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Summary: What Every Groom To Be Dreads.
Review: MEET THE PARENTS may not be the best comedy of 2000, but it comes pretty close. Granted that many of the laughs can be seen setting up a mile before they arrive. Still, that doesn't make them any less funny. Ben Stiller is a great comic actor and has the poor schmuck routine down perfectly. However, Stiller doesn't steal the show here. He shares center stage with Robert DeNiro. DeNiro isn't known for his comic abilities, but if he can make a few more great comedies like this, he may become known as a great comic genius.Other than a few swear words and a little sexual innuendo, the movie remains closer to a PG family flick of the PG-13 rating, rather than the more racier, near R-rating side of the 13. It's a film that families with children older than 10 can enjoy together. The movie reminded me of and is closer in style to older comedies that stars such as Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, and Dick Van Dyke used to make; rather than the typical gross-out picture fests that is so typical nowadays. The movie succeeds because it's premise is derived from the very real fears of life. What groom to be doesn't fear meeting his father-in law for the first time? Then when finally meeting him find out that the man not only doesn't like you, but is an ex-CIA agent who is watching every move you make with secretly placed video cameras and is so stubborn that he can't see beyond his own selfish pride how much his daughter is in love. It's the worst fear of every man who's every asked for his father-in-law's blessing. And it just happens to make for a wonderful comedy.
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Summary: This movie sucked!!!
Review: Of course only a few funny moments were advertised when the movie first came out, but I hated this film. I knew what was going to happen even before it finished. In short, unless you want to waste your money, don't bother with this pathetic attempt of a comedy.
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Summary: Forget the negative reviews..
Review: This movie was one of the most funniest movies that I had ever seen! Robert DiNero does have a hidden talent..comedy. I couldn't get enough of the Stiller and DiNero duo in this flick. Forget about those negative reviews! This movie was hilarious!
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Summary: One of my least favorite movies of all time.
Review: I know a lot of people thought this was a lighthearted romp, but watching it made me so upset and angry I was had trouble getting to sleep for days afterwards. When I see Ben Stiller sell himself short in such a cliched, self-hating-jew stereotype, it makes me cringe, but that's not the real reason I disliked the movie (and the entire genre it represents so well). When someone in an awkward situation lies to try to make it better, then lies to cover up the lie, then continues in greater and greater contortions to try to preserve their illusion of social conformity, it's presented as funny. But to me, it isn't. It's a tragedy, and it's a tragedy reflected in our daily lives as a society. This movie reminds me of everything I dislike about shallow social convention, and about people who subscribe to it and who desperately crave the approval of others. No laugh track, no acrobatically awkward pratfall, could make me find that funny.
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Summary: Meet The Parents
Review: One of my all time fav. movies. the dvd is mastered wonderfly & i recommend it to any deniro or stiller fan...Best dvd i ever bought
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Summary: Limp
Review: The plot of the film is reasonably simple. Ben Stiller plays a character who is a male nurse. He feels a little edgey about his social status and has a difficult time when he meets the parents of his fiance. He tries to be pleasant but his attempts to be polite are seen as evasion or lying. He limps along from disaster to disaster seeming more and more absurd till a rather artificial happy ending. Ben Stiller now must be close to Americas premier comic actor. Robert De Nero is not normally known for his comic strengths but his skills as an actor means that he is good in his part. Terri Polo as Stiller's girlfriend is also good, looking attractive but not like a model, like a real person. The basic problem with the film is that it is not very funny. A few of the scences are very good, but the pace of the film is slow and most of the jokes are drawn out and the plot density is not very dense. In most succesful comedies there are usually a number of plot turns occuring at any one time so that jokes are unexpected and pile on top of each other. In this film the set up scenes crank along slowly so that you can see each joke coming a mile off and they have limited impact. The other problem is that the Stiller character is not that likeable. The fact that his fiance wants him at the end is not that rational and one thinks that she must have slept through a lot of the previous action. Still its sort of okay.
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Summary: A Funny Movie :D
Review: If I were you,I would go and see this movie.It's funny.You won't think it's boring.Hopefully,you will enjoy
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Summary: A disappointing three-stars
Review: A great premise, sloppily realized. DeNiro does an adequate job (he was much better in "Midnight Run" - if you can stand the repetition of the f-word and the body count, watch it; it's a very funny road movie/buddy pic). Stiller was much better in "There's Something About Mary" (that movie was just much better all around). Owen Wilson is very good. A few very funny scenes; but too many where there is too much effort to be funny and the humor never really hits the mark. Stiller, however, does a great job setting the mood in the beginning and getting the audience to squirm and feel his pain, er, discomfort.
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Summary: Meet the Boredom
Review: Again, I find myself at odds with society. Millions of people are enraptured with MEET THE PARENTS if for no other reason than Ben Stiller's surname being 'Focher' (you can just imagine the pronunciation jokes). Then, it's the THREE STOOGES meets FATHER OF THE BRIDE with some hilarious antics that predictably end up with the father and son-in-law sorting out their differences in a formulaic conclusion. The fabulous Ben Stiller and the legendary Robert De Niro are wasted here.
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Summary: Effective comedy, well played
Review: Watching a comedy is always a dangerous thing. The majority are gross-out, Farrelly brothers-inspired and frankly very patchy. This is a treat as it's not only funny but it's also completely inoffensive. In it nurse Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) goes with his girlfriend Pam (Teri Polo) to ask her father's (Robert deNiro) to marry her. Before long Greg is under the scrutiny of the whole family, Pam's old fiancé and even the family cat. Yes, admittedly it's obvious and has been done before. However, there are several things about 'Meet The Parents' which makes it stand out from the crowd. For one, it has a fantastic cast. Robert deNiro takes an utterly different course for a change and pulls it off as the CIA agent/protective father. Ben Stiller also proves that his mixture of affable nature and sarcasm can more than carry a movie. Secondly, there's just so many great set-ups here that will make you laugh throughout the entire movie. Although there are few laugh-out-loud moments, it's so consistent that you have to admire it. It's a case of what's the worst that could happen and it's sweet natured without being cutesy. This is a perfect all-rounder, something for the whole family.
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