Meet the Fockers

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Meet the Fockers

PG-13

2004

1h 49m

Comedy

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Now that Greg Focker is "in" with his soon-to-be in-laws, Jack and Dina Byrnes, it looks like smooth sailing for him and his fiancée, Pam. But that's before Pam's parents meet Greg's parents, the Fockers. The hyper-relaxed Fockers and the tightly-wound Byrnes are woefully mismatched from the start, and no matter how hard Greg and Pam try, there is just no bringing their families together. This all adds up to a disastrously funny time of getting to know you.

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Critics Consensus

Talented cast is wasted as the movie is content with recycling jokes from its predecessor, Meet the Parents.

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Amy Simmons

Time Out

06/24/2006

This sequel's title indicates the content: smutty, silly and liable to make you smirk despite yourself.

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Empire Magazine

04/01/2006

2/5

Fans of the first will find some amusement in familiarity, but with such a comically able cast this is a missed opportunity.

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Nathan Rabin

AV Club

09/26/2005

Meet The Fockers has assembled a historic, once-in-a-lifetime cast, then stranded them in the laziest, most mercenary kind of sequel imaginable. It's like the 1927 Yankees taking on the Special Olympics softball team.

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Nick Rogers

Midwest Film Journal

11/09/2023

3/4

Even though it stretches too thin sometimes, "Meet the Fockers" is a sequel that works at levels similar to and different from its source and another comedic meeting you won’t mind taking.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

08/03/2023

1/4

[The sequel] shamelessly carbon copies jokes and the plot structure from its predecessor.

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Sean Collier

Box Office Prophets

02/26/2021

5/10

It's an unimaginative comedy, with occasionally effective scenes interspersed with flat retreads of the original's jokes.

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Nic S

@NicSmith37398392 Jul 29

It's funny. More awkward to watch then I remembered. The plot wrapped up abruptly and unrealistically but it didn't feel too bad.

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Travis M

@TMorg007 Jul 10

This is supposed to be funny? It's like they made a movie for mentally challenged people so they said "Who should be cast? Crusty butthole of a human being to be the father character...Deniro, perfect!" He's miserable, he emotes misery, and gives misery to anyone bored enough to sit through this crap sandwich of a "film". The acting is daytime soap opera quality, and the jokes are basically just one weak pun after another. Is it possible to burn a digital copy? Asking for a friend.

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Mitchell S

@Mitchstur May 29

They kind of turned up the volume on the raunchy humor, Jack has the exact same exhausting character arc. But somehow this sequel is mildly entertaining.

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@MarioGalaxyMovieIsgood May 27

I don't think those are the right kind of cheeks

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Jon R.

@JuantheBaptist May 4

Not as good as the first but still a solid follow up, deniro is great again and stiller alongside Hoffman and Streisand were pretty good.

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Christian M

@chriss17eu Jan 30

'Meet the Fockers' is one of the worst sequels I’ve ever seen. It starts with promise, recalling the first film’s precise, awkward humor, but the arrival of Hoffman and Streisand instantly drains the comedy. Their character work is impeccable, but it clashes with the story, creating rejection instead of laughter. Ben Stiller remains a strong anchor, and his chemistry with Teri Polo is still enjoyable; De Niro, however, fails to engage. The plot is clumsy, simple, and poorly written, with fatigue setting in by the midpoint. I wasn’t expecting a carbon copy of the first, but I did hope to laugh and be surprised—here, none of that happens. A weak, unsatisfying sequel.

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Synopsis

Now that Greg Focker is "in" with his soon-to-be in-laws, Jack and Dina Byrnes, it looks like smooth sailing for him and his fiancée, Pam. But that's before Pam's parents meet Greg's parents, the Fockers. The hyper-relaxed Fockers and the tightly-wound Byrnes are woefully mismatched from the start, and no matter how hard Greg and Pam try, there is just no bringing their families together. This all adds up to a disastrously funny time of getting to know you.

Director: Jay Roach
Producer: Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Jon Poll
Screenwriter: John Hamburg, Jim Herzfeld, Marc Hyman
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Tribeca Productions
Rating: PG-13 (Crude Humor|Brief Drug References|Language|Sexual Humor)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 22, 2004, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $279.2M
Runtime: 1h 49m
Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.37:1)

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