My Big Fat Greek Wedding Reviews

This was a nice film, the one you choose to watch when you feel depressed or search for a film to cheer you up. Very funny, only if you are a Greek and you can get the humor on its whole. Quite representative of how an immigrant Greek family or an average Greek family found in a small Greek village behaves or functions around other people. However it's a good movie to watch with friends :)

This is one that never fails to make me giggle or smile to my hearts content. The beautiful love story is worth the watch if you are ever debating over it.

Since I kept hearing good things about this flick, I thought I should eventually check it out. Indeed, even though it was a rather small independent film, and despite never holding the number one spot at the American box office, the movie went on to earn a massive $369 million. Eventually, a couple of years later, it would loose the 1st place as the highest-grossing independent film of all time, a spot taken by ‘The Passion of the Christ’. To be honest, even though I thought it was pretty good, it wasn't really mind-blowing in my opinion. What I particularly enjoyed is that the romantic leads really looked like real people and not like your typical Hollywood stars like Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie. However, the story was not very original and rather predictable. Concerning Nia Vardalos, it seemed to be a big fairy tale for her, as she started this story in a one-woman play called ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ which was then turned into a huge success at the box-office. So , it seemed that she had a bright future ahead of her but she didn’t get much success since then. Still, to conclude, it is a rather entertaining and well made romantic comedy and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.