Greg Focker is about to propose to his girlfriend Pam, but the approval of Pam's dad is vital to a positive reply; Unfortunately for Greg, Pa can't stand him, and a weekend at the parents that starts off badly, has plenty of time to get infinitely worse. Meet The Parents is class slapstick, our doomed hero stumbling from one unforgivable disaster to the next, his constant attempts to ingratiate the root of all his misery, and anyone unlucky enough to be nearby.