MEET THE FOCKERS – Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro
Meet the Fockers (2004)
Direction: Jay Roach
Screenplay: John Hamburg and James Herzfeld; from an original story by Herzfeld and Marc Hyman
Cast: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo, Owen Wilson
THE DISPLEASURE OF THEIR COMPANY
Four of the six principals in the Meet the Fockers cast — Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, and Blythe Danner — have among themselves five Academy Awards and an additional ten Oscar nominations for acting, one Tony win and six additional nominations, and numerous other acting awards and nominations from around the world.
What to do with all that honor and prestige? Throw them into the fetid garbage dumpster of a Ben Stiller flick about chopped-off foreskin, babies that say "asshole," and little dogs that get flushed down the toilet. You won’t believe it unless you see it.
In Meet the Fockers, a sequel to Meet the Parents, two disparate families, the hippie-ish Fockers (Hoffman, Streisand) and the conservative Byrneses (De Niro, Danner) meet before the wedding of their children, Greg Focker (Stiller) and Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo).
Besides being incredibly stupid, Greg is also a walking bad-luck curse. Whatever can go wrong with him, does. If that weren’t enough, the Byrnes patriarch, a constipated right-wing Republican and former CIA agent, will do whatever it takes to prevent Greg from marrying his daughter.
Papa Byrnes could have solved the matter the CIA way, but sadly no assassinations take place in the film. Stiller’s Greg is still very much alive at the end, ready for the next neuron-zapping, vomit-inducing sequel.
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Tags: Barbra Streisand, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, Dustin Hoffman, Film Reviews, Jay Roach, John Hamburg, Meet the Fockers, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo
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