My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Cast
Nia Vardalos as Toula Portokalos
John Corbett as Ian Miller
Michael Constantine as Gus Portokalos
Lainie Kazan as Maria Portokalos
Andrea Martin (I) as Aunt Voula
Joey Fatone as Angelo
Christina Eleusiniotis as Toula at Age 6
Kaylee Vieira as Schoolgirl
John Kalangis as Greek Teacher
Marita Zouravlioff as Toula at Age 12
Sarah Osman as Athena at Age 15
Petra Wildgoose sa Car Pool Friend
Melissa Todd as Car Pool Friend
Bess Meisler as Yiayia
Louis Mandylor as Nick Portokalos
A Big Fat Greek Wedding based on a True Story.
Rater #1
10/10 This is a hilarious movie. It's actually based on a real story. The lead character, Toula Portokalos (Nia Vardalos) wrote the script, and it's about her life. She did a great job acting. The movie had some guests cameos including Joey Fatone of N'Sync. The storyline was awesome. I liked how Joey's and Louis Mandylor's character tricked Ian Miller (John Corbett) into saying some naughty things in greek. This movie is great even for the kids!
Rater #2
7/10. My Big Fat Greek Wedding's whole plot has been used countless times
before. But director Joel Zwick and writer Nia Vardalos are able to
make a witty, clever piece of work that stands out as "the summer's
surprise hit".
Nia Vardalos also stars as Toula Portokalos, a 30-year-old member of
her family who works in the family restaurant, Dancing Zorba's.
She's, so to speak, nerdy and shy, and we learn (from very funny
flashbacks) that she was never liked and had to go to "Greek School".
Her father Gus (Michael Constantine) wants her to marry (a Greek, of
course) so she can carry on the family. She, first, has to find a
boyfriend.
Toula sees a man who's dining in her eatery and is flattered by him.
She gets a makeover (she looks totally different) and goes to work in
her family's travel agency, where he comes back and they soon start
to date. Toula and Ian Miller (John Corbett) fall in love, and Ian
asks Toula to marry him.
Obviously, Gus and the rest of the family doesn't want that. But,
they insist, and the rest of the movie is about Ian's (and his
parents's) adaptions to Greek customs. The house where they lived is
the funniest part of the picture. Sure, it's not a big-budget hit,
but t's a very funny piece of work.
N'Sync's Joey Fatone comes in (meaninglessly) as a cousin
who "teaches" Ian some Greek. It's obvious that he was put in to
attract pre-teen audiences. He was even credited in the ad! The
characters were hard to keep track of, but in movies like this you
need lots of them. And it didn't matter as long as you got the main
few straight.
Many running jokes, such as the house, grew old after a while, but
others, like the Windex, were funny all the way through the ending
(which was great, by the way). My Big Fat Greek Wedding almost
warrants enough laughs to guarantee a higher rating, but just misses
Rater #3
Has Not Seen Movie.
Rater #4
7/10 I still don't get what everyone was raving about. If I were Roger Roeper I would've given it a thumb up, but not two. I will admit that even though the basic storyline has been used repeatedly throughout the history of Hollyowood, Nia Vardolos's skill in writing greatly improved on what could've been a big flop. All the actors did really well, especially Nia Vardolos and the actor playing her mother, Lainie Kazan. I wouldn't recommend it for kids under the age of ten or eleven, too many jokes about unpresentable body parts. Most of them are said in Greek though, so just move your arm across the bottom of the screen to obstruct their view of the translating text. I guess it would be ok to allow kids to young to be literate view the movie, but it would probably be boring to them and they wouldn't understand most of it. All of the clean humor is pretty funny though and would make most young adults crack up.
Rated PG for language and sensuality.
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