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2000
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Average Rating
3.6
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3.0
Passable movie entertainment, but like most future in laws leaves a feeling of something still desired.
Austin Chronicle
3.8
His movie is funnier because it never tries too hard; De Niro, in particular, gets laughs by leaning back and waiting for them to come to him.
Rogerebert
4.0
Critique: A very funny movie that is able to combine a great premise with ideal actors, laugh out scenes with a sentimental touch and over the top seq ..
JoBlo
3.0
Meet the Parents is a riotously funny, laugh out loud film from start to finish.
Spirituality And Practice
4.0
A comedy of escalating discomfort in which a hapless schmuck digs himself into a bottomless pit by trying to impress his girlfriends family.
Tv Guide
2.5
Big laughs ensue.Roach and his screenwriters Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg miss out on many potential gags.
Combust Ible Celluloid
2.5
Scenes that should have been uproarious are weaker than many of the movies smaller moments, whose everyday humormuch of it about the annoyances of air ..
Chicago Reader
3.8
Ben Stiller, an excellent comic actor, does some of his best work here, matched up with one of the all time greats, Robert De Niro.
Lariat
3.0
He gets that chance when the two of them then fly to the east coast two weeks later for Debbies pending wedding.
Screen It
3.0
And the result is quite good fun, even if it is far too much to take the story even remotely at face value.
Shadows On The Wall
4.0
All you really ask of a comedy these days is that it provides the requisite amount of laughs, and on this level, Meet The Parents delivers in spades y ..
View London
4.0
Blythe Danner as Pams mother gives maternal and matrimonial martyrdom a classy edge, and Owen Wilson as the uber WASP ex fianc with both a Midas and a ..
Film Journal
4.0
This results in a series of outrageous situations that showcase the excellent comedic talents of both actors.
Reel Talk Reviews
3.8
Ant Man and the Wasp Like its predecessor Ant Man (2015), Ant Man and the Wasp benefits substantially from its relatively low stakes.
Q Network
3.8
Studio bean counters prefer reinvesting in the familiar to gambling on the new.In trying to guess why Hollywood is producing so few satisfying, modern ..
Ew
4.0
About this universal premise has been woven one of the years most deliciously funny movies.
Empire
3.8
Sometimes disaster may be the best thing that can happen to a person.
Sf Gate
5.0
Every stinging remark and sarcastic one liner of Jacks produces crisis in Greg and chaos at home.Director Jay Roach, who made both the Austin Powers f ..
Bbc
2.0
It does not take a great comic mind to imagine that it contains grandmas remains.Now lets arm that young man with a bottle of cheap, celebratory Champ ..
Time
4.0
Roach ... knows to play to the movies twin strengths: Stiller and De Niro.
Washington Post
3.8
And in remaining true to the spirit of the original production, Ritchies The Fantasticks is hardly revolutionary; a trifle of a film based on a trifle ..
Mr Brown Movies
3.1
Where the movie excels in its its two standout central performances.
The Movie Boy
4.5
There are several hilarious scenes scattered throughout this movie as De Niro and Stiller really work well together.
Bullz-Eye
3.5
The film delves deeper into the realm of slapstick comedy as Greg struggles to constantly try to make a good impression and screws it up every time.
Reeling Reviews
3.1
Unfortunately, the movie as a whole doesnt live up to its top billed actors performance.
ReelViews
4.5
A look at the Laugh Factorys Comedy Camp, which for more than 30 years has offered a place for at risk kids and otherwise to try their hand at stand u ..
Calendar Live
3.1
And before long the slapstick kicks in: A spilled urn of grandmas remains, a sorry substitute for a missing housecat and an overflowing septic tank ar ..
Spliced Wire
2.5
But despite a fairly promising premise, the film feels curiously inert; theres nothing here worthy of enthusiasm, either positive or negative.
Reel Film
2.5
Meet the Parents is much too herky jerky to be completely successful, and it follows each laugh out loud scene with one that is completely or is at le ..
Deseret News
4.0
The humour is delightful with slapstick, one liners, farce and even some subtle musical jokes to boot.
Urban Cine File
3.0
Directed by Jay Roach, starring Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner & Teri Polo Greg Focker (Stiller) is a nurse who has decided that teacher g ..
Raidió Teilifís Éireann
3.1
Its a very funny film (the first meeting sequence is absolutely wonderful), youll have good hardy laughs, but the third act is a little messy.
Ross Anthony
3.8
Have these people never heard of a polite chuckle.But maybe the point isnt to believe that this situation could possibly happen, maybe the point is to ..
Big Picture Big Sound
2.5
Its not just that its not very funny, unoriginal and unmemorable.It made me laugh here and there, actually, and it isnt exactly boring or particularly ..
Montreal Film Journal
3.5
It is one uncomfortable moment after another and that is what Stiller does best, but director Roach would have done well to tone it down a bit.Scenes ..
Film Quips Online
4.0
Bills Vikings: How to watch, listen, what to look for The Bills will take an 0 2 record to Minnesota to take on the 1 0 1 Vikings Sunday.Heres some ke ..
Rochester Goes Out
3.5
But a needless reliance on toilet gags almost derails a simple but potent setup.
Nitrate Online
2.5
Chris Pine vs Chris Hemsworth vs Chris Pratt vs a SNUBBED Chris Evans.Who will win the great Hollywood Chris off
I Film
4.0
As a comedy in which everything seems to go wrong, Meet the Parents is a non stop riot, headed up by an excellent pairing of Ben Stiller as the haples ..
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