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Summary: Come on De Niro?
Review: Why you waste the comic brilliance of Robert De Niro on such a ludicrous and unfunny comedy is beyond me. People will watch him in MEET THE PARENTS and laugh at his humor, but when it comes to seeing his good performances in GOODFELLAS and TAXI DRIVER they act like those films are no good. ANALYZE THIS is much funnier and more inventive...so watch it instead.
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Summary: Don't Meet The Parents
Review: When I sat down to watch Meet the Parents, I figured I was in for a good time. Some of my friends had seen it and told me it was hilariously funny. However, it didn't live up to my expectations.Greg Focker (Ben Stiller), an interestingly named male nurse, wants to ask his girlfriend Pam (Teri Polo) to marry him. But first, he must get the consent of her father, Jack (Robert De Niro). From the moment they meet, Jack does everything in his power to find fault in Greg, who, as the opening song says, is a nice guy and therefore a loser. Throughout the entire movie, Focker (a word which is never spoken without director Jay Roach attempting to make you laugh through repetitive and childish mishearing of the name) is the target of sarcasm and criticism whenever anyone talks to him. When Greg goes to do something, all he manages to do is abuse himself or destroy things through tedious, overdone sight gags which are never more than a string of unfortunate coincidences. This results either in more scolding and caustic remarks or an uncomfortable silence followed, of course, by more humiliation for Focker. When all is said and done, Meet the Parents utterly fails at making a good, entertaining movie. The complete dehumanization and humiliation of Greg Focker, aimed at making the audience like him through sympathy for his situation, only serves to disappoint rather than entertain. We all have bad days, but suspending disbelief for the entire one hundred eight minutes of movie is harder than making it through the longest bad day.
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Summary: Just another "ho hum" comedy
Review: Yeah, sure I laughed. So what? There's nothing particularly new or clever about this movie. Both Ben Stiller and Robert DeNiro have had better roles in better movies. Plus, I found it excruciatingly painful to sit there and watch Ben Stiller do stupid and embarrassing things again and again and AGAIN. If you're in the mood for a movie you don't have to think about, and you like watching people humiliate themselves then by all means see it. But only a mindless idiot could give this film five stars.
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Summary: Funny for the easily amused
Review: Meet the Parents is about a male nurse (Ben Stiller) who spends a weekend with his girlfriend at her parent's house. Stiller finds out immediately that his girlfriend's father (DeNiro) is quite the character. Stiller's character tries his best to impress his potential father in law but of course the harder he tries the worse things become. The film does have some funny moments especially the subtle jokes but the more obvious jokes are not so funny, just dumb and predictable. Meet the Parents is just another movie in the continuing downward spiral of DeNiro's career. When did Robert DeNiro become so lame?? If you are easily amused you will love Meet the Parents if you are not it would just remind you of old Three's Company re-runs. If you are a fan of Robert DeNiro and you want to see a comedy rent Midnight Run....that was made when DeNiro was cool.
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Summary: fine
Review: i came in the theature expecting a really funny movie. what i came out with was a semi-funny movie it seems like i heard all the jokes before...
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Summary: 108 Minutes of Boredom
Review: This movie was a total flop. For the first 70 minutes or so I felt like I was in a coma. This movie should be recommended as a cure for those with insomnia. A total bore. Don't waste your time or money on this one.
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Summary: mactheknife
Review: Alot of hype, not a great movie. The comedic aspects were so-so. De Niro is great but Stiller is painful as an out-of-step soon to be son-in-law. I'm not sure where all the hub-bub about this movie comes from. Way over-rated.
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Summary: Meet The Parents Was Great!
Review: I purchased the DVD after i had read good reviews about the theater release and the movie lived up to the expectations. The DVD extras are excellent and so was the movie. I would recommend this DVD to anyone who likes good comedy movies.
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Summary: Two stars for two scenes that where funny.
Review: That's right, there are only two scenes in this whole long boring movie that where funny. My wife and I wanted to rent a comedy and heard that Meet the Parents was a great comedy. I guess people will laugh at anything really stupid, which this movie is; very stupid and not very funny. The best scene, by far, is when Ben Stiller is on the roof trying to get the cat and what happens after that. That's it. Typical Hollywood ending too. Very disappointed. After this movie my wife and I watched Charlie's angels which (I can't believe I'm saying this) was a much funnier and more enjoyable movie. Meet the parents also dragged a lot. A lot of the scenes could have been shorter and funnier. I just don't understand what people are laughing about when they watch this movie.
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Summary: It Was OK.....
Review: I was so anxious to see this movie, and unfortunately, I was disappointed. I felt that all of the funniest scenes of the movie were shown in the trailers. Robert DeNiro was great, as was Ben Stiller, but I feel the trailers gave too much away. I would not recommend even renting this movie, wait for cable TV.
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