‘Greek Wedding’ sequel is overstuffed
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EVER been to a wedding where you don’t know anyone very well? It’s pretty deadly, no matter how good the food or the band might be.
On the other hand, if you know and love everyone, you’ll have fun even if the champagne is flat and the canapes soggy.
And that, dear moviegoer, is about as deep as we need to go in analyzing “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2,” an overstuffed, under-achieving sequel that took more than a decade to come to the screen.
The fact that the film took 14 years to arrive — Nia Vardalos is again the star and writer — is both a blessing and a curse. It may have stoked huge interest but it also implies that we’re about to see something worth the wait.
We begin in snowy Chicago, where Toula (Vardalos) is still married to her Waspy hunk of a husband, Ian (John Corbett), now the high school principal. Her father, Gus (Michael Constantine), is still very much the patriarch, a man who swears he’s related to Alexander the Great and believes that every word in the English language comes from Greek, even “Facebook.” The rest of the gang is back, too, including Lainie Kazan as Toula’s mom, Maria, and the terrific Andrea Martin as Aunt Voula.
But 14 years have passed; Toula and Ian are now parents of a high school senior, pretty Paris (Elena Kampouris), who’s aching to spread her wings. Paris rolls her mascara-heavy eyes when her grandfather, on the way to school, instructs her to quickly find a Greek boy and marry him.
Such grandfatherly advice is par for the course, but poor Paris really suffers when this theme is stretched to ridiculous proportions as the entire clan shows up at the school’s college fair, where they virtually accost the representative from Northwestern and threaten him with punishment should Paris not be admitted.
But OK, given the title, there’s got to be...a wedding, right? Well, Toula’s already married, and Paris is too young. And so, we have a plot device whereby Gus discovers that his original marriage license from Greece was never signed.
Time for a wedding! Of course, there are a few obstacles along the way. But we all know that we’ll get our happy wedding, some way, somehow.
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