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Meet The Parents (Special Edition) [2000]
starring: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo, James Rebhorn
directed by: Jay Roach

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5050583020457
Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Special Edition, Widescreen
Label: Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: January 17, 2005
Running Time: 103 minutes
Studio: Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Sales Rank: 7334

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Randy Newman's opening song, "A Fool in Love", perfectly sets up the scenario of Meet the Parents: "Show me a man who is gentle and kind and I'll show you a loser". Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) is the fool in love. 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 feebly attempts to ingratiate himself with his prospective father-in-law rather than having the courage of his convictions. It doesn't take an elite member of the CIA to see right through Greg, but unfortunately that's precisely what Jack is. Directed by Jay Roach (the Austin Powers films), Meet the Parents is a well-crafted comedy that makes for a pleasant contrast to the sloppy excesses 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 humour, while De Niro's excels as the intimidating father. Blythe Danner as his wife, the Gracie to De Niro's George Burns, is the true heart of the film and Owen Wilson turns in yet another terrific comic performance as Pam's ex-fiancé. --Andy Spletzer, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- good fairly clean fun
This is a very enjoyable light film, part of whose appeal is the entertaining performances it draws from Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro, who play off each other very amusingly. It's a feel-good film with a happy ending, but also with enough genuinely witty lines and entertaining scenarios to make it more than just pleasant pap you talk through ...it holds the interest and has few surprises along the way. I've seen it a couple of times and - the test of a good film - it holds up on a second or third viewing. Recommended. The sequel, 'Meet the Fockers' is equally good, with the added advantage of very enjoyable over-the-top performances form Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand.

Rating:

- What a great film!
This film is just hilarious. It really does cheer you up to know that you are not Ben Stiller. I love De Niro's face it is comical!! This is a good film for everyone. I love the moments when you squirm because you are that embarrassed for Stiller's character. And if you are a dog lover and a cat hater this is definately your cup of tea!! However if your wedding is next week dont watch this before hand - watch it after, you will be so relieved at how your wedding went so smoothly.

Rating:

- Meet The Parents
Meet the Parents is one of those films that has a more gentle snigger quality to the laughs it brings rather than being an outrageous mirth fest but for all that it still remains an awfully funny film.

Probably where the humour works best is that the story remains very realistic in both the basic plot, the feelings of nervousness and dread at meeting your would be in-laws for the first time and trying to make the all important good first impression, and it also works very well in that the story progression remains plausible even if a little far fetched as we watch the poor hapless Greg bumble from one awful mishap to the next.

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Rating:

- Laugh out loud comedy
Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) is in love with his girlfriend, Pam, and he is just about to ask her to marry him when he finds out that her sister has just got engaged, and her fiance has asked her father, Jacks (Robert DeNiro) permission first. Feeling he needs to do the same it is time to meet Pam's parents.

So desperate is he to please Jack that from the off when asked questions and faced with situations he concocts stories and scenarios to show himself up in the best light possible. Seeing straight through him and unbeknown to Gregg, Jack is not the ex rare plant salesman Pam told him he was, but is instead an ex-CIA operative, who'll be damned if he's going to let his beloved Pam marry some pothead nurse!

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Rating:

- So many choice moments
Meet the Parents is a rare film: a comedy that actually improves with repeated viewings. Its pleasure partially lies in its simple and universal premise, that meeting your partner's parents is inevitably a painful experience. But what if your girlfriend's Dad was a cranky, possessive Robert De Niro? And what if he was a former CIA agent and 'human lie detector'? Oh dear. It is primarily the solid interaction between likable loser Ben Stiller and bristly De Niro that makes this film so enjoyable (along with a little help from a scene-stealing Owen Wilson as a perfect ex-boyfriend), but this is coupled with a sparkling script that wrings every possible laugh out of the film's premise and cast. Stand-out scenes include the dinner-table/urn occasion, ... Read More:

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