MEET THE PARENTS

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So I haven't been to the movies in a while. Me and a couple of buddies go to the theater on a Sunday night. I'm stoked, I'm ready to kick back and enjoy a good flick. But noooooooooo......once again, the most annoying human beings on the face of the planet manage to sit behind me in a movie theater. And the theater was packed so it wasn't like I could up and move. I was in the third row already. So imagine the worst, most annoying laugh you can think of. Now multiply that by ten and you have the cracking Hyena that sat behind me. Her husband Billy Bob who sat directly behind me, felt the need to rustle his bag of popcorn for thirty seconds straight every ten minutes, guaranteeing to his wife Thelma Lou that those giant kernels of corn are going to magically appear at the top of the bag. Not only that but he decided it would be more enjoyable for everyone around him if he ate with his mouth open. Here's a tip, and please, feel free to pass this paragraph around to anyone you deem annoying....stop acting like you are in your living room when you go to a theater. Shut the hell up and for God's sake, eat with your mouth closed, you inbred jackasses. I hate people.

Our 'coffee and cocaine' movie this week is Meet The Parents (a.k.a. First Class Ticket To Hell) starring everyone's favorite mystery man Ben Stiller as Greg Focker ( and yes, there are plenty of Focker jokes), a male nurse who plans on asking his girlfriend to marry him over the weekend when they take a trip to finally meet her parents. The only problem is the father played by Robert De Niro who's very overprotective of his little girl. Also is the movie is that mega superstar action hero actor Owen Wilson. Who's Owen Wilson you ask? Exactly.

The whole storyline is Ben's character who manages to single handedly screw up the entire weekend for both himself, his girlfriend, and his girlfriend's sister's wedding causing Bobby D to question everything about him. Is it me or is Deniro starting to look more and more like a pitbull?? The movie follows the typical plot formula and the jokes are very predictable throughout the movie, but dammit, they seem to still make you laugh. The chemistry between Ben and Robert is great. I haven't seen such on screen chemistry since Rosie co-starred with that plate of chicken gumbo. You just knew something funny was going to happen.

Although some of the dialogue was dopey and the humor repetitive, (there's only so many times you can do a Focker joke before running it into the ground. They ran it into the ground, dug it back up and ran it in again.) There are a few good scenes that really make you laugh such as the car, volleyball, and airport scenes. Ben Stiller still has that ' I don't understand ' look on his face like he does in most of his movies, but his biggest enemy was himself as he kept getting stuck in situations that made him look bad. Almost like the time I went on this one date and at dinner, my chopsticks flew out of my hand and poked the waitress in the eye causing her to spill her hot tea on my dates lap, which in turn made her kick me right in the...well, never mind.

I didn't enjoy the movie as much as everyone else in the audience seemed to, especially pig boy behind me, simply because most of the humor wasn't that funny to me and the picture started to become very repetitive in its execution of the jokes, unlike my reviews which are chock full of original humor each and every time and manage to make your lives just a little bit richer. God, it's nice to be loved by all of you....so anyway it's probably just me and my foggy brain but I'm a little tired of TV sitcom humor. However, most of you will find it funny which is why I recommend you go see it. Just because I didn't dig it that much, doesn't mean you won't. I'm gonna go against the norm here, ( what a shock) and give it a higher mark then I normally would, restoring your faith in your favorite movie reviewer and helping to stop the backlash of ' head up my ass ' e-mails I receive on a regular basis. And those are usually from my parents...

My rating:

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