My Big Fat Greek Wedding Critic Reviews

Like Vardalos and Corbett, who play their roles with vibrant charm, the film, directed by Joel Zwick, is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you can't fake. It's a keeper.Read the full review

It's not art, this movie. But it's much more amusing than you'd expect.Read the full review

There is a long and honorable tradition of broad intermarriage comedies (from the Romans to Abie's Irish Rose to La Cage aux Folles), and this one comes at least shoulder-high to the best. It has been directed by Joel Zwick in a happy, bustling style and acted with madcap ethnic relish.Read the full review

Five minutes into the film, I relaxed, knowing it was set in the real world, and not in the Hollywood alternative universe where Julia Roberts can't get a date.Read the full review

It's a buoyant comedy with more warmth and generosity of spirit than anything else in theaters right now.Read the full review

Wedding feels a bit anachronistic. Still, not every low-budget movie must be quirky or bleak, and a happy ending is no cinematic sin.Read the full review

An amiable, offhanded comedy about ethnic identity and last-chance romance.Read the full review

Suffers in ways typical to such adaptations -- what was fresh and flavorful in anecdotal description becomes more familiar and sitcom broad in literal depiction.Read the full review

Stays unrelentingly pleasant, but affability is a poor substitute for laughs or chemistry.Read the full review