Even though it stretches too thin sometimes, "Meet the Fockers" is a sequel that works at levels similar to and different from its source and another comedic meeting you won’t mind taking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 9, 2023

[The sequel] shamelessly carbon copies jokes and the plot structure from its predecessor.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 3, 2023

It's an unimaginative comedy, with occasionally effective scenes interspersed with flat retreads of the original's jokes.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 26, 2021

The humor stays approximately the same, largely thanks to the screenwriters (Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg) returning for this second chapter.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 6, 2020

"Meet the Fockers" is such a great assemblage of talent.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2019

Dodging any aspirations to satire or drama, Meet the Fockers is an intricately wrought, barely credible sitcom, but it's also as gratingly one note as a whoopee cushion.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2019

Every big comic setpiece plays like an idea for a comic setpiece rather than the finished article.

| Feb 1, 2018

Although the ingredients are all there, set to rise, something is missing, some crucial element to lift it up.

| Aug 24, 2017

Sequel to the mediocre Ben Stiller comedy "Meet The Parents" is a bawdier but inferior movie that relies on the star power of Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand as Stiller's Florida-dwelling Jewish hippie parents Bernie and Roz to fuel its ill-timed toi

| Original Score: C- | Apr 16, 2009

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

A consistently entertaining, sometimes uproariously funny film.

| Aug 11, 2008

Repeats itself and strains for laughs where the original giddily stumbled through them.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Milk bottles and related metaphors feature prominentlyas breast fetish stand-ins, but with a decidely peculiar asymmetrical preference for just the left one.

Full Review | May 26, 2007

Has its smattering of laughs, but the new faces bring fewer dividends than the elemental De Niro/Ben Stiller showdown of the original.

| Feb 26, 2007

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| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 3, 2006

Meet the Fockers is frequently funny, but it turns a bit too cruel in the third act to be as worthy a sequel to its predecessor as it could have been

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 27, 2006

This sequel's title indicates the content: smutty, silly and liable to make you smirk despite yourself.

| Jun 24, 2006

Fans of the first will find some amusement in familiarity, but with such a comically able cast this is a missed opportunity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 1, 2006

The expected misunderstandings ensue, as you'd expect, which would be pretty excruciating if not for the performances of Hoffman and Streisand.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Meet The Fockers has assembled a historic, once-in-a-lifetime cast, then stranded them in the laziest, most mercenary kind of sequel imaginable. It's like the 1927 Yankees taking on the Special Olympics softball team.

| Sep 26, 2005