Meet the Parents and Flirting with Disaster (review)
He used to be an intelligent comic actor with a talent for sublime, deadpan satire — see Zero Effect. But he was too smart for his own good — his self-titled comedy series, The Ben Stiller Show, couldn’t last more than a handful of episodes on the wasteland of network television. So these days, he has transformed himself into a punching-bag straight man with the apparent goal of seeing how far the human body can be abused and the human spirit humiliated on film. He has, sadly, been a huge success with audiences in this effort, and his new movie is sure to further this sorry reputation even further.
