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Summary: Not half bad..
Review: Good production values, good acting and a fairly interesting storyline. A guy can actually sit through this and not be bored to death and will laugh at the legitimately funny parts. Surprised the heck out of me too.
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Summary: It's About Time!
Review: Finally, a good clean family movie! I hope that the success of this film makes Hollywood take note! We need more films like this one! Nia Vardalos is a breath of fresh air, and I wish her much success!
The commentary by Nia Vardalos, John Corbett and Joel Swick that's contained on the DVD were a pleasant surprise!
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Summary: Boring "comedy", and an ugly actress.
Review: One of the most boring "comedies" I have ever seen. The subject is the cultural differences, and that's it. It has some minor parts that can be funny, but it does not make it. It's a romantic comedy, that ends with the marriage of the american and the greek girl (that is really ugly) and he quits to his cultural formation for her. Yeah, I know, It's another one of those movies. It has had way to much publicity, and that has make it famous, but overall deserves a big D-.
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Summary: Pure Entertainment!
Review: "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is an hilarious film drawing fun out of the culture clash between the family of Toula (Nia Vardalos) and Ian Miller (John Corbett). Toula's family, which exudes every ethnic stereotype imaginable, bewilders Ian's family as the courtship and wedding preparations proceed. In the end they all blend into one, big happy, Greek (?) family.Jumping from scene, this film, without taxing your mind, is pure entertainment. I don't want to spoil it for you. Just watch and enjoy!
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Summary: Go rent "Barefoot In the Park" instead
Review: I bought this DVD on the strength of word-of-mouth recommendations. From people I trust, yet. I still don't get it. I invited some women friends over for a night of "great hilarity" but we only laughed mildly a few times. Mostly we were baffled at the formulaic quality of the story - a la 1950s type TV stereotypes. Ms. Vardalos isn't old enough for the dated behaviors of her family. How they manage to remain so unware of changes in American culture since the 1950s vis a vis: hair dos, vegetarianism, women's emancipation, room decor, etc., etc is beyond me. I haven't seen custom plastic covered furniture like that since the 1960s. Even as exaggeration for effect, this was really heavy-handed and clumsy. I wonder that Greek Americans weren't offended, let alone the author's family. First of all, Ms. Vardalos' "epiphany" consists of seeing some handsome guy across the crowded room of her Dad's restaurant. For 30 years she has had no interest in looking or acting like a person other than what her Dad wants. Her sister is a hair stylist (hideous 1950s hair) but still Nia has no interest in a hair cut before Ian. Once she sees him, she just bursts into a frenzy of fixing herself up, losing weight, going to school and getting a job outside the family restaurant - where have we seen this before 100 times already? About which transformation, not a single family member comments. Yeah, right. Only the problem is that once she does all that, blossoms and so forth, she still lies constantly to her parents about her romantic life. In the end she does not express a single independent idea about her own freaking wedding - the supposed culmination of her life's effort. The worst aspect was the demeaning treament of the male characters. Ian came off as some guy on a major valium trip who'd roll over for just about anything Ms. Vardalos or her family asked of him. Her father is pathetic and all the other men are stupid and ineffective. In the end, it's considered a miracle of acceptance when her Dad buys her and Ian a home. Like I'd let anybody home shop for me, let alone a guy with a single conversational topic who lets his alzhemer-suffering mother wander about the neighborhood at will. But this home purchase makes up the postscript joke I won't give away. Suffice it to say, it fits right in there with the rest of the script - stupid and frustrating and unfunny. If this was supposed to be parodic humor, it could have been done much, much better than this. I hope to recoup some money for the DVD at a garage sale.
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Summary: Pretty funny and a bit touching.
Review: Summary:
Fotoula 'Toula' Portokalos (Nia Vardalos) has always been ostracized because she is Greek. When she hits 30 she decides to do something about it. So she does something about her appearance, gets some education, and gets a new job. That's when she meets Ian Miller (John Corbett (I)). They hit it off from the beginning and then have to negotiate how to tell Toula's family and get her family to accept Ian. My Comments:
I actually saw one episode of the TV series before I watched the movie and was worried it was going to be horrible. But I was pleasantly surprised. In the TV series, Nia had no comic presentation. In the movie, most everyone was very good. The story was fun, though not particularly surprising. They meet, fall in love, and get married, no twists, no surprises. The couple loves each other and don't ever seem to fight. Perhaps it is a bit too surreal, but the Portokalos family makes up for the ordinary by being a bit extraordinary. Overall, the movie isn't laugh out loud funny, but it has its moments. And what it lacks in humor it does make up in being touching in showing how loving and accepting families can be. Admittedly the 'Greekness' was a bit over the top and some times people can be a little embarrassed of their family/heritage, but it was still entertaining. It is a pretty fun romantic comedy.
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Summary: Creative and funny!
Review: This movie was great. It is fun for almost the whole family. I would recommend it! If you haven't seen it, you don't know what your missing! Great for spent the night partys!
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Summary: YES IT'S GREAT BUT...
Review: I guess everything I had heard about this film from friends, critics, talk shows, and all the rest of the Media, made me anticipate being totally blown away by it. Well, I wasn't. I really enjoyed it, and it was definitely "cute", but I've seen lots of other films that really did blow me away compared to this one.
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Summary: My Big Fat Review of Why This Movie [is not good].
Review: First of all, I got dragged to this film by my girlfriend and her friend. I was ok with this though because some people told me it was funny. It was not funny at all. The whole ethnic comedy thing is so overused and I swear if I see one more movie about a wedding I'm going to go nuts. Basically, this movie got a lot of hype and good reviews by mouth but it failed to impress me. I'd rent it first if I were you.
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Summary: Big Fat Overrated Wedding
Review: This movie was beyond overrated and I have no idea why everyone was ranting and raving over it. What is so fascinating about being "Greek"? They put so much emphasis on the Greek issue it was like they were begging for acceptance or something. Just be proud of who you are. I also think this movie was sending the message that if you marry someone "non-ethnic" and blonde and blue eyed that your whole life will magically improve and be complete. Yeah, whatever. None of the dialogue was funny, and in fact, this movie was sincerely boring. Maybe this truely is a "chic flick". I don't know of any men that would like this movie and if there is, I would be very surprised. I hope the new TV show based on the movie is more entertaining than this thing!
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