Product Description

Now that greg focker is in with his soon-to-be-in-laws jack & dina byrnes it looks like smooth sailing for him & his fiance pam. But thats before pams parents meet gregs parents bernie & roz focker. The hyper-relaxed fockers & the tightly-wound byrneses are woefully mismatched from the start. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 08/22/2006 Starring: Ben Stiller Dustin Hoffman Run time: 116 minutes Rating: Pg13

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7373 in DVD
• Brand: Universal
• Model: 25823
• Released on: 2005-04-19
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 115 minutes

Amazon.com
Meet the Parents found such tremendous success in the chemistry produced by the contrasting personalities of stars Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller that the film's creators went for broke with the same formula again in Meet the Fockers. This time around, Jack and Dina Byrnes (De Niro and Blythe Danner) climb into Jack's new kevlar-lined RV with daughter Pam (Teri Polo), soon-to-be son-in-law Gaylord (Stiller), and Jack's infant grandson from his other daughter for the trip to Florida to meet Gaylord's parents, Bernie and Roz Focker (Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand in a casting coup). The potential in-laws are, of course, the opposite of Jack, a pair of randy, touchy-feely fun-lovers. The rest of the movie is pretty much a sitcom: put Bernie and Roz together with Jack, and watch the in-laws clash as Gaylord squirms. As with the original, there is a sense of joy in watching these actors take on their roles with obvious relish, and the Hoffman-Streisand-Stiller triumvirate is likeable enough to draw you in. But the formula doesn't work as well in Fockers mostly because much of the humor is based on two obvious gimmicks: Gaylord Focker's name, and the fact that Streisand's character is a sex therapist. As a result, the movie itself is more contrived and predictable, and a lot less fun than the original. The casting is grand, but one wishes more thought was put into the script.--Dan Vancini

From The New Yorker
"Meet the Parents" was pretty focking great (and it gets better with age), but this sequel is mostly average, despite the genius casting of Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand as the parents of Gaylord Focker (Ben Stiller). As a hippie lawyer, Hoffman has the most fun in the picture; he breaks out his hyperverbal patter and talks circles around everyone. -Michael Agger
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

The critics were right: Not funny at all!
If you have seen the first movie (Meet the Parents), you can anticipate the story line in this one: Dina (Blythe Danner) and Jack Byrnes (De Niro) finally meet Greg's (Stiller) parents Roz (Streisand) and Bernie Focker (Hoffman). Since the Byrnes' are very uptight, the Fockers must be quite the opposite. Hoffman and Streisand actually did their jobs perfectly and are the highlight of the movie. What spoils everything is, that Greg doesn't know his own parents and acts with surprise to everything they do. Boring. Many of the 'funny' scenes are highly predictable (boring again) or not funny at all. Like showing a middle finger to a one-year old could be funny? Anyway, the baby character could easily be excluded from the film. And the worst character? Definitively Owen Wilson. The audience at the theater went silent at his arrival on the scene. If you have seen Meet the Parents, you will be disappointed with this movie. It simply does not match up. I did not expect intellectual humor (like the hilarious Monty Python's Life of Brian), but the humor in this movie is really on the level of second graders. The critics were right this time.

The laughs are there.
Meet the Fockers is so much better than Meet the Parents but this sequel has its flaws. The best thing about this particular film is the casting of Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand, they are a hoot as a weird and unapologetic couple. Ben Stiller is still annoying and Robert De Niro seems rather bored in this sequel, he probably was forced do it. Good comedy just not that memorable.

Better film than the 1st GOOD, not perfect film
I Like this film better than the 1st.
Why. Adding Dustin Hoffman & Barbra Streisand.

I am not a fan of Barbra's but she & Dustin were great in their roles to me. Added with DeNiro 3 Oscar winners.
The 3 of them with Blythe Danner are perfect in their roles.

Teri Polo has a role that is just a watcher of course.
Now, I am NOT a fan of Ben Stiller. He does his usual routine in this role as he did in the 1st & in "There's Something About Mary". Same lying, put out then blows his top role. Wish they could have gotten a better actor for the role.
And, we MOST DEFINITELY could have done WITHOUT Owen Wilson in both films.

As for the DVD, it is a good package. I like extras & this one has the kind I like. Deleted scenes, bloopers, etc.

A BIG MINUS FOR THE DVD, IT HAS THE HORRIBLE LITTLE FLIP OPEN FLAPS ON IT.

Otherwise, you should enjoy the film.