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Summary: My side hurts I laughed so hard!
Review: I never knew Windex was so useful! You'll relate to this movie I guarantee it! Whether you come from a big family or are an only child, this movie is definitely you! Not only myself, but everyone I went to see this movie with (I went 7 times!) found a character in this movie that was the perfect reincarnation of us! Are you the Windex-totin' father, or the boob-adjusting daughter, or maybe the machismo brother?.... I guarantee your somewhere in this movie!!...find out! This movie is going to go down in Hollywood history as a classic, up there with the Princess Bride!! Great stuff!
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Summary: Hmmm?
Review: Well my sister and I thought that this movie ws pretty bad. i mean we didnt like the whole plot or the humor. Although evveryone else liked it we didnt think it was that great of a movie....
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Summary: Obnoxious, Not Believable
Review: Do people actually live like this? Are there really people like this? I felt sorry for the guy's parents. Instead of laughing at their confusion and discomfort, I felt for them. Anyone who has not seen this movie yet, please trust me, rent it first before you buy it. You may wind up rewinding before you finish the movie and returning it as fast as you can. I saw it at the movies, and I was looking forward to seeing it. I was so disappointed. The girl never got that much better looking. I never could believe John Corbett's character would fall for her. There was no real chemistry between them. In real life, John Corbett would not look twice at this girl, and it came across in the movie. I can understand how Greek-Americans, or Italians, people whose ethnic background may resemble this movie, could like this movie. No, on second thought, I can't. I can't understand how anyone would like this movie. It got on my nerves so bad I can't convey it in words. These people were obnoxious. I also agree with another reviewer that this movie is insulting to WASPS
(white anglo saxon protestants) or maybe even white anglo catholics, for all I know. WASPS wouldn't be hanging their mouths open in surprise and confusion, they would be quietly uncomfortable and graciously take their leave as quickly as possible. This movie just wanted to make the WASPS look like uptight protestants, while the Greeks were just real down to earth people. These people were not down-to-earth to me. They acted obnoxious and crazy.
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Summary: Warm humor and irony.
Review: I suppose every one on the planet has heard of this movie by now: a Greek girl named Toula grows up to become a hardworking woman suffocating under her strong Greek family's traditions and values; she begins a belated process of personal growth, going to college and sneaking out for dates, to her parent's horror, while she's only slightly middle-aged.
Toula meets a WASP vegetarian professor who's parents are so dignified they are practically dead. Because she loves her family and her WASP professor, Toula's able to let us see the humorous side of all them, and herself, without being mean.
That may the movie's greatest seller of all, that it manages to be funny without being hurtful or crude. In this age when even the people at Disney seem to think that bodily functions are funny (I thought every kid over the age of 8 was supposed to have outgrown that) this movie is refreshing.
The other refreshing part was that this was a movie about people willing to make sacrifices for the people they love. Ultimately, that is what families that work do for each other, and in this movie almost everyone gives up something for the benefit of other people in the family. Toula's parents must give up some of their prejudice; so must her fiance's parents. Her fiance joins the Greek church and is dunked for his baptismal so that Toula's parents can at least have their Greek wedding. Toula must give up, among other things, self-pity and self-loathing to allow herself to be loved.
I suppose there may be people in this country who have not been subjected to family pressures. Those ten people shouldn't buy this.
Now, about the DVD. You get both wide-screen and full-screen in the set. YES! You also get a chance to see subtitles in four languages including, what else?, Greek!
You also get some biographies of some of the characters in the movie, but that's all. I guess we're all kind of spoiled, and would have liked some "extras". But at least we did get the wide and full screen thing and all those subtitles....
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Summary: Totally satisfying
Review: This movie has all the elements of a perfect love story.
The two main characters engage the viewer almost immediately and make you really like them and care about them.
The timing is wonderful and the casting is flawless.
Even non Greeks will come around !!
This movie had me smiling (or laughing) all the way through it and I'm normally not a pushover.
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Summary: My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Review: I'll keep this sweet and simple. This was a completly adorible movie.
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Summary: A nice cultural romantic comedy
Review: I felt this movie was just perfect. I have seen it several times in the theater taking different people..(I took my husband and male friend and they loved it!) I feel the movie is a change of pace from the usual romantic comedies. I loved the way Nia Vardalos portrayed her family and life without going overboard with unnecessary details. I also thought the movie was tastefully made with almost no cursing and without heavy duty sex scenes.
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Summary: One of the Best of 2002
Review: Now called the greatest romantic comedy of all time, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" certainly deserves that distinction. The story revolves around Toula Portokalos, a young Greek woman who is not happy merely working at her family's restaurant. Her entire life changes when she makes a decision to go back to college and latter meets Ian Miller, an English teacher she begins to fall in love with. While her family is at first not thrilled with Toula dating someone who is not Greek, they do finally accept him. After Ian proposes, an assortment of misadventures occur as they prepare for their wedding. This film is defiantly one of the funniest that I have seen in years. It has a great story, great characters and acting (particularly by Nia Vardalos as Toula and Michael Constantine as her father Gus) and some of the most hilarious antics the silver screen may have ever seen in decades, many of which, according to the DVD's audio commentary, are true! This is a must have for any DVD collection.
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Summary: Entertaining Movie, but there's something missing
Review: There's lots of drama and comedy in this movie, said to be more or less autobiographic of its lead actress, Nia Vardalos. The character she plays in the movie is named Toula. She comes from a very traditional Greek-American family, her father being especially firmly rooted in Greek ways. He's subject to going bonkers at the thought of his daughter not marrying a Greek person. But Toula is a daughter with much more of a mind of her own than her father expects. She first wants to pursue an education and make a life for herself other than as a waitress in the family restaurant. Such goals constitute a family crisis in the eyes of some of her family, but especially her father. But she pursues her goals, despite her father's crisis, and along the way she meets and falls in love with a guy after all. As fate would have -- yes, you guessed it, he isn't Greek. Getting her family to accept the idea of her marrying him will occupy much of the plot. A lot of the story is presumably realistic but with a good dose of laughter. Maybe a sort of comic licence justifies some departure from absolute realism. One thing I had trouble finding believable is how Toula starts out in an awkward, sometimes nearly catatonic, state, then suddenly transforms to one with vivacious grace on finding that the guy of her affections is attracted to her too. Once that happens, what follows is a touching and humorous insight into the process of family acceptance and the "culture shock" in bringing the bride's and groom's families together, the latter being mainfested especially poignantly in the groom's "waspish" parents. The bride and groom decide her family (and especially her father, of course) just couldn't bear being deprived of the full-scale big traditional Greek wedding for their daughter. That means being maried in the Greek Orthodox Church, which in turn means the groom must become a member thereof. His baptism into the church then becomes a key episode in the movie. So while the movie is rich in insight into the clash of cultures brought on by this union of two people of different backgrounds, being baptised into a new church is a religious event, and that is what the movie seems to skip over lightly. No insight seems to be given into what new religious outlooks the groom is buying into by joining a church new to him. Seems a vital part of what one would be concerned with in joining a new church, in order to be married there, or for any other reason. But the movie doesn't seem to treat that as relevant. The new things that the groom and his family become acquainted with include cuisine and drink, importance of extended family in the Greek community, and children's attendance at Greek school. The latter is not shown in the movie to have a specifically religious dimension; about the only characteistic of Greek school portrayed is study of the Greek language. Seems the religious dimension would be a major concern to anyone considering joining a new church in order to marry there. But the movie strictly seems to regard that as no big deal. Is that because the groom's religious background and the attudes of his new church have enough in common that the transition really is no big deal as far as the religious dimension is concerned? If so, the movie doesn't make that clear either. It is said at one point that the bride's family is "very relogious" while the groom's family is not. But no specifics of that religion are hinted at, nor is any indication of what degree of new religious duty that places on the groom.
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Summary: Yasou! Great job on this movie.
Review: This movie kept me in stitches throughout. I come from a Greek background and certainly relate to this movie. Although some of it was exaggerated for entertainment purposes, it was very authentic and true to life. Michael Constantine's accent was right on the money as well as his performance. Lanie Kazan was great in this movie. The music was wonderful and story line enchanting. It is a must see.
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