Meet the Parents

Rating:
Summary: Great movie.
Review: This movie is funny, romantic and very suspenseful, but...something is missing. I think what's missing is a different performance by Stiller. In this movie you are able to see Stiller's stereotype performance. Anyway, the best performance for me is De Niro's. He is one of my favorite actors of all time. I can't wait in watching "Meet The Fockers" !!!!!!

Rating:
Summary: Meet Your Worst Nightmare
Review: The success of "Meet the Parents" lies in it's basic premise that every guy's basic fear is meeting his sweetheart's parents. The film takes this conceit to the next level by having your potential father-in-law be a profiler for the CIA. The film contains alot of amusing setpieces and slapstick. Ultimately the heart of the film is the comic chemistry between stars Ben Stiller and Robert DeNiro. Stiller is one of the great comic forces working in films today and DeNiro, late in his career, is developing into a deft comedian. Owen Wilson, as Stiller's fiance's former boyfriend, delivers an amusing cameo here.

Rating:
Summary: No redeeming quality...
Review: When I saw this movie the first time, I saw no humor. However, I was subjected to this film four more times that week, due to some unusual circumstances, and it was only then did I truly come to despise it.

The story is Ben Stiller meets girl. They fall in love, and then Stiller has to meet her parents. The humor is reliant on the fact that people find it humorous that the hopeful husband-to-be always gets everything wrong. However, it's just not funny. DeNiro, although playing an interesting new character as father of the bride, does not add to this, already mess of a film.

Stiller can be funny, but bathroom humor and slapstick can only go so far. If that's you're thing, then you'll like it, otherwise just stay away.

(The only good thing is that the sequel is ok, but that's a different review.)

Rating:
Summary: A good comedy!
Review: Meet the Parents is another film up Robert DeNiro's comedy sleeve and was alot more successful for him than his previous comedy film `Analyse This' alongside Billy Crystal. In Meet The Parents he shows some great timing and talent and has a lot of help from co-star and comedian, Ben Stiller (There's something about Mary, Zoolander). Ben plays Greg Gaylord Focker, a male nurse in a traditionally female profession. About to propose to Pam (Teri Polo) his girlfriend he overhears Pam talking to her sister who has gotten recently engaged and he soon learns that to ask her hand in marriage he must do it the traditional way and ask her father's permission first. What follows is an outrageous weekend in the country at Pam's parents house where Greg meets Pam's father and ex-CIA agent Jack (DeNiro) for the first time and Greg manages to get himself into some harrowing and hilarious situations involving human ashes, septic tanks, pool volleyball and Jack's most favoured possession, his beloved cat.

Both Stiller and DeNiro have shown they both possess amazing comedic ability and Meet The Parents is an undemanding, agreeable comedy and it was one of the biggest hits in Hollywood in 2000.


Rating:
Summary: Just as funny as Meet The Fockers
Review: Non stop laughs I saw it when it first came out in the movies in 2000 four years before I started working at the movies of course. And wow it was funny, funny, funny, funny, etc, and did I say it was FUNNY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Teri Polo is hot. I cant really say anything about it only thats its funny. If You havent seen it go see it and then go to the movies and see Meet The Fockers.


Rating:
Summary: The parents are not worth meeting
Review: It was supposed to be so funny. An hour into it, I was still waiting to laugh. The plot was predictable. The characters were made of the cheapest cardboard. I wound up thinking, "none of these people are worth what Stiller's character is going through." Least of all, the complete whelp of a fiancee who was dishonest, weak-willed and insensitive. The funny moments can all be viewed in the trailer. Beyond that, it's just difficult to watch.

I really like Ben Stiller and I love Blythe Danner. But DeNiro should be totally ashamed. Totally ashamed.

Rating:
Summary: ~Be Aware~
Review: If you have a weak stomach muscle, do not buy this movie, because this movie will make you laugh so hard that you will sure be suffocating.