'Meet The Parents'

It's a mystery to me as to why Meet the Parents is included on this list of the best films of all time.

It's poorly acted full of slapstick, predictable humor with a hodgepodge of funny jokes. It was highly successful and it spawned two sequels, neither of which I've seen, but I've only heard bad things about them.

It's not signficant. It's not the funniest movie. There's no breakthroughs in film making outside of insinuating that a cat can use a toilet.

The film does mark the downfall of Robert DeNiro's career. He's done stinkers the last decade, but this one might take the cake. You have to think he would've turned this down in 1979.

Two noteworthy items: The sister who is getting married and his smacked in the face with Ben Stiller's water volleyball spike, died five years after the film's release due to pneumonia. She was 30. Apparently, it was misdiagnosed until the point doctors couldn't do anything.

Also, the MPAA forced producers to prove there were actual people with the last name "Focker" before they would allow Stiller's character to have the perpetual zinger of a surname. Apparently, somewhere, there's at least one person with the last name "Focker."