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DVD Meet the Parents (Full Screen Special Edition)
Randy Newman's opening song, "A Fool in Love," perfectly sets up the movie that follows. The lyrics begin, "Show me a man who is gentle and kind, and I'll show you a loser," before praising the man who takes what he wants. Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) is the fool in love in Meet the Parents. Just as he's about to propose to his girlfriend Pam (Teri Polo), he learns that her sister's fiancé asked their father, Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro), for permission to marry. Now he feels the need to do the same thing. When Greg meets Jack, he is so desperate to be liked that he makes up stories and kisses ass rather than having the courage of his convictions. It doesn't take an elite member of the CIA to see right through Greg, but that's precisely what Jack is. Directed by Jay Roach (the Austin Powers movies), Meet the Parents is an incredibly well-crafted comedy that stands in nice opposition to, say, the sloppy extremes of the Farrelly brothers. Stiller is great at playing up the uncomfortable comedy of errors, balancing just the right amount of selfishness and self-deprecating humor, while De Niro's Jack is funny as the hard-ass father who just wants a few straight answers from the kid. What makes the Jack character all the funnier is Blythe Danner as his wife, the Gracie to his George Burns, who is the true heart of the movie. Oh, and Owen Wilson turns in yet another terrific comic performance as Pam's ex-fiancé. --Andy Spletzer
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Definitely a Keeper!
An outstanding comedy, Meet the Parents, brings to the screen the story of a male nurse who meets his girlfriend's parents in order to ask her hand in marriage. Things get a bit more complicated when his future father-in-law seems to take a strong dislike in him ...
Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson and the rest of the cast, have outdone themselves with their performances, which are exceptional to say the least! All the actors, without exceptions, give it their 100% and it really shows (the chemistry is AMAZING)! Very well written and very well presented, the movie is without a doubt guaranteed to provide more than just a few laughs.
The setting, the plot, the dialogues and the music are all wonderful!
In short, Meet the Parents is a movie definitely worth watching and one to seriously consider adding to your movie collection (if you haven't already done so)!
Not exactly original, but funnier than expected
This is another of those films where the plot basically writes itself, but depends on the absurdity of the details and the sincerity of the actors to pull it off. Fortunately for this movie, the entire cast believes in the film and give some great performances. Robert DeNiro banks on his tough-guy image, so that he seems to be in command even wearing a fuzzy sweater and trading belly-bucks with Owen Wilson. Ben Stiller is sincere and likeable even when blatently lying and trying to cover his tracks. The reason for the latter - the film does a masterful job at setting up how a little white lie keeps coming back to bite Stiller's character in the butt.
The female characters, although given less to do, ground the story in reality. Teri Polo plays the fiancee to be, and does a subtle and vital transformation from confident professional woman to Daddy's Little Girl as she walks over the threshold of her parents' house. But really, it's Blythe Danner as DeNiro's wife that acts as the vital brake and voice of reason on the silliness that keeps the situation barely under control until the correct moment.
There is a surprising amount of heart and truth in the story. Most everyone has been in that dreaded situation where they are desperate to fit in but can't. The best scene in the film is a visit to the girl's ex-fiance's house. They all end up in the pool playing volleyball. Stiller is obviously in good shape, but is thrown in a pool with a bunch of type-A players who obviously play pool-volleyball a lot. As the scene plays out, you really feel his isolation and pity him, while at the same time laughing at the absurdity of the other characters. It's this kind of heart that allows the film to have an emotional payoff at the end, which raises it out of the humdrum and into the enjoyable.
There are a number of different DVD versions of the film, varying in the number of extras. Mainly, the deleted scenes (of which there were many) and bloopers are the reasons to get the super-special edition.
Seemed to drag on and on...
I didn't like this movie from the very beginning. The entire movie seemed to drag on and on without showing any sign of ever ending. Needless to say I was very relieved when it was finally over.
There were only two people in this film that could actually act and they were Ben and Robert. The woman who was cast as Greg's wife was simply terrible! Not only was she unattractive, she just did not know how to act. I have absolutely no idea how she ended up with a role in this film. I fear for the future of movies if Hollywood keeps this up.
As for the "comedic" scenes of this supposed comedy, they weren't all that funny to be honest. In fact, almost everything I have seen in this film, I have seen in MTV movies that were indeed worse but nonetheless the first to try out everything that was done in this movie. I found myself increasingly bored with the plot. The only time I was actually paying attention was close to the end, but the ending bored me again. This movie is unimpressive and very dull. The only reason I even gave it two stars was because Ben Stiller did a very good job in it.
My only suggestion to you is save your money unless you like to watch movies that kill off your brain cells.
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