Meet The Parents
This reversed “remake” of Father of the Bride is much better than that. It truly is hilarious, but not in a shallow way, it has more depth in most of its characters.
This time, the parents of the bride are truly aristos, while our groom to be is a lowly male nurse. The rest of the doctors in the house literally laugh in his face, they are THAT snobs.
The mother is a sweet little housewife, like Edith from All in the Family, but the father is the upper-class Archie Bunker. He’s a retired spook, but of course with the Company, there’s no such thing as “retired”.
They are the kind of blue-blooded liberal that lives in upstate New York, the lower-class aristos. Not important enough to live in the DMV, but no rabble either. One of those single-digit millionaires.
The middle class guy and the upper class twit get along like water and oil, they immediately butt heads, and our protagonist’s humiliation continues unabated, especially when he actually tries to fight back.
The protagonist has excuses: the airline lost his bag, he cannot smoke, and is trying to find the right place to pop the question to his girlfriend.
My only criticism is that it resolves the plot a little bit too soon. It could use some extra time for them to reflect, maybe make the plane ride back to Chicago early in the morning instead, so they could all sleep on it?
I didn’t know this was a remake of some ultra low budget obscure thing.
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