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90This buoyant, giddy comedy of catastrophe is the funniest film of the year so far, possibly the most amusing mainstream live-action comedy since "There's Something About Mary."
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90A flat-out hilarious mainstream comedy.
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88Many belly laughs.
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88De Niro and Stiller combine to bring on laughs you don't have to feel guilty about.
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83It's funny. Really funny.
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83It's a bouncy, loose limbed, ''families do the darnedest things'' sitcom that elicits ungrudging laughs.
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80De Niro's performance works because it isn't exactly likable -- he's totally at ease with his own jokes, but he's not out to make us feel relaxed.
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80A hilarious hodgepodge, in which De Niro gives his best comic performance to date.
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80Has a soft windup, but along the way are some of the best-constructed slapstick sequences since "There's Something About Mary."
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80Roach knows to play to the movie's twin strengths: Stiller and De Niro. Throw these guys together, turn up the intensity.
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75Directed by Jay Roach, who made the "Austin Powers" movies and here shows he can dial down from farce into a comedy of (bad) manners. His movie is funnier because it never tries too hard.
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75These two actors have a kind of genius for dark comedy: Stiller for suffering through crises and De Niro for creating them.
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75Calling a comedy old-fashioned nowadays might seem like a backhanded compliment, but that's precisely what this genial, funny movie is.
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75What makes it work so well is superb chemistry and a light touch. The spray-painted cat scene doesn't hurt, either.
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75Part sitcom, part comedy of manners - but it lacks the courage to deal honestly with class and ethnicity.
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75Blithely funny and on-the-money movie.
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75It's a kind of "sex, lies and videotape'' in suburbia.
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75With near-Swiss precision, director/producer Jay Roach and his writers make sure familiarity breeds hilarity.
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75Distress of Parents is a real pleasure.
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75Stiller is enjoyably long-suffering, and De Niro convinces us that Attila the Hun would make a preferable father-in-law.
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70While Stiller and De Niro can play hilariously off one another, the film -- despite its happy ending -- feels unresolved.
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70It has just enough "comedy" to qualify as crowd-pleaser.
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70While this movie is no great advance in cinema comedy, it is rewardingly silly.
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70Delivers its humor with clockwork reliability.
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70This is a high-concept comedy, and none of the jokes are forced, which makes Meet the Parents a singular achievement.
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70Director Jay Roach ("Austin Powers") has a keen sense of comic timing, and the script keeps finding clever new ways to mortify our poor hero.
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70Scenes that should have been uproarious are weaker than many of the movie's smaller moments.
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67Ultimately passable movie entertainment, but like most future in-laws leaves a feeling of something still desired.
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67A funny and sometimes substantial movie that in real life would never have a happy ending.
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63What begins as unassumingly dull wanders into disarming chaos.
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60The gross-out factor is surprisingly low, and the combination of Stiller and De Niro is inspired.
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50Watching Ben get the girl or be seriously injured trying always has its dry, keening pleasures.
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40Never before have two such skilled actors been so monstrously squandered in a movie so replete with failed gags and pathetic gaffs.
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