Unfortunately, the 'Meet the parents/Fockers' recipe doesn't seem to work here: even two such comedy stars as Bates and De Vito can't save this one from failing to even entertain. The editing is somewhat hurried, and yet it can't make up for the tedious 100 minutes - with all the effort, I doubt if it even serves the purpose of killing that time, as was in my case. Still, Katie Bates is a pleasure to watch, but although she provides a very convincing performance as 'trailer trash' (as us the non-American viewers are supposed to imagine it from all the previous films on the subject), one can't help but wonder, are all those speech patterns that the screenplay limits her character to, real?
Better than one star, but not much more than that.
Better than one star, but not much more than that.