Movies: High Drama, Low Comedy

Meet the rowdy cast of the sequel to that comedy about in-laws. Know any of them?

Technically, meet The Fockers is a sequel to the $166 million-grossing 2000 comedy Meet the Parents. Actually, it's an excuse to watch some of America's most iconic actors ply their craft as they get electrocuted, teach Tantric sex to senior citizens and rescue dogs from RV lavatories. (Imagine a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Meatballs, and you're close.) TIME's Josh Tyrangiel sat down with the Fockers (Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand and Ben Stiller) and the Byrneses (Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner and Teri Polo) to discuss comedy, Cialis, the unexpected tenderness of Kevin Costner and, in De Niro's case, to grunt...

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