The Fockers are formally again on the town due to Common Footage. Just lately, a new Meet the Parents movie was announced that may reunite Ben Stiller‘s Greg “Gaylord” Focker and Robert De Niro‘s Jack Byrnes, together with Teri Polo and Blythe Danner as Pamela Martha Focker and Dina Byrnes respectively. Whereas plot particulars aren’t obtainable but and the mission continues to be early within the course of, there is not any time like the current to meet up with the comedic household earlier than their subsequent get-together. Netflix will make that course of so much simpler subsequent month, as the unique and its two sequels — Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers — are set to hit the platform on January 1.
Released in 2000, the unique Meet the Dad and mom follows Greg by a sequence of mishaps as he tries to earn the approval of his girlfriend’s mother and father earlier than he proposes. A nurse with a reputation he is embarrassed by, he is particularly anxious about assembly the lofty requirements of Pam’s retired CIA agent father, Jack, who’s fiercely protecting of his household and appears to immediately dislike everybody his daughter brings house. Greg’s acquired a great coronary heart, however that may’t save him from Jack’s comedic wrath as his weekend go to turns right into a nightmare stuffed with errors that construct to him almost destroying their house. Of the trilogy, director Jim Roach‘s authentic movie penned by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg stays probably the most highly-regarded of the sequence up to now with a Licensed Recent 85% rating from critics and 79% rating from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes.
Whereas the film that began all of it could also be an awkward comedy classic, the sequels are way more divisive. Meet the Fockers pads out an already starry solid with much more firepower, together with Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand as Greg’s mother and father alongside Tim Blake Nelson and the returning Owen Wilson as Pam’s frustratingly good ex-boyfriend Kevin. The movie revolves round Greg and Pam attempting and failing to convey their woefully completely different mother and father along with comedic outcomes. Little Fockers appeared to shut out the franchise with a remaining spherical of misunderstandings for Greg to navigate to fulfill his father-in-law and earn his blessing to be the household’s “Godfocker,” bringing hundreds extra stars alongside for the event, together with Jessica Alba, Laura Dern, Kevin Hart, Harvey Keitel, and Jordan Peele, amongst others. Every one was received far worse by both critics and audiences, with the trilogy capper hitting a low of 9% and 34% respectively.
The ‘Meet the Dad and mom’ Franchise Has Been a Constant Field Workplace Winner
For all of the criticisms of the latter two movies, it is onerous to disclaim the success of Meet the Dad and mom. In complete, the franchise garnered over $1 billion on the field workplace, with Meet the Fockers setting a excessive watermark for the franchise with $522.7 million worldwide. The wildly impactful first movie, which began as a remake of an unbiased movie of the identical identify by Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke, additionally impressed two tv sequence – NBC’s sitcom In-Legal guidelines and the truth sequence Meet My Of us. The brand new movie will convey again sequence co-writer Hamburg as soon as extra to recapture the magic another time on the large display and see the place the Circle of Belief lies now after over ten years away.
Meet the Dad and mom, Meet the Fockers, and Little Fockers arrive on Netflix on January 1. Keep tuned right here at Collider for future updates on the newest movies and sequence heading to streaming.
Meet the Dad and mom
- Launch Date
- October 6, 2000
- Runtime
- 108 minutes
