Dustin Hoffman: 5 Awesome Performances & 5 That Sucked
...And 5 That Sucked
5. Bernie - Meet The Fockers (2004)
While Meet The Parents was a fun exercise in cringe-inducing comedy, the sequel Meet The Fockers wasnt nearly so entertaining. This witless rehash of the original has Ben Stiller introducing his future father-in-law (Robert De Niro) to his hippie parents, played with maximum quirkiness by Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand. Hoffman is clearly having a blast acting opposite Streisand and De Niro, but his relentlessly upbeat and horny character is comic marmite. The laboured script forces him to embarrass himself constantly for the sake of cheap laughs and while hes clearly game for it, its tough watching someone work so hard for such little return. Hes not much better in Little Fockers either, but at least his number of scenes were cut way the hell back; which was good news for him, and the audience.
