Meet the Parents
2000
****
Director: Jay Roach
Cast: Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner, Teri Polo, Owen Wilson
Greg and his fiancé Pam travel to meet her parents, where he plans to ask the father's permission to marry his daughter. However, the potential father-in-law is an extremely mistrustful and protective ex-CIA agent who is very hard to impress. Jay Roach's film takes a familiarly awkward scenario and turns it into a very enjoyable comedy. The story builds up nicely but goes a bit over the top towards the end when everything conceivable goes wrong for Greg. Followed by two progressively inferior sequels, Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers.
