Entertainment Desk :
This film is more content playing on its old, successful themes, including a Windex spray, and even inveigles a wedding between Toula’s still-squabbling parents under the flimsiest of pretexts to justify the title.
We all know about big families and big weddings. Since 2002, we also know about big Greek families and big Greek weddings. And their obsession with food, marriage and lineage, not necessarily in that order.
Fourteen years later, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 doesn’t travel much further. The mis-matched couple of the first film, Toula (Vardalos) and Ian (Corbett), now have a daughter on the verge of entering college. The premise is that Toula is about to see a child move away just when her own parents, who live next door as does the extended family, continue to be as into each other’s lives as ever.
There is an idea there, but this film is more content playing on its old, successful themes, including a Windex spray, and even inveigles a wedding between Toula’s still-squabbling parents under the flimsiest of pretexts to justify the title. Meanwhile the daughter, underplayed nicely by Kampouris, gets reduced to a side story.
