2000 · comedy · romance
Meet the Parents (2000)
Directed by Jay Roach1h 48m2000
Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent Jack Byrnes, at the wedding of Pam's sister. As Greg bends over backward to make a good impression, his visit to the Byrnes home turns into a hilarious series of disasters, and everything that can go wrong does, all under Jack's critical, hawklike gaze.
Our read: Meet the Parents (2000) (2000) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- funny
Watching Meet the Parents tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How Meet the Parents feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want relentless awkward comedy trying to impress a nightmare father-in-law.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if family cringe or constant disasters make you squirm.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like Meet the Parents, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →