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My Big Fat Greek Wedding : 2002
Wednesday, 1/15/03, 3:45 am
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If you lived in America this year, you?ve heard of ?My Big Fat Greek Wedding?. It?s a Cinderella story. Nia Vardalos wrote a play. Rita Wilson (wife of Tom Hanks) sees the play in LA and falls in love with it. She takes steps to produce the play as a movie even going so far as to agree to star Vardalos in it. This little independent movie with a $5 million dollar budget ultimately went on to achieve a $230 million domestic gross.
So the big question: Should it have?
It?s a cute romantic comedy. Nia Vardalos plays Toula Portokalos a Greek woman of about thirty who is yet to marry. To her family, this is a huge issue. All hope is lost, she?ll never marry. She?ll work at the family diner for all her entire life. All to quickly she meets Ian Miller (John Corbett). All too quickly they fall in love and get engaged. The bulk of the movie and nearly all of the comedy comes from the Portokalos family?s treatment of Ian and the fact that he?s not Greek.
?My Big Fat Greek Wedding? is a run-of-the-mill romantic comedy. Girl meets boy. They fall in love. There?s a problem. Problem gets resolved. They live happily ever after. The only exceptional aspect of this movie (apart from the story of its success) is Andrea Martin. She plays Toula?s aunt, Voula. There is a lot of humor implied by Toula?s family, but only in Aunt Voula is the potential actually realized.
So my answer: no.
?My Big Fat Greek Wedding? is average, only propelled to above average through exceptional circumstance, not through impressive comedy or story.
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If you lived in America this year, you?ve heard of ?My Big Fat Greek Wedding?. It?s a Cinderella story. Nia Vardalos wrote a play. Rita Wilson (wife of Tom Hanks) sees the play in LA and falls in love with it. She takes steps to produce the play as a movie even going so far as to agree to star Vardalos in it. This little independent movie with a $5 million dollar budget ultimately went on to achieve a $230 million domestic gross.
So the big question: Should it have?
It?s a cute romantic comedy. Nia Vardalos plays Toula Portokalos a Greek woman of about thirty who is yet to marry. To her family, this is a huge issue. All hope is lost, she?ll never marry. She?ll work at the family diner for all her entire life. All to quickly she meets Ian Miller (John Corbett). All too quickly they fall in love and get engaged. The bulk of the movie and nearly all of the comedy comes from the Portokalos family?s treatment of Ian and the fact that he?s not Greek.
?My Big Fat Greek Wedding? is a run-of-the-mill romantic comedy. Girl meets boy. They fall in love. There?s a problem. Problem gets resolved. They live happily ever after. The only exceptional aspect of this movie (apart from the story of its success) is Andrea Martin. She plays Toula?s aunt, Voula. There is a lot of humor implied by Toula?s family, but only in Aunt Voula is the potential actually realized.
So my answer: no.
?My Big Fat Greek Wedding? is average, only propelled to above average through exceptional circumstance, not through impressive comedy or story.