Movie Review: ****My Big Fat Greek wedding 3 (2023)

 The family is back minus the father who has passed away, but we are headed to Greece for a reunion of the father's family.  Fortoula (Nia Vardalos) wants to take her father's journal to his old friends.  Her brother, Nick (Louis Mandylor) wants to find a special tree for father's ashes.  Ian (John Corbett) travels with his wife.  The cousin who set up the reunion is hoping someone will stay as their town is drying up. literally; the spring has stopped flowing and everyone has gone away.  However during the course of their stay, the figure our why the sring had stopped, and reverse it.  The fathers friends had all moved away, but Ian was able to track them down with the help of a priest.  Other family brought them.  The tree was very obscure, but the locate it in the end.  And their daughter, Paris (Elena Kampouris) becomes engaged.  There is another wedding which takes place among relatives on the island.

A happy ending all around.  

Movie Review: ***^ My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016)

 This continuation is suppose to be 17 years later (14 years in actual time) with the daughter, Paris (Elena Kampouris) of the Millers (Nia Vardalos and John Corbett) now preparing to graduate from high school.  She has to decide where to go to college, in New York or close to home in Chicago.  This is a concern, but not the biggest concern.  Turns out that Toula's parents were not legally married.  It was during the war and they were married quickly by a priest who wasn't really a priest.  Now father Gus (Michael Constantine) and Maria (Lainie Kazan) must go through several hoops before they are actually married.  

This movie captures the same spirit of the original.  

Movie Review: ****My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

 I remember seeing this film in theaters in 2002 in San Jose.  It was a. very big deal that year; the surprise movie success of the year.  It was very good, and introduced me to a whole different culture I had not really considered.  Toula Portokalos (Nia Vardalos wrote and starred in the movie) is floundering and getting older as her father (Michael Constantine) reminds her.  She exerts herself, going to school and working in the family tourist agency.  This leads to her meeting a man, Ian Miller (John Corbett) who is not Greek.  They fall in love and want to be married.  But a nonGreek?  This film is humorous as it probes Greek culture, with lots of people and chaos always around.  

Fun movie.  Windex cures everything.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

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