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Summary: A Big Fat Celebration of Our Shared Humanity
Review: Like everybody else, I appreciate knowing in advance if a film is poor so I can avoid it; also, I prefer to "discover" an especially enjoyable film rather than hear or read raves about it in advance. This is one of three films I saw for the first time without knowing anything about them, the other two being Good Will Hunting and Bend It Like Beckham. Although I consider none a "great film," I thoroughly enjoyed all three but for different reasons I shall briefly discuss.Directed by Joel Zwick and starring Nia Vardalos (also author and screenwriter) as Toula, with Lainie Kazan (her mother Maria) and Michael Constantine (her father Gus) cast in important supporting roles, this film really could have portrayed any large and loving family's "big fat wedding." Growing up in a multi-ethnic neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, I had numerous opportunities to attend weddings and receptions which were strikingly similar to those portrayed in this film but, of course, I had no idea what was happening as members of both families were involved in preparations. Much of this film's great appeal is probably explained by the fact that so many people can identify with the pre-marriage stresses, temper tantrums, threats, tensions, conflicts, alienations, reconciliations, etc. which author Vardalos and director Zwick examine so brilliantly...and so humorously. Toula works in her family's restaurant, Dancing Zorba, and her "Prince Charming" proves to be a schoolteacher, Ian Miller (John Corbett). They meet, fall in love, and become engaged. So far, so good. However, the cultural differences between her family and his are significant. Adjustments and accommodations are necessary and often hilarious as the wedding day approaches. The film's ending is not merely happy, it is joyous. Refreshingly is the fact that in this film, there is a total absence of cynicism concerning ethnic differences. They are relevant to the story line and revealed with good humor. Those who enjoy this film are urged to check out Moonstruck (1987) and Return to Me (2000) in which ethnic and cultural values are also celebrated with style, grace, and exuberance.
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Summary: A Big Fat Delighful Movie!
Review: My sister rented my Big Fat Greek Wedding on DVD and we both liked the movie and I'm thinking of buying the movie on DVD for my collection. Nia Vardalos is a very good actress/writer and John Corbett who is a major hottie is great actor too and also good are Lainie Kazan, Andrea Martin and John Constantine and I just highly recommend that you buy or rent this movie and watch it! I'm a girl who loves romantic movies and I just might buy the DVD someday!
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Summary: Funny
Review: Overall this movie is quite funny and well done, but has that Hollywood vibe, whether that is good or bad is your opinion. I liked it, but it's not one of those movies I want to watch more than twice.
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Summary: Wat, he don't eat no meat?
Review: Simple comedies with a human story have the chance to become a classic movie. Let's remember 'Moonstruck', another one of these comedies that have living life in two cultures as its story. And if you are having a good laugh, you are laughing at yourself.
And if you can laugh at yourself in this movie, it deserves all 5 stars.
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Summary: Big Fat Disappointement
Review: Everyone was raving about how funny this movie is, so naturally I went to see it. It was a Big, Fat disappointment. It had some funny parts, yes, but not enough funny parts. The movie was very slow moving and it took about 30 minutes for the plot to pick up. A lot of the humor was not witty stuff, but slap stick visual kind of stuff, like people falling and getting sick because they drink too much. The family has a lot of Greek steriotypes and things that don't make sense in it. I guess that's the point, but I don't really find it that amusing, especially since points are really exagerated. I did not find the baptismal in the swimming pool to be funny. Kind of sacreligious if you think about it- making fun of a religious event. I wanted to like this movie, but it was just too boring. A lot of things happened that did not add to the plot. This movie could have been really funny, but it wasn't written very well. Find family entertainment elsewhere.
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Summary: *yawn*
Review: After hearing all about this being a 'surprise box office hit' I watched it with high expectations-WAY too high. The beginning was ok. But after she met the man of her dreams, had all these problems about him with her family she just got to marry him. Just like that. After all this fuss. And then you wait some more for the other big problem to come up. And it never comes. She happily marries and has a kid and lets it marry whoever she wants. The End. Well, so much for that.
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Summary: A Very Greek Wedding
Review: If you are in the mood for a nice and relaxing evening in front of the TV, this is worth considering. I was not that excited about watching this movie when I saw the cinema trailers, but I decided to see it after hearing friends talking about it. My expectations were fairly low, and I was pleasantly surprised to discover a nicely done comedy about cultural differences. I am fairly familiar with Greek culture, and so I can vouch for the way Greek language and culture are interpreted here. Even the few small bits of Greek spoken in the film are correct. And it gives some insights into the lives of Greeks, who are in general funny, open, and friendly people. The film even has a serious side (albeit one presented in a humorous context): the fact that cultural differences are almost everywhere and they should be taken into consideration in our work and every-day lives.
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Summary: Kakos Kinimatografos (Bad Film)
Review: My Big Fat Greek Wedding should have been titled My Big Fat Boring Movie. Lacking any creativity, laughs, style or fun, Wedding stands apart from the rest of the year's films as 2002's major ode to mediocrity. Following a stale plot device, a typical wallflower from a Greek family (a family filled with every wornout cliché imaginable) comes into her own, woos a WASP and then tries to commingle the oh-so-different Greek family and her beau's stodgy upbringing. Think Moonstruck but without good writing, acting, directing, pacing or storytelling. Star, writer and all around listless "actress" Nia Vardalos transformed her play of the same concept into a film at the urging of the king of banality and his wife, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Hanks. It shouldn't come as a shock that the Hanks' brood would help push something this predictable and unoriginal on the public. What is amazing is that more critics haven't come forward to ask why people still make movies with such witless gags (oozo makes people drunk, those kooky Greeks cooking a goat on the lawn). How about stereotypical characters galore? The WASP parents are naturally stiff and look like an advertisement for the Republican Party. The Greeks? Oh dad loves his little girl, mistrusts non-Greeks, likes to have a good party and naturally doesn't believe women should be educated. Mom? Oh she runs the family business cleverly manipulating her boorish husband. How about a wacky Greek grandma always looking for Turks? Got it. Really, every possible stereotype and old-hat character design pops up. Devoid of clever plotting, dialogue or fully formed characters, Vardalos' writing talent remains as much as mystery as the film's green light for production. Vardalos acting consists of make up to get her to appear frumpy and then more makeup to make us believe she might be mildly attractive. Impressive, if one never asked her to react or emote. But the script demands it and Vardalos doesn't come through in the least. John Corbett appears as the boyfriend and he's got as little charisma now as he did 10 years ago on the far too quirky "Northern Exposure." The rest of the cast is as forgettable as the leads and the all-too-familiar white guy hooking up with nutty foreigners plotting. My Big Fat Greek Wedding might have been entertaining had the filmmakers bothered to create anything original, engaging or clever. Instead we get a Greek remake of the Salma Hayek/Matthew Perry stinker Fools Rush In. But Vardalos isn't 1/100,000th as amusing, attractive or engaging as Hayek.
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Summary: My big fat wedding
Review: Nia is the best person is this movie. Josh is the other best part anfd they are a great couple
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Summary: Gets better every time!
Review: I've seen this movie a dozen times and each time I like it better. It's the story of a homely Greek woman from a stifling family who finally decides to come out of her shell and ends up falling in love with a non-Greek, much to her father's dismay. The stuff that happens after is just classic. I laughed my tail off during this movie, the characters are just so unique and funny to watch. I'm sure some of it is exaggerated, but so what? That's what movies are all about. :) Anyways, I love it - finally bought it on DVD so I can watch it whenever I want! I can't comment on the DVD quality though - haven't peeked at any special features yet.
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