Meet the Parents (DVD) Reviews

Ben Stiller plays a male nurse called Greg who is keen to propose ot his girlfriend. But first he has to ask her father for permision (Robert De Niro). So him and his girlfriend got to meet her parents. When they get there every thing is going fine until dinner. They are tlking around the dinner table about a vase on the mantle piece ...  Read the complete review

OK we all know this film is not going to go down as one of the all time great so when I saw it I was pleasently surprised! In this movie (directed by the same team behind Austin Powers), Stiller plays a male nurse eager to propose to his live-in schoolteacher girlfriend, But first, Stiller has to go on a visit to her parents' lavish ...  Read the complete review

Well-known for the last 2 Austin Powers films, Jay Roach has become a class act of a comedy director since the release of the first Powers film in 1997. In 1999, he made the sequel, and now, instead of sequelizing and spoofing, Roach has turned to remakes, and with Meet the Parents, he proudly surpasses his sequel to Austin Powers, and with his ...  Read the complete review

worth watching, well done - Advantages: hysterical - Disadvantages: none

Gaylord Fockner <chuckling> at the name is a male nurse in love with Pam. In desperate measures to ask her to marry him, he finds out that he has to meet her parents. Pam says daddy is nothing to worry about. Gaylord, who goes by Greg most of the movie till his name is revealed, thinks okay, no sweat to this. While at Pam’ ...  Read the complete review

"Meet the Parents" could easily have been just another romantic comedy if it wasn't for 2 things in my opinion. Basically it's the principal actors that make this film. Robert De Niro plays Jack Byrnes a retired CIA interrogator. As usual he is excellent. This is another role which allows De Niro the chance to fly off ...  Read the complete review

This is a movie I saw at the cinema, and really enjoyed. It has plenty of genuinely funny moments, and characters that are very close to being completely believable. Ben Stiller is, for me, the best performer - the unfortunately named Greg Focker (plenty of jokes about that!), who wants to marry his girlfriend Pam, played by Teri Polo. He is a ...  Read the complete review

As I stood outside my local UCI cinema the other week, looking up at a suitable film to go and see, my eyes fell upon the title 'Meet the Parents'. I thought that I would go and see this, as I know that it has been getting a lot of hyp from the media recently and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. What I did see was a bit ...  Read the complete review

Greg Fouker is just about to propose to his girlfriend pam, when she recieves a phone call from her sister announcing her engagement. Greg and Pam head off to Pams parents house for the wedding, and lets just as that from the moment Greg steps into the airport that the entire weekend is doomed to failure. A string of catastophys from lost luggage, ...  Read the complete review

At $165 Million, this film was number seven at the box office for 2000. Though it is funny in parts, as is often the case with blockbusters I am left scratching my head at its runaway popularity. Comparisons with `There's Something About Mary' are unavoidable. Ben Stiller plays the same kind of sincere but hapless character in each film ...  Read the complete review

I really did not intend seeing this film, the reason why me and my friends ended up seeing it was due to my lack of intelligence and not being able to read my e-mails properly.I was hoping it would be good so i wouldn't be in the bad books for long, and thankfully it was and saved me!HOORAY!!!!! Anyway, the plot involves a ...  Read the complete review

There was a lot of hype before the release of this film, and a lot of it was based around the fact it was the same director as "Austin Powers", Jay Roach. In the same position, I would want to link myself to a huge film like that, but I think some people were put off as there were not Austin Powers fans, and what a treat they missed, and ...  Read the complete review

The advantage of owning a multi-region dvd player once again comes in handy. Meet The Parents has just been released in the USA with no sign of a release date over here yet. The film is a comedy gem with something a lot of people can identify with. Ben Stiller plays Greg who wants to marry his girlfriend Pam. First he has to meet her ...  Read the complete review

Meet the Parents is one of the funniest movies I have seen in the last year. For me Ben Stiller is just superb, I still have fits of laughter thinking about his MI:2 Movie Awards take off (check this out if you haven’t seen it) and Robert DeNiro is equally funny. It seems that Robert DeNiro is understated as a comedy actor but he has ...  Read the complete review

The thought of meeting the parents of your other half for the first time is enough to bring most people out in a cold sweet- a scenario which Meet the Parents plays upon to a great effect. Going through the mill in this well-executed comedy is Greg Ficker (played by Ben Stiller), meeting his girlfriend, Pam’s, parents for what turns ...  Read the complete review

It was with much reluctance that I agreed to watch this film with my husband. On the promising note of 'the lads on board have seen it and think its good' (hes in the navy). No offence to the lads on board, but they are mostly all single 18 -20 somethings with a typical navy attitude and mentality. The thought of sitting through the ...  Read the complete review

I know that this film has been out for a few weeks but I'm slow and have only just got round to seeing it. You've all probably seen it by now, and if you haven't will be sick of all these reviews that are being written about it so I might as well bury my head in a large bucket of sand... then again... For those of you who ...  Read the complete review

Meet the Parents is a riotous comedy about a man who goes to meet his fiancee's parents. If you thought your inlaws were bad, you ain't seen nothin' yet... Robert De Niro is the ex-CIA, turned florist who is trying to keep tracks with his daughters new boyfriend, Greg (Stiller). Everything basically goes wrong in this movie for ...  Read the complete review

Would you like Robert de Niro as you future Father in Law? Well the dilemma that Ben Stiller's character faces in this film is just that. It's almost de Niro as 'de Niro'- the Godfather - in fact he plays an ex CIA man, now supposedly in retirement after a career as a florist. 'Meet the Parents'is ...  Read the complete review

Remember the times you had to meet the parents of a boyfriend / girlfriend? Pretty scary huh? Now imagine the worst things that could happen while doing this already difficult task. Done that? Then you are only half way to knowing exactly what 'Meet The Parents' is all about! Directed by Jay Roach whose past films include ...  Read the complete review