Robert De Niro,
Ben Stiller,
Blythe Danner,
Teri Polo,
James Rebhorn
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In this comedy from Austin Powers director Jay Roach, Ben Stiller plays a young man who endures a disastrous weekend at the home of his girlfriend's parents. Greg Focker (Stiller) is completely in lov... read more
Directed by: Jay Roach
Release Date: October 6, 2000
DVD Release Date: March 6, 2001
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March 10, 2012Uses very quiet like performances with hilarious outcomes. A different comedy that stands out amongst the toilet-slapstick-fart-joke movies that are coming out nowadays.
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February 3, 2012I wish some of the slapstick gags were funnier than they were but there's no denying that as a whole, the movie was funny. DeNiro and Ben Stiller were absolutely flawless working with eachother and they had a lot of comedic charm. I do wish that it focused more on the laughs than... read more
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December 13, 2011Very funny movie about a guy who meets his girlfriend's parents for the first time. Her dad is suspicious of him. Love Robert's character. Owen is great as the ex-boyfriend. Feel sorry for Ben, should have gone home earlier!
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October 30, 2011This being the first installment it was actually funny, had some good gags and was worth watching, but I felt that some adjustments could have been made, casting in particular, and they should have made it so there could have never been any follow on's!
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October 28, 2011A typical rom-com that's slightly ill-balanced between romance and comedy. Robert De Niro's performance seemed terribly odd to me. Thankfully, I don't have to say the same for the rest of the cast.
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August 17, 2011Meet the Parents is one of the best comedies out there. The plot is how every guy feels when meeting his girlfriends parents, espically the father, and it really works because for Greg Focker nothing goes right on his trip. The cast was perfect, Stiller and DeNiro are hilarious... read more
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August 11, 2011MEET THE PARENTS, though a slapstick farce, has some kind of a feel-good sense to all of its jokes. Though the two sequels really aren't as funny and are truly more crude and gross (watch if you don't believe me; maybe not otherwise), this first entry has a good bit of heart in it.
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July 30, 2011Jack Byrnes: You tried to milk him, didn't you you sick son of a bitch?
"First comes love. Then comes interrogation."
Yeah, it may have been downhill from Meet The Parents on, but the first movie in the trilogy is one of the funniest movies of the first decade of the 21st cent... read more -
June 29, 2011When this film came out, I thought it was one of the funniest films that I had seen. The cast was great, and the film had plenty of funny moments. However the years have taken it's tole on Meet The Parents. The film is still a very funny comedy of course, but there's been lots mo... read more
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May 11, 2011A very good and funny film with good performances but leaves a lot to want.
Critic Reviews
April 9, 2012
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
August 15, 2008
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Alas, poor Focker. He can't help himself. And we can't help ourselves from falling about, equally helpless, at this superbly antic movie. Full Review
March 22, 2002
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
When the script puts its faith in the audience, allowing us to find the laughs on our own, the film is irresistible, a bright lark. Yet when the writers panic, upping the antic volume and shifting int... Full Review
June 4, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
A hilarious hodgepodge of The In-Laws and Annie Hall, in which De Niro gives his best comic performance to date.
January 1, 2000
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
[Roach] does know how to stage discrete comic moments, taking mildly humorous nightmares and turning them into nicely wrought miniatures. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine
I had a good time at Meet the Parents, even though the ratio of clinkers to yucks is disproportionately high. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle
Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller give the comedy of disaster a nice little workout. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle
Within its formulaic confines, the humor works uncommonly well from time to time. Full Review
January 1, 2000
Cody Clark, Mr. Showbiz
It's funny. Really funny.
January 1, 2000
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly
Meet the Parents doesn't sparkle like Vincente Minnelli's Father of the Bride. But with bubbly adult comedies at such a premium, it goes down like a flute of Champagne, leaving an aftertaste of giggles. Full Review
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