Focker, who are as different from them as can be. As asked in the first movie, what sort of people name meet the parents russian subtitles son Gaylord M. Help us improve the quality of this website.
In this comedy from Austin Powers director Jay Roach, Ben Stiller plays a young man who endures a disastrous weekend at the home of his girlfriend’s parents. Please help us to describe the issue so we can fix it asap. Would you like to resume watching where you left off? All contents are provided by non-affiliated third parties. After registration, you can enjoy all functions of our site and watch movies best for your taste.
We will send a new password in your email. Watch movies with subtitles using Open Subtitles MKV Player. It is free and clean, works under Windows. Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent Jack Byrnes, at the wedding of Pam’s sister.
Despite sometimes sitcom-like execution, Meet the Parents is a hilarious look at familial relationships that works mostly because the chemistry between its two leads is so effective. Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend’s parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date’s worst nightmare. A modern comedy classic with emotional depth. With a hero called Gaylord M. Focker, you might expect this to be a film of snickering silliness. And while I in no way condone Greg’s vile rage directed at the air-stewardess, it is very funny. But, ‘Meet the Parents’ has the emotional truths that turn it from being merely a funny film into a comedy classic.
Anyone who has ever been married or about to will recognise the horrible accuracy of this film. It’s only logical that the monster in-law from hell should be obsessive about power and control. His domestic panopticon is a superb metaphor for extended family life, the idea of being judged, marked on ‘success’ or ‘suitability’ ratings, your every personal, financial, health etc. Greg should be lucky Jack isn’t married to Monica Geller’s mom.
But the film doesn’t simplistically pit Capraesque good guy Greg against shady CIA man Jack. If Jack is all about control, then so is Greg. It is wonderful to see Robert de Niro finally getting a decent comedy. Mean Streets’, ‘Taxi Driver’, ‘Raging Bull’ etc. He is genius here, his menace, his gestures, facial contortions, way of throwing out a line like he’s garrotting it – bliss. If ‘Parents’ finally lacks the pull of a film like ‘There’s Something About Mary’, then it’s probably the nature of the plot.
One of the funniest comedies of the year, De Niro and Stiller make the perfect comedy pair. At the airport, the attendants loose Greg’s parcels. Thus he arrives without any luggage. Once at Pam’s parent’s house, they exchange greetings and aquatint themselves with each other. Greg’s unusual last name, that he does not like cats, and is a male nurse, all facts that do not settle well with Pam’s father. Greg does manage to gift Jack with a pleasant supply of rare flowers.
