SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Devran ikiz Made in 2002, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding's" box office was around $368 Million. It was a cheerful film and received mostly positive reviews. Purely based on this success, they wanted to suck the film dry by making a sitcom based on the same idea which failed after seven episodes, because there was nothing else left to tell. Here in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2" there are two different stories which are harmonized with the lives of the family after 14 years. If you have seen the original film, you should remember that Ian (John Corbett) and Toula (Nia Vardalos) had a daughter. One side of the story focuses on her and her teenager problems and the other side focuses on the marriage of Toula's mother and father. Toula's father finds out that their marriage paper has never been signed. When Toula's mother learns about this, she demands to get married. After fifty years of being together, they get married as loud as Toula's marriage, like the title suggests. So, the story bounces back and forth between these two main stories and the relation between Ian and Toula. "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2" is still a warm-hearted story with all its sincerity but this is pretty much it. The film doesn't have any purpose anymore. Based on this idea, you can make as many films as possible and, eventually, people will stop seeing them. That being said, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2's" box office dropped drastically from $368 Million to $88.9 Million. People got the idea. They are a big family, they are funny and different and they have strong bonds but that's pretty much it. There is nothing else this family can give to the audience. Each character is easily predictable, which suggests the weakness of the screenplay. When you look carefully, the film has no aim anymore. They are planning a wedding and a lot of funny things are happening along the way. Those funny things are just the different versions of the same jokes from the original film.Cultural differences between Americans and Greeks are more obvious in this one. The film carries the message of the beauty of living together no matter how different we are. In "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2," everyone seems to be leading the film. The pressure over Toula is lifted but she is still struggling to keep everything together. This is time consuming and leads her to neglect her own family. "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2" focuses also on the marriage of Ian and Toula. The film has a lot of directions and the director Kirk Jones manages to keep them all together, but still he can't provide something new or different to the audience, which makes it an average film. It would be perfectly fine if they wouldn't have made the 2nd film. Cultural diversity was the strongest point of the first film. "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2" depends purely on this and fails to bring something on the table. The customs and behaviors are just repeating themselves. This is still tolerable because they are funny, but, once again, they are not new. This is the reason why I wrote above that no one would have missed a 2nd film based on the same idea. Even the locations are the same.Regarding the performances there is nothing new. Like in the first film I like Andrea Martin's acting performance. Andrea Martin's character, Aunt Voula, is a problem solver. She is a person everyone can depend on and one of the most important women in the family. It is an easy role to play but hard to make it perfect. Andrea Martin manages to make it perfect from the way she walks to the way she talks. If this film needs to be saved, she is there to do it. Other than her, I haven't seen a worth mentioning performance because, just like the 1st film, this one is not a character-based film either. This time I have enjoyed the soundtracks. Especially the Greek oriented ones. In most of the scenes I had the feeling that I am watching a European film.Once again, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2" doesn't bring anything new on the table. Watching it is not a waste of time but don't have higher expectations. If you loved the characters and the story in the 1st film then watch this one to see how they are doing after 14 years. Written by Nia Vardalos and produced by Tom Hanks, Rita Wilson and Gary Goetzman, "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2" is a film of happy thoughts and a strong traditional family.

drmitofit The first movie had culture clash, great comedy, and most importantly a major transformation of the lead character. The sequel is also funny and full of awkward too-close family moments, but lacks a major transformation (although Vardalos does looks quite fetching in the restaurant date scene). I would have done a rewrite. Have the mother insist on getting remarried in Greece (the family being more successful and wealthier to afford this). While there in the old country, the daughter (Paris) would appreciate Greek history and culture and see close Greek family ties as being "normal" and maybe even ogling a few cute Greek boys. She would then decide forego NYU and instead attend school in Chigago close to home, thus growing to accept the love of her family in a tear-jerking moment of reciprocated love. That would have been a more transformative and much happier ending to this sequel.

kosmasp I didn't expect it to make so much sense and to feel way more grown up than the original, but it actually achieved a feat that not many other sequels are able to achieve. It did make sense and it was kind of an evolution compared to the first one. They did have 14 years to come up with it and Nia became a parent in that time (and she admits herself, she would not have been able to portray her character in this movie 14 years ago).That's one of the downfalls of the first movie, but something that can be generally said (even for her Some like it hot "remake" with Toni Collette): her acting abilities are limited. But others have succeeded with even less than she can put on screen (see Steven Seagal for that, or better yet: do not!). But back to this and the decent story it builds. Even with a very far stretched story for her parents and lesser time for the side characters, this does work. Even her husband is nothing more than a side note. But it's better that way ...

SquigglyCrunch My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 follows our main characters from the previous movie when they learn that their parents weren't officially married, and how they go about doing this. I have nothing good to say about this movie. Most everything was average, but there were a few things that stood out as exceptionally bad. To start, the movie advertises itself as a comedy, yet it fails to be funny. The parents were minor characters in the previous movie, so we got only a little bit of their humor every once in a while, and thus the humor never got old. But in this movie they take center stage, and they are boring. The whole joke becomes "they have an accent. Ha ha funny, right?" Most of the jokes from the previous movie aren't even incorporated. Occasionally we might get something, but it was already stale in the first movie, so it doesn't work anymore. Every other attempt at humor was often so far fetched it just didn't work, or just so cringey that it was hard to laugh through the disgusted face already spread across your face. Comedic references to the previous movie were made as well, but they were often much less original and simply existed as a reference. Moreover, they were often very forced scenes, again for the sake of a reference. Also, there's a daughter in this movie. I don't know why she's there, she starts out as the central conflict, but I guess when time restraints came in that part just ended and the main plot started. She acts all moody at first and hates her family and stuff, then without the usual formulaic scene where she gets over it and loves her family she just starts loving them anyway. There's this sudden shift from hate to love, and it's never explained and comes completely out of nowhere. Why? Because the movie couldn't balance two conflicts at once and time restraints. That's what I think, anyway. In fact, all the characters suck. The plot is made out to be a huge deal by these people, when it quite simply isn't. And the ending is so stupidly forced. It doesn't make any sense, but simply exists for the sake of following the cliché formula of wedding movies. It tries to force tears or at least some kind of feeling, yet it gives the audience no reason to get invested in any of these characters. The only feeling this movie induced was boredom. Yeah, there's nothing better than an unfunny, boring comedy, right? Wrong. Overall this is just a really bad movie. There's nothing good about it, but there's plenty to hate. The comedy isn't funny, and the characters are stupid and underdeveloped. And to top it off, it's boring. In the end I wouldn't recommend this movie. Just watch the first one again, or something else entirely.