If Ben Stiller's Greg Focker had a lot to worry about in "Meet the Parents," he's nearly paralyzed with anxiety in the follow-up to that 2000 hit. The first film's hilarity flowed naturally from the brilliant comic tension between Stiller's out-of-his-element lone Jew and De Niro, but here the story -- again scripted by Jim Herzfeld and John Hamburg -- feels jammed into a sitcom-shaped bid for laughs. With its surfeit of sex and toilet jokes, "Meet the Fockers" tries too hard, and the gags never hit the heights of "Parents' " most unpredictable moments.

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