FOUR years ago, hapless male nurse Gaylord Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) met the parents of his beautiful girlfriend Pam (Teri Polo). It was an eye-opening experience to say the least.

Pam's horticulturist father Jack (Robert De Niro) turned out to be a retired CIA operative with expertise in psychological profiling, who made it quite clear that Greg wasn't good enough for his daughter.

Encouraged by Pam's mother Dina (Blythe Danner), Greg tried everything to win Jack's approval, but ended up setting fire to the backyard and spray painting the family cat, among other indiscretions.

Reluctantly, for the sake of his daughter's happiness, Jack welcomed Greg into the family.

Now, with Greg and Pam's nuptials beckoning, the time has come for Jack and Dina to travel to Cocoanut Grove in sunny Florida to meet Greg's lawyer father Bernie (Dustin Hoffman) and doctor mother Roz (Barbra Streisand).

Within hours of arriving, Jack discovers that Greg has told another little white lie: Bernie and Roz are, in fact, a liberal stay-at-home husband and a senior citizen's sex therapist.

Over 48 unforgettable hours, Jack questions whether he should have let Greg into the infamous Byrnes Family Circle Of Trust.

Meet The Fockers is a likeable and largely entertaining sequel that wrings it laughs from transplanting De Niro's ice cool paterfamilias into an alien setting where he suddenly feels out of place.

The sequel, penned once again by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg, plays heavily on our love for the characters from the original film.

Once again, poor Greg finds himself in a perpetual state of humiliation - walking in on his mother massaging Jack: "You were riding him like Seabiscuit mom"; or waiting for the moment Jack exposes his web of lies: "He's a human lie detector - he lives to sniff out stuff like this!"

Jack and Bernie also suffer their fair share of embarrassment and there is a nice rivalry between the Byrnes' cat Jinx and the Fockers' beloved pooch Moses.

For the most part, Meet The Fockers recycles the same formula before the obligatory happy ever after.

It's fun, though rarely hysterical, but it's difficult to see how the scriptwriters can stretch out the premise for a family reunion.

Rating: 6/10