The inevitable follow-up to successful comedy-of-discomfort MEET THE PARENTS (2000) delivers fewer laughs than its predecessor, which leaves too much time in which to ponder what a sad spectacle it really is — two professionals in their thirties reduced to childish squirming and whining by their overbearing parents. Engaged for two years, male nurse Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) and schoolteacher Pam Byrnes (Teri Polo) can't set a wedding date until Greg screws up the nerve to introduce frosty WASPs Jack and Dina Byrnes (Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner) to his uninhibited Jewish parents, Bernie and Roz (Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand). Complicating matters are former-CIA...
Released:
2004
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
100 mins