Meet the Parents scored big guffaws from the efforts of Stiller's Greg Focker, saddled not only with a risible name but the "comical" profession of male nurse, to win over his prospective father-in-law, Jack Byrnes (De Niro), a rigidly obsessive and intimidating ex-CIA agent. The sequel to the 2000 smash Meet the Parents has its smattering of laughs, but the new faces bring fewer dividends than the elemental De Niro/Ben Stiller showdown of the original. But despite its convergence of movie legends, Meet the Fockers is more like an innocuous studio comedy from the 1960s, with toilet humor and sex jokes added to suit the times. After all, leading players Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand have two Oscars apiece, numerous nominations, and a library of modern film classics to their credit. If starpower were the only thing that counted, Meet the Fockers could easily be called an "event" film.
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