Meet the Fockers

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Meet the Fockers

PG-13

2004

1h 55m

Comedy

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Now that Greg Focker is "in" with his soon-to-be in-laws, Jack and Dina Byrnes, it looks like smooth sailing for him and his fiancée, Pam. But that's before Pam's parents meet Greg's parents, the Fockers. The hyper-relaxed Fockers and the tightly-wound Byrneses are woefully mismatched from the start, and no matter how hard Greg and Pam try, there is just no bringing their families together. This all adds up to a disastrously funny time of getting to know you.

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Critics Consensus

Talented cast is wasted as the movie is content with recycling jokes from its predecessor, Meet the Parents.

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Amy Simmons

Time Out

This sequel's title indicates the content: smutty, silly and liable to make you smirk despite yourself.

Jun 24, 2006

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Empire Magazine

Fans of the first will find some amusement in familiarity, but with such a comically able cast this is a missed opportunity.

Rated: 2/5

Apr 1, 2006

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Nathan Rabin

AV Club

Meet The Fockers has assembled a historic, once-in-a-lifetime cast, then stranded them in the laziest, most mercenary kind of sequel imaginable. It's like the 1927 Yankees taking on the Special Olympics softball team.

Sep 26, 2005

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Nick Rogers

Midwest Film Journal

Even though it stretches too thin sometimes, "Meet the Fockers" is a sequel that works at levels similar to and different from its source and another comedic meeting you won’t mind taking.

Rated: 3/4

Nov 9, 2023

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

[The sequel] shamelessly carbon copies jokes and the plot structure from its predecessor.

Rated: 1/4

Aug 3, 2023

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Sean Collier

Box Office Prophets

It's an unimaginative comedy, with occasionally effective scenes interspersed with flat retreads of the original's jokes.

Rated: 5/10

Feb 26, 2021

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GotRizz237

Meet the Fockers was a really good movie. I liked it a lot.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/02/25

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Max W

Building on the lighthearted family-comedy tone of its predecessor, and introducing Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand as highly contrasting personalities, Meet the Fockers delivers another delightful star-studded ensemble that never feels weighed down by its script.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/01/25

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Cees T

They really know how to milk a joke, but it ends well. 7/10 - Good moral fun instead of a nonlinear liminal mystery drama or whatever shines some critics' knobs nowadays.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

08/09/25

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tommy J

Instant classic. Just a simple fun movie. "I have nipples Greg, can you milk me?"

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/16/25

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Ed R

A sequel was not necessary for this series.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/16/25

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Stephen C

Funny in 1 hour and 55 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The worldwide gross is $522,657,936.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ages 13 and older!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/13/25

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Synopsis

Now that Greg Focker is "in" with his soon-to-be in-laws, Jack and Dina Byrnes, it looks like smooth sailing for him and his fiancée, Pam. But that's before Pam's parents meet Greg's parents, the Fockers. The hyper-relaxed Fockers and the tightly-wound Byrneses are woefully mismatched from the start, and no matter how hard Greg and Pam try, there is just no bringing their families together. This all adds up to a disastrously funny time of getting to know you.

Director: Jay Roach
Producer: Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Jon Poll
Screenwriter: John Hamburg, Jim Herzfeld, Marc Hyman
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Production Co: Tribeca Productions
Rating: PG-13 (Crude Humor|Brief Drug References|Language|Sexual Humor)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Dec 22, 2004, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $279.2M
Runtime: 1h 55m
Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.37:1)

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