Meet the Fockers Review
by Jon Popick (jpopick AT sick-boy DOT com)December 20th, 2004
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Meet the Fockers is about would you should expect from a sequel: More of the same jokes, and little else. Like gags about Greg Focker (Ben Stiller, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) being a nurse? You'll be in hog heaven. Think there's nothing funnier than the not-so-nice teasing of the Focker moniker? Line up, you cretins because there's plenty to go around. More than two hours worth of it. Ugh.
This time around, we get to see the planning of impending nuptials between Greg and Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo, Beyond Borders). Enter Greg's parents - two wacky, free-spirited Jews (Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman) who offer every single imaginable comedic juxtaposition to the uptight Byrnes' clan (Robert DeNiro and Blythe Danner). And when I saw "comedic," I don't really mean funny unless you're a big fan of bad television sitcoms and/or bad stereotypes of Jewish behavior. Look out - I might plotz over here.
In addition to featuring three of the most frightening noses in the business (Streisand, Hoffman and Owen Wilson, who briefly reprises his role of WASP high commander Kevin Rawley), Fockers also has.well, that's about it. Merry Christmas, wankers!
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