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Scenes that should have been uproarious are weaker than many of the movie's smaller moments, whose everyday humor isn't specific to the plot or characters.

-Lisa AlspectorFull Review

Alas, poor Focker. He can't help himself. And we can't help ourselves from falling about, equally helpless, at this superbly antic movie.

-Richard SchickelFull Review

When the script puts its faith in the audience, allowing us to find the laughs on our own, the film is irresistible, a bright lark. Yet when the writers panic, upping the antic volume and shifting into crazed sitcom gear, the lark stops.

-Rick GroenFull Review

A hilarious hodgepodge of The In-Laws and Annie Hall, in which De Niro gives his best comic performance to date.

-Peter Travers

[Roach] does know how to stage discrete comic moments, taking mildly humorous nightmares and turning them into nicely wrought miniatures.

-Stephanie ZacharekFull Review

I had a good time at Meet the Parents, even though the ratio of clinkers to yucks is disproportionately high.

-Peter RainerFull Review

Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller give the comedy of disaster a nice little workout.

-Bob GrahamFull Review

A refreshing change from the current trend of gross and grosser humor.

-Rene Rodriguez

Within its formulaic confines, the humor works uncommonly well from time to time.

-Eric HarrisonFull Review

Watching Ben get the girl or be seriously injured trying always has its dry, keening pleasures.

-Jessica WinterFull Review

It's funny. Really funny.

-Cody Clark

Meet the Parents doesn't sparkle like Vincente Minnelli's Father of the Bride. But with bubbly adult comedies at such a premium, it goes down like a flute of Champagne, leaving an aftertaste of giggles.

-Lisa SchwarzbaumFull Review

The jokes work, because they are so relentless and absurd.

-Robert Horton

If ever there was a movie that felt like it was built backward, it's Meet the Parents.

-John Anderson

With near-Swiss precision, director/producer Jay Roach ... and his writers make sure familiarity breeds hilarity.

-Susan Wloszczyna

Possibly the most amusing mainstream live-action comedy since There's Something About Mary.

-Kenneth TuranFull Review

Meet the Parents is a one- -- well, maybe two- -- joke idea that starts out goofy and fun, but soon runs out of verbal or visual ammunition.

-Glenn Lovell

A crisply paced romp featuring pitch-perfect performances by adversarial leads Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller.

-Michael Rechtshaffen

With Meet the Parents, mainstream Hollywood reclaims one of its former strengths. It proves that it still knows how to provide audiences with a good time.

-Philip WuntchFull Review

Meet the Parents builds brilliantly on interlocking comic situations.

-Roger EbertFull Review

See it with someone you love -- and maybe with his or her parents.

-Jay Boyar

Whenever the movie is about to go wrong, something happens to set it right -- usually instigated by the coldly mean De Niro or the hot, nervous Stiller.

-Michael Wilmington

In many ways reminiscent of There's Something About Mary.

-Jay Carr

Even with Stiller and De Niro, Meet the Parents is an encounter that can be postponed until it's available on video.

-James BerardinelliFull Review

De Niro delivers.

-Joe BaltakeFull Review

You couldn't do much better than to pit De Niro at his most humorlessly imposing against Ben Stiller at his most anxiously eager to please.

-Terry Lawson

Flat-out hilarious.

-Todd McCarthyFull Review

Wonderfully funny.

-(CNN.com) Paul ClintonFull Review


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