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MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

Universal Pictures<\/strong>
\nReviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya, d-based on Rotten Tomatoes<\/strong>
\nGrade: C-<\/strong>
\nDirector:\u00a0 Kirk Jones<\/strong>
\nWritten by: Nia Vardalos<\/strong>
\nCast: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Lainie Kazan, Andrea Martin<\/strong>
\nScreened at: AMC Empire, NYC, 3\/21\/16<\/strong>
\nOpens: March 25, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

This movie is so sit-comish like that I wondered why the background music is Greek rather than the usual elevator scores that we hear on equally banal comedies like \u201cTwo Broke Girls.\u201d\u00a0 A major segment, particularly in the first hour, is so embarrassing that I felt like crawling under my seat, with \u201chumor\u201d so ethnic that I felt like watching thirty hours of \u201cMad Men\u201d as an antidote.\u00a0 Nor is this understandable because of its status as a sequel to the year 2002 version, which despite its own imbecility scored big at the box office.\u00a0 Perhaps the box office will be lively because there are so few PG-13 movies catering to the family crowd, those turned away by the off-color language and visuals of a Judd Apatow offering. Never mind that this film\u2019s director, Kirk Jones, and writer-star Nia Vardalos, without citing a single four-letter word, are vulgar in their own way.<\/p>\n

Family dramas and comedies are arguably the principal concern of the cinema.\u00a0 Some families are close, others might make you want to remain single for a lifetime.\u00a0 In both cases, dysfunction serves as the necessary conflict since without conflict, you could not sell literature, theater, or cinema.\u00a0 The large, close-to-suffocating family on exhibit here are an ensemble whose hub would be Toula (Nia Vadalos), a Greek-American, and her WASPish husband Ian (John Corbett), who often embarrass their seventeen-year-old daughter Paris (Elena Kampouris)\u2014so named perhaps because with a Greek mom and an Anglo dad, they met-in-the-middle.\u00a0 For her part Toula is abashed in turn by her father Gus (Michael Constantine), who bores the audience with his belief that all the blessings of the world, and not just democracy and philosophy, have Greek origins.\u00a0 Gus told us in 2002 and now he tells us again that he, and perhaps his entire brood of cousins, uncles, aunts, and grandmas, are direct descendants of Alexander the Great, who conquered Persia in 331 B.C. (Where is Alexander when we need him now?)<\/p>\n

The hopelessly contrived engine that drives the movie forward is revved up when Gus discovers that when he thought he got married to Toula fifty years back, he actually did not, since during the confusion of wartime in their native Greece, the priest neglected to sign the marriage certificate for him and his bride, Maria (Lainie Kazan).\u00a0 Instead of burying the new information, he makes such a fuss that the extended family will soon have a wedding to attend, at least unless Maria, evaluating her half century with \u201ca grouchy old man,\u201d will say \u201cno\u201d to Gus\u2019s proposal.\u00a0 Not that this is Gus\u2019s only concern: he wants to find a boyfriend for his granddaughter, Paris who of course must be Greek.\u00a0 (By luck, Paris, breaking away from the family by desiring to leave her native Chicago and go to New York University, asks a boy to the high-school prom and he turns out to be Greek.\u00a0 Who needs a matchmaker?)<\/p>\n

After energizing an audience with the brilliant \u201cWaking Ned Devine\u201d in 1998 (a lottery winner dies and the whole town conspires to claim the money), director Kirk Jones falls flat with a by-the-numbers picture that threatens his prospective audience with a suffocation similar to what Vardalos\u2019s script forces on the acting ensemble.<\/p>\n

Rated PG-13.\u00a0 94 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a9 Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story \u2013 C-<\/strong>
\nActing \u2013 C<\/strong>
\nTechnical \u2013 C<\/strong>
\nOverall \u2013 C-<\/strong><\/p>\n

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