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July 06, 2002
Meet The Parents
Slapstick comedy Ben Stiller plays a haplesss male nurse going to meet his girlfriend's parents for the first time - and the dad is ex-CIA agent Robert De Niro. You could almost write the rest yourself, as the accidents get more extreme, and Stiller floods the garden with sewage before nearly burning the house down and singing the family cat. He gets thrown out eventually, and De Niro has an unchararacteristic change of heart to give us the happy ending we need. It's quite a funny film, and the line "Well I have nipples, can you milk me" from De Niro makes it a worthwhile watch alone, but the comedy is far too undemanding. If Laurel and Hardy were around today they would be making better films than this; if they removed just a couple of unnecessary scenes, and perhaps not named the main character Gaylord Fucer, it could easily be placed on the kids shelf in the video store, and that's where it should have been aimed along with titles like "The Nutty Professor" and "Flubber". AE0Posted by se71 at July 6, 2002 11:26 AM
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