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Summary: De Niro washed up
Review: A sad end for the actor who brought us so many fine performances, in serious and comedy roles (Midnight Run). Obviously it's not the bitter end, but I'd be surprised to see anything terribly good come along now. I should have been warned by the cover, and the reviews did all smack of the "I need to get out more" reviewer.
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Summary: A scream.
Review: If you aren't rolling on the floor laughing at this movie, you have no funny bone.
Rating:
Summary: Laugh Out Loud Funny
Review: There has only been one other movie I've seen in the recent past that made me laugh out loud...that was Analyze This. I couldn't believe that Robert DeNiro could be funny. Well, he is! The premise for this movie is funny to begin with...no one meets his potential in-laws with dry palms. Ben Stiller plays the poor unfortunate perfectly...everything he says and does is wrong. Maybe I'm juvenile, but his name cracked me up and every play on it as well. I've seen this movie a few times and when you watch the background action it is hysterical. He meets the Ex-boyfriend...gorgeous, blond, wealthy, athletic...decidedly opposite of Greg Fouker. Everytime he opens his mouth...the future father-in-law points out the obvious differences between the two. It is worth seeing over and over. I've got just one more thing to say ..."Jinxie...NO!"...
Rating: 
Summary: A Solid Comedy
Review: Meet the Parents, a solid comedy from director Jay Roach (Austin Powers), is a milestone in the careers of both Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller. For De Niro, it proves that his purely comedic turn in Analyze This was not a fluke. In Stiller's case, it further places him atop Hollywood's rather slim assortment of comic actors. The story has been told countless times: a all-around nice guy desperately attempts to capture the approval of his fiancee's gruff father. The plot, however, is simply an excuse to stage several sight gags and screwball antics for the actors to chew on. This leads to several hit-or-miss set pieces that mostly hit, a rarity in Hollywood these days. A lot of the credit has to go towards the film's stars, although the funniest performance comes from Owen Wilson as a born-again preppie with an unusual interest in carpentry. Many of the jokes are pretty obvious, but that doesn't detract from the film's overall appeall. A charming movie in its own right, Meet the Parents is one of the most satisfying comedies of 2000.
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Summary: If only I could give it less than one star.
Review: Pathetic. I had expected more from the general public. How can anyone find this formulaic, predictable, overly praised, boring, no brainer excuse for a comedy, entertaining? The dialogue was just inane, and over-simplified, at least I had thought it to be simple, but for others, which greatly disturbs me about the current state of the American psyche, it was 'genius'? Don't make me vomit. It was like Steve Martin's 'Father Of The Bride' only worse.
The only joke that was funny was the 'focker' thing, and that got old after the second time someone said it. They based their whole movie on the linguistic gag of 'focker' and a cat peeing. Big (...)deal. And if that wasn't depressing enough. They are releasing a sequel.
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Summary: A very funny movie with a great story!
Review: This movie was great in many aspects. For one thing, the humor was very funny. I laughed out loud for all the jokes and so did all my friends. Second, the acting was great. This movie combined two great actors: Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller. Robert De Niro is one of the best actors of all time and Ben Stiller is slowly crawling up that list but has taken the title as "Funniest man of Earth". This movie shows that he can be very funny and a powerfull actor at the same time. This movie had another great person but one who was working behind the scenes: Jay Roach. He has made numerous great movies (Austin Powers, Mystery, Alaska). He is one of the best directors out there. Lastly, the story in this movie was great. This was not one of those stupid funny movies. It had a great story behind it and was very funny at the same time. I gave this movie a 4 because it lost its value after the first few times you see it. I got bored of it. But it is still a great movie!! SEE IT!!
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: This is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen! I have watched it 7 or 8 times now, and I laugh every time. It is not anything like There's Something About Mary, which I didn't like at all (I kept waiting for something funny to happen in that one).
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Summary: A little disappointing
Review: I was expecting too much after seeing the previews.
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Summary: Comedies about strange FAMILIES are always the best!
Review: This film goes straight into my HALL OF COMEDY FAME, along with American Pie, Hollywood Zap, and Dumb and Dumber. Ben Stiller is undoubtedly one of the best young comedians in America today. He is America's favorite nerd, so if you love nerds, then this film is a must-see.
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Summary: Meet the Payments
Review: Shoot me if I ever go near a boat again said a famous legend. Well it's the case here if you ask me to see another comedy starring my favorite movie actor. Where as the equally brilliant Redgrave didn't mean it,I do.The Turkeys are early for Christmas this year. These are the type of commercial movies that pay the rent on De`niros plush Tri Becca film studios venture in Manhattan, especially now that The WTC has just fallen in his back yard. Hard to think this is the legend from many of the eighties and nineties best contemporary movies. The parody of his best character roles in Analyze This worked well and picked up some rightful laughs on the back of The Soprano's.
That was a welcome boost for Bobbie's comic talents where as this is a major set back. He could only take roles like this if he was looking for quick bucks rather than acting accolades in drab stuff like this. There are few laughs as the film relies on visual gags that drown out any irony. Lots of Parenthood style jokes but no brilliant comic genius of Steve Martin to save the picture. This has to be the worst casting of an actor since Rowan Atkinson in Four Weddings.
It's excruciatingly painful at times as you watch one of Americas best actors dawdle his way through such an irrelevant role. Any one could have player the picky father who wants the best for his daughter. The gist is that Gaylord Foeker (ha ha that's funny) a male nurse played by Ben stiller "meets the parents"of his beloved at a family wedding.
He plans also to pop the question but doesn't count on her over protective ex CIA father and line of interrogation. Little does he know the true vocation of Jack (De`niro) who he thinks is a hybrid agriculturist.
This puts the gauche Stiller into a mumbling bumbling new man wreck with the inevitable slap stick chaos. But this is the premise for the whole film, which can only appeal to a happy ten-year-olds. The cast spends a lot of time at the dinner table and uncomfortable mingling and manners. Yet the writers didn't inject any intelligent humor here but the obvious and dull gags.
As America's biggest grossing comedy you are waiting with bated breath for the gags. Its American humor at its most tamest and dallied between Tom Hanks The Money Pit and those sassy wholesome family comedies by John Hughes. At one point you just want the bullied Stiller to give Jack a mouthful as he persecutes the hapless weed into the ground. His schmaltzy wife Beth played by Teri Polo,ha!now that's funny is almost begging for a funny line.
It's just the sentimental pap to get America back on its feet after the terror attacks with an equally yucky Hollywood ending. American Airlines who were at the center of the New York attacks come out really bad as far as product placement goes.
They are constantly hammered through out over lost luggage and poor service. I'm sure their lawyers let this one slip through. At one point Stiller is thrown of for waving a suspected bomb around. Shows how much sympathy Blockbusters UK thinks of their American head office. Theres no comedy chemistry at all between De`niro and Stiller with the rest of the cast gagless and bored. Stiller plays the same role as he does in every film as the wide-eyed innocent nice guy.
I'm surprised Spielbergs Dreamworks studios picked up this bland so called comedy. It really is dull and lingering in the Goldie Hawn bargain bucket. America no longer makes funny films as they steer away from the brilliant Blazing Saddles and Airplane to the tedious family and teen college dross. The eighties were the only time you could get away with Road Trip in my more advanced comedy opinion.
Dude, who stole the joke!.
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