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<BODY bgcolor="#CCCC99"> <font size="2"><p>Movie Review <font size="4"><br>Meet the Parents</font> <br>by Gary Johnson</font> <P><font size="6"><b>D</b></font>irector Jay Roach's reputation has been built through his collaborations with Mike Myers. The Austin Powers movies were filled with comedy that consciously strained for laughs. In these films, the process of straining for laughs became <i>the joke</i>. But unlike the Farrelly brothers, for example, who have worked exclusively within this hyperbolic form of comedy (e.g. <i>There's Something About Mary</i> and <i>Dumb and Dumber</i>), Jay Roach has shown an interest in more conventional storytelling, as evidenced by last year's relatively sweet <i>Mystery, Alaska</i>. <p><a href="default-nf.htm">Go to the review</a></font> </body>