Meet the Parents

Pros: good cast
Cons: immature humor, unamusing, unenjoyable

After seeing the movie trailer of Meet The Parents I thought that the movie looked like a good promise for some laughs. The cast also looked assuring of a good movie, with Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro taking lead parts. How could this movie...

Pros: Lots of laughs, very funny, DeNiro and Stiller are great, funny plot
Cons: What was the name of Blythe Danner's character?

Meet Greg (Ben Stiller). Ben is a male nurse living in Chicago with his girlfriend. Meet Pam (Teri Polo). Pam is a teacher and Greg’s girlfriend. Greg is so in love with Pam, that he is about to propose to her, when she receives a phone call from her...

Pros: Good for a few laughs
Cons: Not worth more than 8 bucks really...

I didn’t really want to watch Meet the Parents. I only did because I was bored and had nothing else better to do. It did have some laughs but frankly speaking, the kind of laughs you get from this movie is really really really getting...

Pros: funny, Deniro
Cons: none

If you can remember back to the days of the old "Home Alone" movies, or even farther to "Ferris Buellers Day off", you remember that those were some of the funniest films that you had ever set eyes on. "Meet the Parents" is...

Pros: Um, EVERYTHING!!
Cons: If you can find any, e mail me

All it took was the preview- that did it for me. The shot of Ben Stiller, trying not to fall off the roof and inadvertently starting the lawn on fire was what really got my attention. By the end of the preview, my boyfriend and I were laughing so...

Pros: A couple of really funny moments
Cons: Little plot - but what can you expect!

Meet the Parents starring Ben Stiller and Robert DeNiro. Wow what a really average comedy. This movie was basically another one of your stupid slap-stick comedies. Little plot lots of stupid things that would NEVER happen in real life.

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Pros: Ben Stiller and Robert DeNiro
Cons: Can see some jokes coming a mile away

My wife and I don't see many movies -- four kids can cramp your social life! -- so when we do, we tend to be very selective. I'm happy to say we were pleasantly surprised by "Meet the Parents."
As you probably know by now, Ben Stiller...

Pros: some funny scenes
Cons: repetitive jibes on same material, not enough humorous scenes, wasted potential

Meet the Parents is the darker side of the Murphy’s Law style of comedy rules. Obviously, that means that if there’s something that can go wrong, it will, but it delves deeper than that. If someone says, don’t do something, it will happen, if someone...

Pros: Some good dialogue and good performances, some uncomfortably realistic black comedic moments
Cons: Too long and convoluted; unsure of itself

If you put "Taxi Driver" and "The Cable Guy" together, chances are the result would be a satire of almost Dr. Strangleove-ian darkness. For the first hour and a half, that is more or less what "Meet the Parents" is. But when things go awry (both in the...

Pros: What could possibly be funnier than a movie about a guy who milks cats?
Cons: The Focker cracks get really irritating

Mel Brooks said it best when he said “If a person falls and breaks their ankle that’s tragedy, but if a person falls down an open manhole and dies, that’s comedy.” Pain can be funny and Meet the Parents succeeds in demonstrating this by...

Pros: good photography, acting, special effects, storyline
Cons: some bad vibes from Stiller's character make sympathy difficult

MEET THE PARENTS was originally a 1992 very low budget film produced by the quirky stand-up comedian Emo Philips and starring its writer/director Greg Glienna, and was generally ignored except at the Edinburgh Film Festival. Now, eight years later,...

Pros: Funny, Well-Though Out Comedic Plot, Great Casting
Cons: Some Predictability

Ok, I admit it. I'm a DeNiro guy. I've seen just about everything he's been in and liked them all (ok, I refused to watch "Nuns on the Run", but everyone has their limit). But still, I went into "Meet the Parents" a little more...

Pros: Girlfriend's brother, cat, ex-boyfriend
Cons: Predicatable, No chemistry between Stiller and Dinero

I was initially very excited to go see this movie. I think that Robert Deniro and Ben Stiller are very talented actors, and I had hoped that the chemistry between the two would provide comedic sparks. I was given a pair of pre review passes to go see...

Pros: Humor all the way through the movie! Robert Deniro & Ben Stiller were great!
Cons: A little slow moving in the begining, but that doesn't last long.

Poor (Greg) Ben Stiller. He tries so hard to connect with his future inlaws and future family, he just can't seem to do anything right!


Greg has a few strikes against him before he even "Meets the Parents." #1, he is a male nurse,...

Pros: Funny, fun, entertaining
Cons: you feel bad for Ben

They have ruled this month! Dreamworks made Almost Famous, my favorite movie of the year, and then this comes along, which has got to be the best straight comedy I have seen in a long time.

Kudos to the two people responsible for this...