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My Big Fat Greek Wedding

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

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Reviews Counted:121

Fresh:91

Rotten:30

Average Rating:6.7/10

Consensus: Though it sometimes feels like a television sitcom, My Big Fat Greek Wedding is good-hearted and lovable.

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: “Nice Greek girls are expected to do three things: Marry Greek boys, make Greek babies and feed everyone until the day we die.” Toula Portokalos Everyone in the Portokalos family worries about... “Nice Greek girls are expected to do three things: Marry Greek boys, make Greek babies and feed everyone until the day we die.” Toula Portokalos Everyone in the Portokalos family worries about Toula (NIA VARDALOS). Still unmarried at 30-years-old, she works at Dancing Zorba’s, the Greek restaurant owned by her parents, Gus (MICHAEL CONSTANTINE) and Maria (LAINIE KAZAN) and smells like garlic bread. Vowing that she’d rather stab herself in the eye with a red-hot poker than work in the restaurant for the rest of her life, Toula is ready for a change. Unfortunately, the rest of her family is not. After taking a job at her aunt’s travel agency, she falls in love with Ian Miller (JOHN CORBETT), a high school teacher who is tall, handsome and definitely not Greek. Toula isn’t sure which will be more upsetting to her old-fashioned father, that Ian is a Xeno (foreigner) or that he’s a vegetarian. But none of it matters once he asks her to marry him. Toula knows that if he can pass muster with her crazy relatives and get baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church...their big fat Greek wedding, including one powder blue limousine, two ice sculptures and ten bridesmaids in turquoise dresses, will be a piece of cake, five layers high with a plastic staircase and a fountain of champagne. -- © 2002 IFC Films [More]

Starring: Nia Vardalos, Louis Mandylor, Gia Carides, John Corbett

Starring: Nia Vardalos, Louis Mandylor, Gia Carides, John Corbett, Joey Fatone, Andrea Martin, Lainie Kazan, Bruce Gray

Director: Joel Zwick

Director: Joel Zwick
Screenwriter: Nia Vardalos
Producer: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Rita Wilson
Composer: Alexander Djanko, Chris Wilson
Studio: IFC Films

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The family-friendly film avoids pitfalls, but the DVD is skimpy.

Full Review Source: Reno Gazette-Journal | comment Comment
02/17/03
Mark Robison
Mark Robison
Reno Gazette-Journal

Now, Nia Vardalos will jump out of your movie screen or television set...and club you over the head with a bottle of Windex until you give in to her aggressively overbearing humor!

Full Review Source: AboutFilm.com | comment 1 Comment
02/08/03
Carlo Cavagna
Carlo Cavagna
AboutFilm.com

...Captures the nature of true romance, with just enough slapstick (a Greek invention) to make you laugh out loud.

Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | comment Comment
02/08/03
John R. McEwen
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online

The actors...bring out an attractive, warmhearted simplicity in each character. Above all, they portray a close, loving family, the film's ultimate and lasting virtue.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
01/28/03
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

Es un entrañable filme sobre el amor, la familia, las tradiciones, la consecución de los sueños y la tolerancia.'

Full Review Source: Moviola | comment Comment
01/27/03
Jorge Avila Andrade
Jorge Avila Andrade
Moviola

A cute little movie whose success proves that wherever they can find it, people will rise up and embrace the most mediocre, bland, and reassuring forms of art.

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01/16/03
Blake Davis
Blake Davis
KFOR Channel 4 News

Almost everyone growing up believes their family must look like "The Addams Family" to everyone looking in... "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" comes from the heart...

Full Review Source: MovieCrypt.com | comment Comment
01/08/03
Kevin A. Ranson
Kevin A. Ranson
MovieCrypt.com

On the whole, this film didn't make me laugh much, didn't make me 'aaaaaah' much and didn't give me any more insight into its astronomical popularity.

Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | comment 1 Comment
01/02/03
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12/30/02
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

Although films of this flavor depend primarily on their comic timing to win over an audience, director Joel Zwick finds other outlets of brilliance...

Full Review Source: Cinemaphile.org | comment Comment
12/27/02
David Keyes
David Keyes
Cinemaphile.org

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12/17/02
Rebecca Murray
Rebecca Murray
About.com

When Vardalos tries to pass one-joke stereotypes and situations as revelatory characterizations and experiences, it simply doesn’t achieve anything noteworthy.

Full Review Source: Mark Reviews Movies | comment Comment
12/16/02
Mark Dujsik
Mark Dujsik
Mark Reviews Movies

Moderadamente divertida, se gana verla, al menos en video, quizá con pitas en vez de pizzas..

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12/15/02
Alex Ramirez
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12/08/02
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11/26/02
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

My Big Fat Greek Wedding uses stereotypes in a delightful blend of sweet romance and lovingly dished out humor.

Full Review Source: CinemaBlend.com | comment Comment
11/22/02
Joshua Tyler
Joshua Tyler
CinemaBlend.com
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11/20/02
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11/06/02
Jeff Strickler
Jeff Strickler
Minneapolis Star Tribune

There is nothing subtle or original about this film, but it is well-intentioned and cute.

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10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
Jean Lowerison
San Diego Metropolitan

Warm, familiar, not a sharp edge in sight, this movie is built to please.

Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | comment Comment
10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer
 
 
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