MEET THE PARENTS (2000) is a high water mark in cringe comedy and sees Ben Stiller's Greg Focker ready to marry girlfriend Pam but before he can pop the question, he must win over her formidable father, humourless former CIA agent Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro), at the wedding of Pam’s sister.
Peter isn't a fan but the rest of us enjoyed the agonisingly awkward humour and some of us even thought there were quite interesting social and ethnic observations going on since the embarrassingly named hero also happens to be a male nurse and Jewish. A strong recommend simply for the line “you tried to milk him didn't you, you sick son of a bitch”. Based on an independent film from 1992 that Steven Spielberg bought the remake rights to, the movie's strong Box Office performance of course meant that we were blessed with several sequels including MEET THE FOCKERS, LITTLE FOCKERS and MOTHER FOCKER.
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