Toula sees that there is more to life than been confined in her father's restaurant. Her mother enrolled her to a computer classes, on finishing the classes she begins to work in her aunt traveling agency.she meets the love of her life and they get married after a while when her Greek family accepts him.
Endearing eccentricities, such as Toula's father's improvisational Greek etymologies of words like "kimono" and his reliance on Windex for a range of external-use medicinal purposes, help humanize the characters.
The reliability of the genre doesn't excuse predictable jokes, pat fiascoes and so many stereotypes that one is tempted to alert the Greek anti-defamation league.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed
April 29, 2009
It offers the illusion of originality by bombarding audiences with Greek stereotypes, but really clings to the formulaic romance comedy.
Second City alum Nia Vardalos stars in this ethnic comedy, which she also wrote -- an ambitious way to break into a leading role; too bad the results are insubstantial.
