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lserver362reviews · 8 months

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My heart! Toula and Ian are still absolute couple goals! I could watch them lean on each other in various locations all day. There wasn't quite enough for Ian to do, although I loved seeing him with the monk. I am convinced John Corbett came up with the idea to imitate the rooster in that one very brief shot. This movie packed so much in (maybe too much) but I laughed, I cried, and I recognized places I've been. I loved how much Nick got in this! I found Paris' college storyline the least compelling, but I enjoyed her character in this new setting. Nonbinary disaster gay Victory is an icon. I feel like this movie really shows an evolution where our characters are less tropey and deeper. What a beautiful nod to immigrants, the impact of war, and the sharing of culture, as well as grief and seeing parents age. Beautiful stuff. There are movies that I consider mine, as in no one recommended them to me or showed me them, but I fell in love with them on cable. These titles include You've Got Mail, Music & Lyrics, and of course, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, even though I was definitely too young to be the intended audience. I only watched the sequel to My Big Fat Greek Wedding after my local FYE went out of business and I got the DVD BluRay combo pack for maybe $10 tops. It had come out while I was in college and I was jaded that a sequel even existed. But it got me hook, line, and sinker when I did sit down and watch it. I figured that this third installment might surprise me in a similar way, and I was right! I was very scared by the poster as it looks just wretched and I had seen some people online say it was a flop, and there were only three other people in my screening, but I was just thrilled to be seeing some of my favorite characters on the big screen for the first time. Going opening weekend was important to me. The heart that these films have-and that's what matter to them-is unmatched. Nia Vardalos is my Greta Gerwig. If you didn't have fun, I don't know what to tell you! Σωπα!

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brainrockets · 7 months

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 was really lovely. AND had some lovely Non Binary rep!

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boomgers · 1 year

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Más que un viaje, un evento que une a todos… “Mi Gran Boda Griega 3”

De la escritora y directora Nia Vardalos, el fenómeno mundial regresa a cines para una nueva Aventura. Acompaña a la familia Portokalos en su viaje a Grecia para asistir a una reunión familiar en un viaje conmovedor e hilarante lleno de amor, giros y sorpresas.

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La película cuenta con las actuaciones de Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Maria Vacratsis, Melina Kotselou, Gia Carides, Lainie Kazan, Louis Mandylor, Joey Fatone, Andrea Martin, Elena Kampouris y Elias Kacavas.

#Mi Gran Boda Griega 3 #Nia Vardalos #John Corbett #Maria Vacratsis #Melina Kotselou #Gia Carides #Lainie Kazan #Louis Mandylor #Joey Fatone #Andrea Martin #Elena Kampouris #Elias Kacavas #Películas #Cines

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bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews · 7 months

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (12): "Number One.... BEST!". No! Really, really not!

#onemannsmovies #filmreview of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3". #MyBigFatGreekWedding. A 'comedy' devoid of laughs or redeeming features. 1/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3” (2023). This week is proving to be a test of “sequelitis”. Can you go and see a sequel if you haven’t seen any of the originals? In this review, I discuss “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3”, the first in the series I have seen. Later today I go and see “The Nun II” (again, not having seen the original one). Opening tomorrow is “Expendables 4”,…

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jmunneytumbler · 8 months

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'My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3' Actually Heads to Greece – Should We Join Them?

Is “selfie” a Greek Word? (CREDIT: Yannis Drakoulidis/Focus Features) Starring: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Louis Mandylor, Elena Kampouris, Lainie Kazan, Andrea Martin, Maria Vacratsis, Melina Kotselou, Elias Kacavas, Gia Carides, Joey Fatone, Gerry Mendicino, Stephanie Nur Director: Nia Vardalos Running Time: 92 Minutes Rating: PG-13 for A Quick Trip to a Nude Beach and a Lack of Familial…

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#Andrea Martin #Elena Kampouris #Elias Kacavas #Gerry Mendicino #Gia Carides #Joey Fatone #John Corbett #Lainie Kazan #Louis Mandylor #Maria Vacratsis #Melina Kotselou #My Big Fat Greek Wedding #My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 #Nia Vardalos #Stephanie Nur

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geekcavepodcast · 1 year

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 Trailer

The Portokalos family travels to a family reunion in Greece after the death of the father.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 stars Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Louis Mandylor, Elena Kampouris, Maria Vacratsis, Andrew Martin, Gia Carides, Joey Fatone, Lainie Kazan, Elias Kacavas, and Melina Kotselou. Vardalos wrote and directed the film.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 releases to theaters on September 8, 2023.

#my big fat greek wedding #my big fat greek wedding 3 #nia vardalos #john corbett #louis mandylor #elena kampouris #maria vacratsis #andrew martin #gia carides #joey fatone #lainie kazan #elias kacavas #melina kotselou #focus features #TGCLiz

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haroldgross · 4 months

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

[2.5 stars]

Let’s face it, we didn’t really need this third installment of Nia Vardalos’ story of the Portokalos clan. They were never very strong stories to begin with, but this third is as flimsy as you can get and still deliver a cohesive message. Vardalos can do better, but she just didn’t with this script.

A couple of new faces add some new flavor like Stephanie Nur (Special Ops: Lioness) and Melina Kotselou. But that isn’t enough to revive or support the story.

Like all the previous movies, it’s about accepting and enjoying life and moving on without forgetting your past. As this is dedicated to the late Michael Constantine, whose last movie was My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, that message actually carries a bit of poignancy.

If you liked the other two, come back for a final hurrah with the gang. But if you don’t know the franchise or want a good movie, find something else. It has its moments, but is generally a weak TV flick at best; a chain of silly jokes and absurd choices that add up to a heart-warming inevitability that just isn’t enough to justify the previous 90 minutes.

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popentertainment-moviereviews · 8 months

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MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 3 (2023)

Starring Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Louis Mandylor, Elena Kampouris, Gia Carides, Joey Fatone, Lainie Kazan, Andrea Martin, Maria Vacratsis, Elias Kacavas, Gerry Mendicino, Melina Kotselou, Elias Kacavas, Alexis Georgoulis, Stephanie Nur, Giannis Vasilottos, Anthi Andreopoulou , Ektoras Kaloudis, Dimos Filippas, Stavroula Logothettis and Peter Tharos.

Screenplay by Nia Vardalos.

Directed by Nia Vardalos.

Distributed by Focus Features. 92 minutes. Rated PG-13.

Character actress Nia Vardalos sort of hit the lottery 21 years ago when her screenplay My Big Fat Greek Wedding – based on her large eccentric Greek family – caught the attention of producers Tom Hanks, his wife Rita Wilson and Gary Goetzman who agreed to fund her passion project. (Obviously you know who Hanks and wife Wilson are. And the film Licorice Pizza was loosely based on Goetzman’s young life.)

A sweet, goofy wedding comedy that was made on a shoestring budget of about $5 million, My Big Fat Greek Wedding became a surprise hit, taking in over $367 million.

Honestly, I didn’t see it in the cinema when it was out but was looking forward to reviewing it when it came out on DVD. Truthfully, I thought it was okay, but I was a little underwhelmed. It felt like a much less interesting take of a different family-based ethnic love story, Moonstruck. Eventually it became a bit obsessive about the wedding itself, which is always much more interesting to people getting married than the people surrounding them. I thought it was kind of cute but ultimately very forgettable. However, I do realize that I was in the minority because the film did surprisingly well and became a cult favorite.

And Vardalos has pretty much been living off it ever since.

This new film is Vardalos’ fourth return to the Big Fat Greek well, following a short-lived 2003 sitcom My Big Fat Greek Life and the 2016 sequel My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. Well actually, it’s the fifth return, if you count Vardalos’ 2009 comedy My Life in Ruins, which has an extremely similar story to My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, about a Greek American who returns to the homeland to try to find the meaning of her life. That one is just about similar characters with different names.

Honestly, since the first film none of the others has done particularly well. And, frankly, most people have pretty much forgotten the first film more than two decades on. So, is anyone really waiting for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 all these years later?

I kind of doubt it. At least I hope not, because they will be disappointed. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 is even much worse than the original film. (I have to admit, I never saw the second film, so I can’t really comment on that one.)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 careens all over the place tonally, bouncing from silly comedy to wildly celebratory parties, from cliched romantic beats to not-so-dramatic life crises, from maudlin pathos to wacky family and neighbors. And I still don’t get the damned Windex references.

No one in the world – no matter how eccentric and how Greek they may be – is as over the top as nearly every single character in this film. I mean these people are bouncing off the ceilings, constantly in a state of wild emotional highs and lows.

However, Wedding 3 takes Toula (played by Vardalos, who wrote the screenplay and also directed) and her wacky family to Greece for a family reunion and also to deliver the diary of her late father (who was played in the other two films by Michael Constantine, who died in 2021) to his three childhood best friends.

Therefore Toula and her husband (John Corbett), decide to go, taking her now-college-aged daughter (Elena Kampouris) who is hiding the fact that she may be flunking out… yawn. Her grooming-obsessed brother (Louis Mandylor) and crazy aunts (Andrea Martin and Gia Carides), some cousins and probably a few other family members who I can’t even make myself remember, also come along for the ride.

However, her mom, played by the always delightful Lainie Kazan, barely makes an appearance here – and when she finally appears, it is done by Facetime – and then the screenplay drops yet a bit more unnecessary pathos on the storyline by suggesting that she may be suffering from dementia.

Once in Greece, they meet eccentric townspeople, distant relatives and uncover some “shocking” secrets of their dad’s life. But they can’t find the three friends, so Toula starts to melt down about letting her dad down. Eventually, they are found surprisingly easily. Toula goes on and on about how great it is that she found her dad’s three friends – but honestly her husband and her cousins really were the ones who found them. And even they basically just stumbled upon them.

Cue much celebration and yet another over-the-top Greek party scene.

None of the dramatic reveals is particularly gripping, and much of the comedy falls way flat. My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 is loud and makes lots of big gestures, but mostly it doesn’t have all that much to say.

That said, Greece looks stunning. If nothing else, you can spend your time checking out the scenery.

Jay S. Jacobs

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