| Arguably the best comedy of 2004, Meet The | | | | talent. Earlier comic roles in Wag The Dog (1997), |
| Fockers is a hilarious, humor-filled marathon. | | | | Analyze This (1999), and Meet The Parents (2000) |
| Screenwriters Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke | | | | prepared movie-goers for the veteran actor's zinging |
| (who should have received Oscars for their flawless | | | | one-liners. Throw Dustin Hoffman (who's also |
| penmanship of Meet The Parents) turn in another | | | | surprisingly funny) into the mix, and Meet The |
| blockbuster manuscript. But, as with its predecessor, | | | | Fockers becomes one of those rare comedies that |
| Meet The Fockers wouldn't be the comedy | | | | movie aficionados will want to see over and over |
| masterpiece it is without the onscreen chemistry of | | | | again...Meet The Fockers follows the continuing |
| Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro.Stiller, son of comedian | | | | hardship of Gaylord "Greg" Focker (Ben Stiller), a male |
| Jerry Stiller (Seinfeld & King Of Queens), is a comic | | | | nurse whose future father-in-law, Jack Byrnes |
| genius in his own right and has recently dominated | | | | (Robert De Niro), is a never-ending source of |
| the Hollywood box office with a string of smash | | | | torment. A retired CIA operative, Jack is paranoid |
| spoof comedies such as There's Something About | | | | and controlling, and Greg's previous attempts to win |
| Mary (1998), Meet The Parents (2000), Zoolander | | | | over Jack's affections have always come up short. |
| (2001), Along Came Polly (2004), and Dodgeball | | | | Now, Greg's life problems are multiplied by the |
| (2004). De Niro, on the other hand, moves from the | | | | imminent first meeting between his in-laws-to-be and |
| less serious roles of his early career into the comedy | | | | his "birth parents". |
| genre with an ease fully indicative of his enormous | | | | |