BBM at the Movies - Meet The Parents review

      Ok, this is as fresh as they come because I only got back from the pictures about
    an hour ago and my initial reaction to the film is that it was very funny and gets a
    BBM recommendation and a "go and see it because it's good."
      Ben Stiller plays Greg Focker who it later transpires is really called Gaylord and he
    is going to ask he girlfriend to marry him but before he gets chance to do so he has
    to go to her parents house to meet them. De Niro is an ex CIA agent who has a
    history of not liking any of his daughters boyfriends and so naturally she is a little
    apprehensive about bringing Greg over to see them but thankfully all seems to go
    well at the start. Gradually however De Niro begins to dislike Greg and keeps a
    close eye on him for the couple of days he is staying with them. Greg's cause isn't
    helped by the fact that everything he does seems to reinforce De Niro's feelings of
    mistrust towards him and this is how it continues for the rest of the movie with
   Greg digging himself a bigger and bigger hole which is very amuzing for us to
   witness until in the end De Niro sees the error of his ways and allows Pam and Greg
   whose real name has now been discovered to get married.
      I thought that it was an excellent film which is a relief beause I have been looking
   forward to watching it for ages. It starts off slowly at first laughs wise but when it
   gets going every scene is great and in the end as you can see Greg's mistakes coming
   before he has even made them you start to feel genuinely sorry for him because he is
   only trying to get Jack to like him because he loves his daughter.
      All the lead characters are good and although De Niro was probably better in Analyze
   This mainly due to the fact that the script gave more room to manouver but he still gives
   an excellent comic performance and he and Ben Stiller are good together. Meet The Parents
   is a funny film with some hilarious parts and although it could be accused of lacking in
   some areas where other similar films get it right and, that maybe if De Niro and Stiller
   were replaced by unknowns then it wouldn't have been the big hit that it was I still
   thought it was an entertaining film.