Ben Stiller and
Robert De Niro are reprising their roles as Greg ****er and Jack Byrnes, respectively, in the fourth movie. The first film, released in 2000, saw Greg meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time ahead of a planned marriage proposal and making one terrible impression after another. Adding to the comedic anxiety of the situation was the fact that Jack, the future father-in-law, was a retired CIA operative.
Details are still largely under wraps on the plot of the fourth movie, but producer Jane Rosenthal told
Variety in a recent cover story, "Stiller is now the same age that [De Niro] was when we did the first one, and his kids have grown up, and they have to come home and meet the parents."
It is horrifyingly true. De Niro was 57 in 2000 and Stiller is 59 now.