Meet the Fockers (2004)
- Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed a hidden easter egg referencing Jay Roach's previous film in the background of the opening scene.
- The incredible score for Meet the Fockers was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- During the filming of Meet the Fockers, Ben Stiller improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
Meet the Fockers is a 2004 American comedy directed by Jay Roach, the sequel to Meet the Parents. Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro return as Greg Focker and Jack Byrnes, now traveling to Florida for the two families to meet before Greg and Pam's wedding. There, Jack's rigid, surveillance-obsessed ex-CIA personality clashes spectacularly with Greg's parents β his uninhibited, sexually liberated mother Roz, a sex therapist for the elderly played by Barbra Streisand, and his free-spirited, stay-at-home father Bernie, played by Dustin Hoffman, who showers his son with embarrassing affection.
Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman's performances as the Fockers β warm, loud, and gloriously unashamed of everything Jack Byrnes finds mortifying β were the sequel's primary entertainment. The contrast between the uptight, WASP Byrnes family and the exuberant, boundary-free Fockers mined every possible culture-clash joke. Meet the Fockers earned $522 million worldwide on a $80 million budget.
