His parents

Meet the Fockers

Now, I haven't seen Meet the Parents, but everyone who I have spoken to said it was great. I'm guessing that Fockers doesn't quite live up to it's forerunner.

It's not a bad film, it just isn't amazing. De Niro looks, for the most part, bored, and I've yet to see anything that has convinced me of his skill as a comic actor. Stiller runs on autopilot. Hoffman and Streisand are the best characters in this film, but even then they don't feel like they're quite living up to their full potential. Pam and her mother. Well I'm sure they were in the film somewhere, but I can't remember them actually doing anything. The 'Fockers' gag gets a bit tiresome before the end -- although 'I'm going to be Pamela Martha Focker . . . yes I'm aware how it sounds' provokes a genuine laugh.

I'm tired of dogs that hump everything in sight being used as a comedic device. It's just been done too many times before to be funny.

Owen Wilson. Why?

That's not to say there aren't good moments though: the sherrif who makes an appearance towards the end had me laughing harder than anyone else; Greg admitting that he fancied his mother-in-law, and the inappropriate dinner table conversations were also well done.