interesting features within the property is her basement, which she designed as a row of shops using doors she took home from the set of the 2004 comedy. Read more
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