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Meet the Parents (2000) Rank 2 Reviews
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RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) (Harry Guerin)
Guaranteed to put you off suggested Sunday outings for life. ...read the complete Meet the Parents movie review at RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) (Harry Guerin)
Film Threat (Ron Wells)
What saves the movie from remaining an exercise in self-parody for all involved is director Roach's feel for the material. ...read the complete Meet the Parents movie review at Film Threat (Ron Wells)
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New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
None of the jokes are forced, which makes Meet the Parents a singular achievement. ...read the complete Meet the Parents movie review at New York Times (Elvis Mitchell)
El Criticon (Antonio Méndez Casanova)
www.filmrecensiepagina.nl (Wilko de Bruin)
Moviola (Jorge G. Avila Andrade)
Jump Cut. Magazin für Film und Kritik
Susan Granger
Great humor comes from simple, universal truths, and there are few rites-of-passage as unnerving as meeting your prospective spouse's family. That's the dreaded dilemma facing Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) who realizes that it's important to get her father's ...read the complete Meet the Parents movie review at Susan Granger
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Shannon Patrick Sullivan
Yes, "Meet The Parents" is yet another victim of its own publicity. In between the various theatrical and television promos for the film, the ad men seem to have successfully spoiled just about every joke in the movie. Comedy relies on being unexpected; ...read the complete Meet the Parents movie review at Shannon Patrick Sullivan
Palo Alto Weekly (Jim Shelby)
Palo Alto Online (Jim Shelby)
Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro) gives his daughter's boyfriend, Greg Focker (Ben Stiller), a lie detector test in Meet The Parents.Ben Stiller essentially reprises his role as a lovestruck nebbish from There's Something About Mary here as Greg Focker, male ...read the complete Meet the Parents movie review at Palo Alto Online (Jim Shelby)
rec.arts.movies.reviews (David N. Butterworth)
Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
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 into crazed sitcom gear, the lark stops. ...read the complete Meet the Parents movie review at Globe and Mail (Rick Groen)
Detroit News (Susan Stark)
eFilmCritic.com (Andrew Howe)
The sight-gags and verbal repartee hinge upon uninspired, lowest-common-denominator hijinks. ...read the complete Meet the Parents movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Andrew Howe)
DigitalVD.de (Patrick Fiekers)
Film Values/Family Values (H. Arthur Taussig)
Bad for kids, the hero lies constantly, he never regrets or apologizes, but is forgiven for telling a single truth. Most of the humor is low, humiliating and painful. ...read the complete Meet the Parents movie review at Film Values/Family Values (H. Arthur Taussig)
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Whoever convinced the talents of Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller to appear in a movie as relentlessly unfunny and astonishingly dull as Meet the Parents should be hunted down and savagely defiled. Never before have two such skilled actors been so ...read the complete Meet the Parents movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
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