My Big Fat Greek Wedding
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Movie Reviews of My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Movie Review: EVEN THE GODS OF OLYMPUS WOULD LAUGH
Summary: 5 Stars
I have seen movies over the years that state: "The funniest movie in years" or "You'll laugh so hard..." But this little sleeper had me in laughing all the way through. Trust me when I tell you: "IT IS THE FUNNIEST MOVIE IN YEARS." Almost everyone can relate to a having a weird family; and you do not have to be Greek.Nia Vardalos was devine as Toula; the 30 year old Greek frumpy girl who has no life and lives for her family's business. John Corbett was charming and handsome as Ian Miller, a well educated professor who lives a good life. The two meet in her parents' restaurant but not knowing who each other are. She is totally in love with him. She starts to change her whole outlook by going to school and changing her physical appearance.
Toula has a very strict family code. A Greek girl must marry a Greek man to make Greek babies. Unfortunately Ian is not Greek. Regardless, she manages to fall in love with him.
Lainie Kazan is grand as the "dame" of the house. As she put it: "The man is the head and the woman is the neck; and the woman can turn the head any way she wants to."
Just prior to the wedding, you will find yourself laughing. During Ian's "baptism" into the Greek religion, you will realize how much people are willing to do for love.
Joey Fatone's part was minimal but he was good. I thought he was Italian.
The movie can be viewed as "anyone's family". Everyone thinks their family is weird.
I would love to see this film again. I laughed so much and it was worth the money.
Go out and see this.
Movie Review: Is It True that Windex Can Heal Any Cut?
Summary: 5 Stars
Since this movie looked so good in the coming attractions, off I went to see it asap. VERY funny! It's a sort of "Moonstruck" about Greek-Americans--folk ways and family relationships exhibited for all to see. Toula has always been self-concious about her Greek heritage, but can't seem to find a way out. She lives at home and works in the family restaurant, Dancing Zorba. Both her aunt (Angela Martin) and her mother (Lanie Kazan)are flamboyant women making vats of food. Michael Constantine is a stand-out as the father who believes that any cut can be treated with Windex (I thought it was very funny that no matter where you looked in the house, there was a bottle of Windex lurking somewhere). And then, out of the blue, into Toula's life comes Ian Miller, a sort of lite Kevin Sorbo. In time, she bucks her father's resistance and takes a computer class at a nearby college, and before you know it, in go the contact lenses and on come the lots more attractive wardrobe, so that the next time she sees that Ian guy, she's prepared. From there, you can figure out what going to happen: after all, it IS called "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", isn't it?
My only criticism about the movie would be its lack of conflict. I kept expecting Toula to have a fight with her fiance Ian, but this never happened. I mean, even Liz Taylor had a fight with her fiance in "Father of the Bride"!
But that's a relatively small quibble for such a funny movie. Go take in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and have yourself a good laugh.
Movie Review: 5 Stars Because It's Delightful!
Summary: 5 Stars
Sure, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" is not a cinematic event...the plot has virtually no serious conflict, and the movie is really a series of gags built on one delightful theme...the craziness of ethnic families, proud of their heritage.Rita Wilson, with help from husband Tom Hanks, engineered the making of this film. From a biographical original screenplay by Nia Vardalos, who plays herself in the film, as Toulah, the ugly duckling daughter of a boisterous Greek family, Wilson got the film made with an original limited release to only a few screens in major cities. Audience reaction caused the studio to think again, and remarket it to all theaters. MBFGW will be one of the few films that survives the whole summer on the big screen.
Vardalos has crafted a plot and sight and sound gags that keep you chuckling throughout the film. Add to the mix John Corbett, every woman in America's dream man since he played Aidan in "Sex and the City", and you've got a winner.
I was exceptionally happy to see the wonderful Michael Constantine and Laine Kazan, small screen performers of old, in terrific new roles, and terrifically funny! Andrea Martin - the zany alumnus of Saturday Night Live, gets lots of laughs as the crazy aunt. My favorite site gag in the movie, however, is the repetitive shots of the front of Toulah's home, complete with carefully placed Greek statuary.
There've not been many quirky, feel good films to rival MBFGW in recent years. Go see it and celebrate your own crazy family!
Movie Review: Mixed Marriages: Heaven and Hell on Earth!
Summary: 5 Stars
Let me join the chorus of approval for what started out as a small movie and ended up, deservedly, a huge hit. I'm from a mixed marriage, Italian (mother) and New England WASP (father). The only difference here is that the materfamilias half is Greek. Small difference. The huge difference is always how emotional, loud and overwhelming the ethnic end is and how restrained, cool, controlled and underwhelming the WASP end is. This film captures that difference perfectly. It is safe to say that the big attraction for the WASP end of the couple is getting away from the emotionally stultifying world he inhabits. John Corbett (from "Sex and the City") is marvelous as Ian in that role. Actually, this role isn't very different from that tv role but he does that kind of role extremely well and you couldn't ask for a more attractive, beguiling leading man. He may lack range as an actor but that's not a problem here. Nia Vardalos, the leading lady, comes to film from comedy plus she also wrote the screenplay. She is wonderful as the ethnic daughter who has to deal with her volatile family upon announcing that she is going to marry a non-Greek. All hell breaks out. Great as Corbett and Vardalos are, this movie is almost stolen right underneath them by Michael Constantine as the father. He is the family member who has the hardest time accepting a mixed marriage and he is both hilarious and touching every step of the way. The rest of the supporting cast is all top notch as well.Movie Review: The Sleeper Hit of the Summer!
Summary: 5 Stars
Nia Vardalos and John Corbett star in this heartwarming comedy about love, marriage, and. . .family! Nia Vardalos stars in a role she wrote for herself while working at SecondCity - as Tula, a thirty-something Greek woman who has no life and desperately wants one. Her parents, meanwhile, want her to marry a nice Greek boy, have nice Greek children and cook until the day she dies, although she has different ideas. One day while working at her parent's restaurant, frumpy and miserable, she catches sight of Ian Miller, an English teacher, and instantly sees something in him. After the encounter, she wheedles her way into working at her aunt's travel agency, starts taking classes and gradually develops a social life and gets a (much needed) makeover. Shortly thereafter, Ian and Tula meet again, fall in love, he proposes, and there's only one more obstacle in the way of true love - her Big, Fat, Greek family! Needless to say, they have some objections to her marrying a non-Greek (although the father eventually even finds a way of making Miller greek!) and trouble ensues. The antics of her family are often laugh-out-loud funny, plus there are absorbing characters and some great one-liners to boot.
Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks decided to produce the film (Rita Wilson is herself Greek) and they obviously saw what everyone else is now seeing - a great family comedy that will almost wish you were Greek (if you aren't already!)