Streisand: The Mother Focker (Babs will be in sequel Meet the Parents)

E Online ^ | 3-12-04 | Josh Grossberg

[truthandlife]

Very disappointing. 'Meet the Parents' was a very funny movie but with lib Babs in it I don't know how I could laugh.

[BenLurkin]

Too bad.

Loved the first movie but no way will I go to the second.

I'd pay money to NOT see Barbara Streisand.

[stevem]

I'll pass.

[Paul Atreides]

but with lib Babs in it I don't know how I could laugh.

Her character could die, in the end.

[Trillian]

That movie was horribly un-funny. I can't believe I rented it.

[hauerf]

Darn. I have scheduling conflicts for the few days that movie will be in theaters. I'll have to wait for it to come out on toilet paper.

[SouthernFreebird]

Me too.... can't remember one funny thing in it and I'm usually easily amused. It rated up there with water boy for me... stoopid and a waste of money.

[JamesA]

I guess I'll miss it.

[freekitty]

I'll pass too.

[Arkinsaw]

but with lib Babs in it I don't know how I could laugh

It's not that bad. Based on the first movie they had to cast someone who could really play a moron and I think that they have succeeded marvelously. I mean seriously, when you look around, they couldn't have gotten a better actress to portray a moron. They avoid typecasting someone as a moron because Streisand has already typecast herself as a moron. She, in fact, is uniquely prepared for this role by playing a moron and a Mother Focker most every day of her life.

The only other choice for the role of Mother Focker would be Susan Sarandon. But Susan would be too serious a Mother Focker for most peoples taste. Most people will expect a ditzy, woggle-eyed, funny-nosed Mother Focker rather than a screeching, chalk-board scraping, harpy Mother Focker.

[Psycho_Bunny]

but with lib Babs in it I don't know how I could laugh.

Her character could die, in the end.

It would be funnier if her character died in the beginning....like during the Studio Bumpers.

Perhaps her character could slip and fall off the "2" of the Twentieth Century Fox logo.

Right on the <fff of the last note.

[patriciamary]

Well that's one movie I will not see. Although she does match the part, she is a ugly Mother Focker!

[Houmatt]

Three words: Box-Office bomb.

You read it here first.

[newsmeat.com]

No surprises here, but just in case any of you are curious, here's who Babs and co have been donating cash to:
Streisand
Ben Stiller
James Brolin

[newsmeat.com]

Here's some more:
Blythe Danner
Robert Deniro
Dustin Hoffman

and for your pleasure (since someone mentioned her)...
Susan Sarandon

[Houmatt]

Universal is targeting Meet the Fockers for a Dec. 22 release.

They'd damn well better not.

[Prime Choice]

That movie was horribly un-funny. I can't believe I rented it.

I'm with you on that. My only remark after watching it was, "Well, there's 3 dollars and 90 minutes of my life I'd like back."

[StrictTime]

I enjoyed "Meet the Parents", especially for DeNiro's performance, but will have to miss B.S. in "The Fockers". It drives me crazy how she exaggerates movements with her fingers so that you notice her fingernails. She does it in every movie.

Oh, and I also hate that she's a lying, hypocritical, self-important has-been.

[Rome2000]

Yeah, a great movie and now the only way I'll see the sequel is at gunpoint.