Meet the Parents

Pros: Robert DeNiro, Ben Stiller
Cons: Predictable, other actors used ineffectively

Meet The Parents is a comedy that plays strictly for laughs. The movie is also primarily a showcase for its stars, Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller. I can't imagine a real-life situation where two men would have stood for each other's actions for an...

Pros: Stiller and De Niro save the film with their chemistry together
Cons: The movie isn't as funny as it thinks it is

I came out of the video store with a happy skip in my step.

I got it. I finally got it.

I’d missed it in the theater and it was always checked out at my local Videorama, but today luck was on my side.

I opened the...

Pros: Ben Stiller, Robert DeNiro and Owen Wilson
Cons: Last half of the film is pretty lackluster with only a few laughs

I will admit that I went into watching Meet The Parents with relatively low expectations. In fact, I didn’t even see the film in the theater. It was only after much nagging from my then-girlfriend did I even finally watch it. I was a marginal ...

Pros: funny, comedy.
Cons: none

This was a great movie and we enjoyed it completely.

Gaylord Fockner at the name is a male nurse in love with Pam. In desperate measures to ask her to marry him, he finds out that he has to meet her parents. Pam says daddy is nothing to worry...

Pros: Very Funny
Cons: May not be the best movie for young children.

I saw this movie when I was on vacation. My daughter had seen it and wanted me to see it. I had heard bad reviews about it. Even my son who likes funny movies said that it was stupid.

Well, I guess this is one that people either love or...

Pros: Great cast, lots of great lines
Cons: Suprisingly not rated R

Meet The Parents uses some of the slickest tricks to maintain a PG-13 rating. This movie could have easily been rated R. The main character, played by Ben Stiller, has the last name Focker. The other characters constantly call him "FOCKER!"....

Pros: enjoyable and worth seeing
Cons: none

I was at the mall today, with my sister-in-law and my 10 year old grand-daughter, and as we were walking by the movie theater, we noticed that "Meet the parents" was about to start.

On impulse we purchased tickets to see the movie....

Pros: Funny From Start to Finish
Cons: Too Many "Focker" Jokes

Comedy is a funny thing, really, and I don't just mean in the literal sense.

If you slip and fall down a flight of stairs and break your ankle, then you personally don't have very much to laugh about. However, all of the onlookers who saw you...

Pros: De Niro, some "laugh-out-loud" moments
Cons: Wilson, Stiller and some really lame moments, along with a cliched and predictable story!

Before it was showing in cinemas here in Hong Kong, I had heard many reviews raving on about how funny Meet the Parents is. The newspaper gave it a 4 star rating out of 5, and it seemed to be doing well at the box office, so I thought it must be...

Pros: Ben Stiller shines, DeNiro is actually funny and a cat uses a toilet!
Cons: Predictable, lazily directed and superficial.

If you want to discuss Meet the Parents as a work of cinematic art, you're already in the wrong room. As far as 'quality filmmaking' is concerned, it's actually a fairly slipshod movie. The screenplay is dull when it's not engaged in a 'gag scene', and...

Pros: Only a few scenes worthy of a laugh, Great Sleep Aid Material.
Cons: Predictable, repetition of poor excuse jokes.

With almost 300 Epinions written on the movie, Meet The Parents, the overall recommendation stands at 85%. In disagreement with the majority of Epinion Members that have reviewed this movie, I would not recommend this movie for your viewing...

Pros: De Niro acting.
Cons: De Niro doing slapstick. Stiller doing anything.

Ben Stiller plays Greg Focker who wants to marry a girl whose middle name is Martha. I just gave away the funniest part of the whole movie, and I'll bet you didn't laugh.

Greg is in love with Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo) and is poised to pop 'the...

Pros: De Niro, and the bad situations that Stiller gets stuck in are the highlights.
Cons: Can't really think of any.

I love these kinds of comedies-ones that show one bad thing after another. That is what Meet The Parents is. It’s a shame that most comedies nowadays lack the same element of humor that 80’s ones had like National Lampoon’s Vacation, ...

Pros: Funny!!!!!!
Cons: none

I laughed so hard that I almost peed my pants. My mom rented this movie and invited me over so we could watch it together. I laughed through most of the story. There were parts that were so far out there you knew that no parent would actually do it...

Pros: not many
Cons: its just not funny

Recently I found myself in a cultural wasteland of a place with time to kill. I was stuck for an evening at a friends house who didn't read, had little interest in music and no cable TV. As I had an evening to kill whilst they were out, with no books to ...