The family-friendly film avoids pitfalls, but the DVD is skimpy.
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
Reviews for My Big Fat Greek Wedding
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!
...Captures the nature of true romance, with just enough slapstick (a Greek invention) to make you laugh out loud.
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.
Es un entrañable filme sobre el amor, la familia, las tradiciones, la consecución de los sueños y la tolerancia.'
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.
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...
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.
Although films of this flavor depend primarily on their comic timing to win over an audience, director Joel Zwick finds other outlets of brilliance...
When Vardalos tries to pass one-joke stereotypes and situations as revelatory characterizations and experiences, it simply doesn’t achieve anything noteworthy.
Moderadamente divertida, se gana verla, al menos en video, quizá con pitas en vez de pizzas..
My Big Fat Greek Wedding uses stereotypes in a delightful blend of sweet romance and lovingly dished out humor.
There is nothing subtle or original about this film, but it is well-intentioned and cute.
Warm, familiar, not a sharp edge in sight, this movie is built to please.
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