Meet the Fockers

[grand theft sparrow]

Streisand, to me, is like nails on a chalkboard.  That's all I'm saying.

You're being much too kind.

That's a train wreck waiting to happen as the first movie was just a collection of I Love Lucy gags strung together.  It was passable but Owen Wilson was the best thing in the movie ("If you're gonna follow in someone's footsteps, who better than Christ?"   ).

Maybe after Analyze That and the bomb that The Whole Ten Yards is destined to become, they'll have better luck.

[MacGuffin]

Dustin, You Putz!

If you were making a list of the most difficult people in Hollywood, chances are Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand would both be on it.

Both Hoffman and Streisand are now also working together in Meet the Fockers, which just started filming here in LA. It's the sequel to Meet the Parents and also stars Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, and Blythe Danner.

According to a confidant working on the very closed set, both Hoffman and Streisand have been fairly well behaved... for Hoffman and Streisand. It's also the first time Streisand has appeared in a film that she hasn't directed in more than seventeen years.

Hoffman has needled writer/director Jay Roach relentlessly about small changes in the script, which Roach has largely ignored, with producing studio Universal's support.

Barbra has mostly been in her "little waif girl" mode, extremely cooperative and unctuous to Roach. Those who have worked with her know Barbra has three distinct personalities: 1) Godzilla with a good manicure; 2) the bubbling bubeleh, and 3) the little waif girl. If you want to see the third personality, watch the "Papa Can You Hear Me?" segment of Yentl, if you're a hearty soul.

Populist Streisand even insisted everyone on the set call her Barbra and not "Miss Streisand." When AD Josh King made the mistake of calling her "Barb," however, the creature awakened. "Don't call me that!" Streisand snarled.

Hoffman then made a point to refer to Streisand as "Barb" continuously thereafter. Is Barb in this shot? Should I stand next to Barb? What's my line after Barb's?

Later, after a lunch break, Streisand recoiled in horror when she saw the camera crew all sporting "Bush 2004" buttons. Withering under the diva's stare, DP John Schwartzman admitted sheepishly that Hoffman had put them up to the stunt and passed out the buttons.

At that point, Streisand wheeled around to Hoffman and bellowed, "Dustin, you putz!" and stormed off the set.

Robert De Niro quickly played peacemaker and brought Barbra back a few minutes later. Hoffman apologized to Streisand and said he was only trying to help her get into character -- Streisand and Hoffman play Stiller's viciously feuding parents in the sequel.

[coffeebeetle]

I liked that alot MacGuffin.  Did you...?

[MacGuffin]

I liked that alot MacGuffin.  Did you...?

Nope. It's a true story. It was in the Barbra-Archives.com and People.com



Cast family photo:

[Stefen]

I don't know if i'll be able to watch this. I can only stomach Streisands face for so long. What an awful looking human being.

[El Duderino]

what's up with Terri Polo and her 7th grade bangs?

[Sleuth]

it's a prequel

[modage]

TEASER TRAILER:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/meet_the_fockers/

this looks like a dharma and greg movie, hopefully it will be funnier than the teaser.  i thought the first one was hilarious.

[Redlum]

The new Trailer is hilarious. Jack captaining a huge RV to the sounds of Puff the magic dragon.

[pete]

it's not NOT funny, but didn't they do all of that on Friends already?

[RegularKarate]

Pete, you're wrong, it IS NOT funny.

This looks amazingly bad.

[Pozer]

definately not NOT amazingly bad.

[Ghostboy]

This isn't amazingly bad, but it's not too great, or even good. Streisand was the best part (I don't have a problem with her, as other people here seem to); she was hilarious, Hoffman was pretty good and DeNiro did his schtick. So did Ben Stiller, and that is one schtick I'm quickly growing very sick of. I'm also sick of: dogs humping people's legs and cute babies. Which is what most of the jokes in this film seem to revolve around.

Anyway, I chuckled frequently but never laughed, and checked the time on my cell phone a lot. I loved the first one, and this doesn't hold half a candle to it.

[RegularKarate]

I'm also sick of: dogs humping people's legs and cute babies.

Are you kidding!?  Dogs humping cute babies will never get old!

[grand theft sparrow]

Are you kidding!?  Dogs humping cute babies will never get old!

Neither will cute babies humping dogs' legs!