An average movie

Robert De Niro is a great actor and he used to be my favorite one. However, he made a pretty good job lately ruining his prestigious legacy (at least, the situation is not as tragic as with Nicolas Cage…). Indeed, nowadays, he shows up in about 4 movies a year and most of them are really forgettable or even borderline bad. This movie is a perfect example. I mean, I thought that ‘Meet the Parents’ was actually pretty good and it was nice to see De Niro chewing this part providing his funniest character so far. Since it was a success, they had to make a sequel which was watchable but this last installment was just really unnecessary and rather cringe-inducing. Let’s start with this massive cast (Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo, Jessica Alba, Laura Dern, Harvey Keitel). Even though it does sound great on paper since this movie doesn’t even reach the 100 minutes, most of them just show up for a couple of scenes so you wonder if it was even worth casting them in the first place. Furthermore, the story was even rather pitiful this time around. And what was this with Greg Focker being a nurse but also being a manager at the same time?!? I mean, if you decide that your main character should have an unexpected job, just stick to it and don’t make it look like something different (the fact that he could built a huge house with a nurse salary was also rather ridiculous). Above all, the jokes were pretty bad but, I have to admit it, I had to laugh a couple of times because of how stupid it looked like so they get a few points here but I’m being generous. To conclude, it is yet another disappointing feature starring De Niro and it is not really worth a look, even if you liked the previous installments.

5/10