It's a clash of the future in-laws, just when we thought it couldn't get any more frustratingly uncomfortable. Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Teri Polo, and Blythe Danner return in this sequel to the 2000 comedy "Meet the Parents," in which Ben Stiller's character, Gaylord Focker (of course), abandoned rational behavior in favor of pulling a Jack Tripper for nearly two hours while De Niro's Jack Byrnes made him regret every pratfall.
It looks like it's time for a little payback, Father and Mother Focker style. (Stop groaning, you wouldn't be able to resist either.) The sequel has garnered the original cast plus some extra sequel-sucking starpower in Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand, two actors at the pinnacles of their respective careers.
Hoffman and Streisand are set to play the ultra-easygoing Fockers, though it is a wonder how you might become a relaxed adult while negotiating through life with such a name.
For better or worse, the Fockers and the Byrneses are going head to head in "Meet the Fockers," directed by Jay Roach ("Austin Powers") and due out this Christmas.