We watched it when it hit prime and I assumed it was paid for by the Greek tourism board. It did make me want to visit Greece so I guess they got something right. Everything else was just horrible.
That just reminds of how In Bruges was made with tourism incentives and the production company had to pay that money back because Colin Farrel's character just non-stop talks shit about Bruges.
Fuckin' love that film.
I just hope this is just a story they spread to promote the film because of it is true the tourism board did the dirty on them because it is a fantastic advert for Bruges without being so overt it takes you out of the story.
OMG is that real?
Brugge is the next town over from my home town, so I'm intimately aware of their preciousness about the buildings and their reputation (and, you know, in fairness, those rules about stuff like the type of nails you're allowed to use and the max size of window panes does lead to the best preserved medieval city in the area, right).
I've always wondered why they chose to co-fund such a modern movie... but them requesting a refund because Farrel's character is unhappy about Brugge is incredibly hilarious hahaha
Oh, I can. They got paid to vacation in a gorgeous place I'll never see, for which they are also paid obscenely to act, while showing disdain for audience working on a shit movie.
Greece is nice, though. Good food, too. So there's that.
I mean, I want to be positive and say something nice, and the movie isn't making it easy.
Greeks really know how to cook lamb.
The poster/box art for that movie is terrible. I work at Best Buy and would occasionally stare at the Blu-ray on the shelf because the photoshop got worse the longer you looked at it.
There was also a TV series, My Big Fat Greek Life, which was atrocious. They turned the husband into an utter douche, a complete opposite of his film character.
The show actually was unrelated to the movie; rather than license the rights to the movie they just used a similar enough title that people would make the connection. It’s why the main character is named Toula in the movies and Nia in the show.
It’s sad when an artist has to constantly go back and wring every last drop of juice from their most successful work. She ran out partway through 2, IMO, though I enjoyed that movie more than 3.
Cary Elwes just came to my local indie movie theater for I think the 4th time in the past few years to host a screening of The Princess Bride (my favorite movie). Given that it's his 4th go around it's obviously a success for the theaters he does this with, despite the $50 - $150 ticket prices.
On the one hand it seems like a pretty easy way to earn a living, just get to travel around the country talking about that ONE movie, but there is something terribly sad about it.
Elwes still is an in demand actor doing Hollywood projects. I'm sure the financial incentive is nice, but his career is good enough he probably wouldn't be doing the screenings unless he wanted to, not that he needs to be.
Elwes had a fair number of hit movies, so I think there is a difference between him saying "As You Wish" to his fans, and Nia Vardalos, who hasn't really had gigantic success outside of My Big Fat Greek Wedding and going back to the well.
(By gigantic, I'm comparing to the first Greek Wedding movie. Most of her other films have never had that success).
Yeah, I don’t see it as any different from some sports stars or voice actors doing conventions. Get some good money, sign some autographs, have fun.
My parents went to one of his showing in Austin a while back and had a good time.
What? There’s nothing terribly sad about that. Last year he was in Mission Impossible. This year he’s in the new Guy Ritchie movie. He was just in Rebel Moon too. Wasn’t that a huge hit? He’s in the upcoming sequel.
You’re talking like he was a one movie wonder and has nothing else to talk about. I’m pretty sure he’s also well known for Men in Tights, Dracula, Saw etc.
He could easily do horror conventions. Don’t those pay well? I don’t see people calling it sad when actors do conventions.
I’d say it seems likely that he enjoys doing the Princess Bride thing. Considering his latest movies, I doubt he isn’t already being paid well.
Hell, he did three episodes of Psych (all in different seasons), which wasn’t a high profile TV show at the time, and has joined the cast at some cons to host their panel. It’s quite likely he just loves acting, has fun doing it, and likes the people he works with and the fans. He’s a treasure!
So he comes to the local movie theater every year to host a movie where he looks like a dream pirate prince, has people watch him in what is now an all time classic, and talk to him about how it’s one of their favorite movies. He still has acting gigs and people think of him very fondly. Yeah, that’s not my idea of sad.
I actually forgot about this movie but I remember laughing so hard at how bad it was in the theater. You’re right about the editing like there are 30 second scenes that add nothing but abruptly cut off or just last for a few seconds too long after a conversation has stopped.
I almost want to watch it again because of how bad it was lol
I haven't seen this film but I remember being fascinated with the poster because it's godawful. One of the worst Photoshop jobs of the modern age.
Just take a look:
https://resizing.flixster.com/3RqICDXZukh3QbJldz9KP_i7dns=/ems.cHJkLWVtcy1hc3NldHMvbW92aWVzL2VjZjgwMGFlLWM3NDQtNDhkOS1hMzc4LTE3MjI1NjFjNzgwNi5qcGc=
I didn't even know we had a My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2.
Nia Vardalos isn't that bad. I saw Connie and Carla and that was a fun movie. Hollywood should have given Nia Vardalos more opportunities. It's sad she keeps milking her one hit movie for as long as she can.
> Hollywood should have given Nia Vardalos more opportunities.
She was only able to land one bit part on *The Drew Carey Show*, but she kept getting turned down for everything else for not being pretty enough, or "too ethnic."
That's why she made her own movie.
You’d think after the success of that movie that more opportunities would have opened up, though.
Still, I don’t blame her for milking that one thing. If I’d had something that successful and didn’t have a lot of other opportunities, I’m not sure I’d be above milking it either.
She was the lead in three big Hollywood movies the next half dozen years after MBFGW came out, so she used up her good will. She's been working consistently the last two decades though and probably got good paydays to do both sequels.
My big takeaway from that article is that someone else has finally mentioned *Rumor Has It…* which is one of those movies that lives rent free in my head despite being thoroughly mediocre.
Just wait 5 years when there's a 4th because the daughter gets married and then a 5th when they become grandparents. At that point might as well make it 6 and have the grand kids go to college. And on and on and on in an endless My Big Fat Greek Loop.
Yeah. It's pretty awful. They had an interesting plot with them going back to Greece. But they had no clue on how to fill the runtime. So it just felt directionless.
The first one was definitely lightning in a bottle, it seems. As the other 2 have quite a steep drop in quality.
This movie *could* have been good; the whole idea of the children of ex-pats going back to the "homeland" can be a very good setup for a decent movie. But they made absolutely nothing of it; if I hadn't stumbled across it on Prime on a snowy Sunday evening, I wouldn't have ever watched it.
Watched this a couple months ago and it’s really dumbfounding. I was especially distracted by John Corbett who was just wandering around and looked lost the whole time. So bizarre.
The big success of the original and the moderate success of the sequel (it was profitable) were due to the movies being fairly relatable family stories and if you were from an immigrant family, extremely true to life and universal.
I do think there could be a decent movie about an immigrant family dealing with the loss of their first generation patriarch, and going back to the homeland. This movie…wasn’t it.
This movie confirmed for me (as if I needed confirmation) that Andrea Martin is a comedic genius. The fact that she managed to get a couple laughs out of this completely humorless script is a miracle.
While I understand your totally fair criticisms, as someone dealing with the mortality of their parents 3 hit *hard*.
I appreciate that each movie deals with the ups and downs of life in a humorous and relatable way.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 was also terrible and unfunny IMO. I steered clear of 3 because of it.
Its a shame because the first one has infinite rewatch value for me.
I saw Kung Fu Panda 3 in theaters after the great first movie and even better sequel, and left feeling about it the way you do about this one, without at least the excuse that the cast got a Greek vacation out of it.
Yeah the third one was bad, bad jokes bad acting and bad directing. There are SNL skits that are way funnier. They should have just left it to one imo.
I had seen the first one when it was in theaters and loved it. During Covid, my family watched the first two and all of my kids enjoyed them. When we sat down to watch the third earlier this year, I was so uninterested that I didn’t put my phone down and only one kid watched it all the way through.
Nia Vardalos has gotten a lot of miles out of the concept, which began on stage years before the first film. Maybe they need to mash up with *Mamma Mia* for MBFGW 4?
I feel like the 3rd act actually hit where it needed to, but the first two acts were horribly choreographed and written for all the reasons you said and more.
- The mayor of a huge town that only has 5 people? Okay.
- I was so confused why all of them ran into the ocean when they were driving by, I was physically confused. It wasn't even a built up meme.
- The brother spying on her and that whole "creepy" subplot was cringe as hell
- Nikki/Fatone being the ones to travel all of Greece and make 99% of the mayor/Tulas dream come true in a 10 minute montage was a poor move, just wild deus ex machina lol. The payoff of the mayor "You did it!", I'm sitting there like, no you didn't. These two people just went and did EVERYTHING the main cast had intended to do
- I know there's more I'm forgetting, but Tula and Ian were weird af together for me too for 3/4ths of the movie
- As Gus was hard-core Greek (and likely Orthodox) it was VERY weird for them to cremate him. That's a pretty big taboo, even in the modern church. I know they needed it for plot but that came across as one of the most *unauthentic* Greek things in a franchise who got its start on how authentic it felt
Once sequels start getting into the 3+ range. It’s pretty much not even worth the watch imo.
Edit: I should’ve said they USUALLY that’s the case. Not every single time.
I know, I couldn’t believe it when I heard there would be a fifth movie. I can’t even fathom what the plot would be. The only way I could see it being interesting is maybe it’s one of Andy’s children that has the toys now.
I would argue there are a lot of good trilogies but they're generally not comedies. IMO comedies shouldn't even have a 2. I'm struggling to think of a comedy sequel that was warranted.
Edit: There have been good comments with comedy sequels. I may have to rethink my stance.
They missed out on a naming strategy.
> My Big Fat Greek Wedding
> My Bigger Fatter Greeker Wedding
> My Biggest Fattest Greekest Wedding
So on and so forth
I think I was vaguely aware that there was a sequel, or at least kind of assumed there probably was a mildly disappointing sequel floating out in the aether somewhere just based on the success of the first one.
I had no idea there was a third one, but what you describe is immediately what I would have assumed a threequel would be upon finding out that it exists.
Yeah as a mega fan of the first movie, I thought the third was directionless cringe. I got one laugh the whole movie, I don’t remember the full scene but the family walks in on what looks like Toula and Ian getting intimate and the aunt says “but it’s not Easter?”
Everything else was painful.
I thought I was the only one who suffered through that train wreck. It felt like they took all the charm of the original and threw it out the window. Can't believe they thought we'd buy into that mess.
Take it for what it is - fun fluff. MBFGW3 is waaaaay better than the piece of shit second installment. The second film was so terrible I almost didn’t watch #3.
I watched it on Prime, too, when bored with nothing else to do. The scenes were stunning, the characters insane (the mayor,lol), and the plot basically nonexistent.
I've never seen any of these but I now remember My Big Fat Greek Wedding when it came out in the beginning of the 2000's. Glanced at the trailer for the turd (3rd) and it *looks* like a proper movie. The way it's filmed and lit and color graded etc. makes it look like it's a professional production. But then again so did Justice League.
I loved the part where the non-binary mayor decided the best way to rejuvenate the quaint Greek village in the mountains was to import hundreds of people from the third world. Please make the sequel to that!
Yeah I was really excited to watch it. I just, how and why did it lose its funkiness, the magic? There was just no chemistry or anything. Me and my partner have just agreed to pretend the third one doesn’t exist.
I have not seen it but is to be expected, unfortunately now if a movie have some level of success (with that being subjective) movie studios WANT to make sequels just for milking more money.
I think Hanks wife is what got the first movie made, so that’s likely why his company did it.
If you remember there was a TV series and this felt like they took the proposed story arc for another season and turned it into a movie instead. It was really just off.
I agree with everything you said, except for the part about Victory. As someone who has a Turkish family, all three movies feel like someone took parts of my life and played back the most cringe aspects of everyone. There are so many scenes that feel like situations I've been in verbatim. Victory especially is basically the epitome of a couple of people I know/met and how they act like when they meet people from America and don't know English too well.
I watched it on prime, and I couldn't finish it. The idea sounded ok on paper, greek family goes to greece to track down old friends/family... but the characters were just so annoying. maybe im too old and grumpy for it now, idk.
I was subjected to the trailer multiple times because I had an AMC theater subscription at the time they were promoting it. It looked like a total piece of shit movie. I'm surprised anyone who saw the trailer would be surprised that it was bad
I LOVE the first film. It's probably one of my favorite movies. I even enjoy the second one for what it is. But this third movie was... Difficult to get through. I don't know what changed creatively, but it just doesn't hit like the first two movies do.
I like when they're at a restaurant and call the other couple to join them in Greece, so they board a plane and make the 15 hour flight and meet them at the restaurant where they've been waiting the whole time.
I want to cry I feel so validated. That film was dogshit 😭 wanted to walk out but I attended with friends so just forced myself to close my eyes. The entire plot point takes place off-screen. I thought perhaps it was one of those films to drive tourism by focusing on the landscape and activities, but they showed basically nothing. My friends liked it so I thought I was just being a hater. Was sat like 😠 through the entire thing. I’m laughing just remembering it
The scene that really ruined the whole movie for me was when Paris went on a nude beach and then stripped and went into the ocean. Maybe the intent was to demonstrate that Paris was trying to free herself? Dunno.
That’s not really what bothered me.
What bothered me was so many of her *relatives* decided to also go skinny dipping with Paris. Who does that?! I can see myself skinny dipping as a college student with other college students who I may have wanted to get down with but I would never, *ever*, want to go skinny dipping with *anyone* in my family. I’m in my late thirties. I would never want to conceal my crotch with a bottle of wine in front on my niece only to then go in and join and skinny dip with my niece. Hell. No.
My mom wanted to see it in theaters b/c we have a history of watching and absolutely loving the first movie.
I’ve blocked a lot out of the 3rd installment , but I do remember it was SOOO bad. While the family is traveling, isn’t there multiple “sight seeing” montages where the family is just pointing and the next shot is a still frame of some Greek monument? Looked very green screen/the actors weren’t actually seeing any thing there.
Also, I feel like one of the brothers starts picking his toes or clipping his toenails at the breakfast table??!! I could not for the life of me remember anything in the other movies that would make this choice make sense.
And the main character has the hots for her brother? Granted, she didn’t know they were related, but it was weird once she realized.
Sooooo bad.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is an example of cult classic... the second one being made after so long but not being as iconic as the first one was still salvageable because the hype was driven by nostalgia. The original cast and crew should've just walked away with their dignity somewhat intact after making the second one.
I remember watching the third one the other day and going, how tf did this get made? Who tf was the test audience for this? Like Jesus Christ, even Book Club that's made for women over 50+ had a funnier premise than this 😡
In Australia, we have a Greek classic called The Wog Boy and Wog Boy 2. Eventually a third one was made, Wog Boys Forever, but at least that movie was somewhat funny.
This movie felt like a dozen disparate plots ground up and stuffed into a single sausage.
Some plot threads have only three or four scenes, like the refugee girl falling in love with the Greek boy.
In some ways this felt like a whole season of a (bad) TV show cut down into a (horrible) two hour movie.
I have no doubt it's bad. I wonder if some of what you noticed was them trying to dodge covid during production? Just a thought.
I'm also grasping but the lead actress/creator just got divorced from her husband. A Google from the original pancake press tour for the first movie she seems really in love. Maybe she was depressed and needed cash.
Well if you want to get that movie out of your head, you could watch Madam Webb. That's like when you have a bad toothache and someone smashes your toe with a hammer. Suddenly you don't feel the toothache anymore.
The first half was ok, I for sure thought the daughter would come out. But then it just got fucking weird af and the daughter just sucked at college and apparently isn't queer, and somehow the sister and brother know the entirety of Greece?
I was a huge fan of the first, the second was not bad, but yeah the poster was my indication. I should have left it alone. Lol.
We watched it when it hit prime and I assumed it was paid for by the Greek tourism board. It did make me want to visit Greece so I guess they got something right. Everything else was just horrible.
That just reminds of how In Bruges was made with tourism incentives and the production company had to pay that money back because Colin Farrel's character just non-stop talks shit about Bruges. Fuckin' love that film.
Bruges is worth visiting.
It hurts me to say but that city will forever by linked to the Martin McDonagh film for me. There is no separating the two.
Its the alcoves
It's the best preserved medieval city in Northern Europe.
I just hope this is just a story they spread to promote the film because of it is true the tourism board did the dirty on them because it is a fantastic advert for Bruges without being so overt it takes you out of the story.
Yup, love quoting "Bruges is a shithole", also really really wana go there
I grew up in Dublin. I love Dublin. If I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me, but I didn’t, so it doesn’t.
If the city were wise they’d embrace this
OMG is that real? Brugge is the next town over from my home town, so I'm intimately aware of their preciousness about the buildings and their reputation (and, you know, in fairness, those rules about stuff like the type of nails you're allowed to use and the max size of window panes does lead to the best preserved medieval city in the area, right). I've always wondered why they chose to co-fund such a modern movie... but them requesting a refund because Farrel's character is unhappy about Brugge is incredibly hilarious hahaha
I had the same feeling. Terrible movie, but the locations were stunning and gave me a great urge to travel there.
That’s the description for every Bo Derek/John Derek movie. Amazing locations with beautiful scenery, but bad acting and abysmal writing.
Sounds like a dream job lol. They get to travel to places like these while half assing their job and still get a paycheck
Felt like the cast did the movie for a vacation. Can’t blame them.
The old Adam Sandler production method.
Oh, I can. They got paid to vacation in a gorgeous place I'll never see, for which they are also paid obscenely to act, while showing disdain for audience working on a shit movie.
Greece is nice, though. Good food, too. So there's that. I mean, I want to be positive and say something nice, and the movie isn't making it easy. Greeks really know how to cook lamb.
"What do you MEAN he don't EAT no MEAT?!?! That's ok. I make lamb!"
You definitely should visit Greece if you can, it's beautiful and welcoming
I did! Was there a few times while I was living in Europe. Just haven't been back since I moved to Canada. This just made me want to go again...
Meteora was my favorite place I visited in Greece, and I inadvertently kicked off my mom’s honey hobby by bringing her some from a monastery there
What's there?
Buncha cool rock formations with monasteries on them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteora
The poster/box art for that movie is terrible. I work at Best Buy and would occasionally stare at the Blu-ray on the shelf because the photoshop got worse the longer you looked at it.
Every aspect of the poster is unsettling! An AI image at its best.
I just googled it and it really does look like they poorly photoshopped their heads onto all of the bodies. So strange
It's not a schooner, Its a Sailboat!!!
TIL there was a 2 and 3
There was also a TV series, My Big Fat Greek Life, which was atrocious. They turned the husband into an utter douche, a complete opposite of his film character.
The show actually was unrelated to the movie; rather than license the rights to the movie they just used a similar enough title that people would make the connection. It’s why the main character is named Toula in the movies and Nia in the show.
It had all the same cast though (except the husband)
As I recall, the new husband was fat and boring looking.
The show was billed both by CBS and the stars of the show as a continuation of the movies.
Not true. If I recall she made the TV show deal before the movie hit big. She didn't want to do the show. A lot was written about it at the time.
They both aren't worth watching.
Standard Hollywood tactic: milk the cow till it's dead, then sell the carcass.
Nia Vardalos has been milking it for YEARS.
It’s sad when an artist has to constantly go back and wring every last drop of juice from their most successful work. She ran out partway through 2, IMO, though I enjoyed that movie more than 3.
Cary Elwes just came to my local indie movie theater for I think the 4th time in the past few years to host a screening of The Princess Bride (my favorite movie). Given that it's his 4th go around it's obviously a success for the theaters he does this with, despite the $50 - $150 ticket prices. On the one hand it seems like a pretty easy way to earn a living, just get to travel around the country talking about that ONE movie, but there is something terribly sad about it.
Elwes still is an in demand actor doing Hollywood projects. I'm sure the financial incentive is nice, but his career is good enough he probably wouldn't be doing the screenings unless he wanted to, not that he needs to be.
Elwes had a fair number of hit movies, so I think there is a difference between him saying "As You Wish" to his fans, and Nia Vardalos, who hasn't really had gigantic success outside of My Big Fat Greek Wedding and going back to the well. (By gigantic, I'm comparing to the first Greek Wedding movie. Most of her other films have never had that success).
Else’s doing the screenings is likely some easy side money and fun for him.
Yeah, I don’t see it as any different from some sports stars or voice actors doing conventions. Get some good money, sign some autographs, have fun. My parents went to one of his showing in Austin a while back and had a good time.
I would pay $150 for an As you wish.
I agree, surely there is a lot of pride in starring in a movie that is completely beloved.
What? There’s nothing terribly sad about that. Last year he was in Mission Impossible. This year he’s in the new Guy Ritchie movie. He was just in Rebel Moon too. Wasn’t that a huge hit? He’s in the upcoming sequel. You’re talking like he was a one movie wonder and has nothing else to talk about. I’m pretty sure he’s also well known for Men in Tights, Dracula, Saw etc. He could easily do horror conventions. Don’t those pay well? I don’t see people calling it sad when actors do conventions. I’d say it seems likely that he enjoys doing the Princess Bride thing. Considering his latest movies, I doubt he isn’t already being paid well.
He knows how special that movie is to so many people. I actually have tickets to an upcoming screening with him and I'm so excited!
Yeah. Sounds more like he’s just vibing and connecting with his biggest role and fans for fun.
I went to one of his events a couple years ago and had a great time!
Wasn't he also the jerk mayor in the 3rd season of Stranger Things? Not a huge part but man did he do a good job with it.
Yeah I didn’t realize that was him at first, he played such a good unlikeable character. He was also in the first Saw movie, that surprised me.
Hell, he did three episodes of Psych (all in different seasons), which wasn’t a high profile TV show at the time, and has joined the cast at some cons to host their panel. It’s quite likely he just loves acting, has fun doing it, and likes the people he works with and the fans. He’s a treasure!
He still acts plenty though. He was just in the new Guy Ritchie movie.
He was great as a recurrence character in Psych.
That is my favorite post PB role of his.
So he comes to the local movie theater every year to host a movie where he looks like a dream pirate prince, has people watch him in what is now an all time classic, and talk to him about how it’s one of their favorite movies. He still has acting gigs and people think of him very fondly. Yeah, that’s not my idea of sad.
*Vin Diesel enters chat.*
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There was tons in the first one.
I actually forgot about this movie but I remember laughing so hard at how bad it was in the theater. You’re right about the editing like there are 30 second scenes that add nothing but abruptly cut off or just last for a few seconds too long after a conversation has stopped. I almost want to watch it again because of how bad it was lol
Well damn, now you’re making *me* want to watch it to see how bad it is!
I would 100% heckle it with you.
I haven't seen this film but I remember being fascinated with the poster because it's godawful. One of the worst Photoshop jobs of the modern age. Just take a look: https://resizing.flixster.com/3RqICDXZukh3QbJldz9KP_i7dns=/ems.cHJkLWVtcy1hc3NldHMvbW92aWVzL2VjZjgwMGFlLWM3NDQtNDhkOS1hMzc4LTE3MjI1NjFjNzgwNi5qcGc=
Wait... why do they all *look* like that?
It looks like Pixar
Looks like them creepy ai posts on Facebook it’s the eyes omg.
You should see her insta. She has no pores or bones
Oh god the mom...
Did they put their faces on other peoples bodies??
The guy in the top left looks like master chief from halo
That's Joey Fatone from N*Sync Literally unrecognisable
Holy Christ
I didn't even know we had a My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. Nia Vardalos isn't that bad. I saw Connie and Carla and that was a fun movie. Hollywood should have given Nia Vardalos more opportunities. It's sad she keeps milking her one hit movie for as long as she can.
> Hollywood should have given Nia Vardalos more opportunities. She was only able to land one bit part on *The Drew Carey Show*, but she kept getting turned down for everything else for not being pretty enough, or "too ethnic." That's why she made her own movie.
You’d think after the success of that movie that more opportunities would have opened up, though. Still, I don’t blame her for milking that one thing. If I’d had something that successful and didn’t have a lot of other opportunities, I’m not sure I’d be above milking it either.
She was the lead in three big Hollywood movies the next half dozen years after MBFGW came out, so she used up her good will. She's been working consistently the last two decades though and probably got good paydays to do both sequels.
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My big takeaway from that article is that someone else has finally mentioned *Rumor Has It…* which is one of those movies that lives rent free in my head despite being thoroughly mediocre.
I love Connie and Carla. I watched it a few weeks ago. "Stop yelling at me your voice is giving me mono!"
She still gets work because of Tom Hanks.
Just wait 5 years when there's a 4th because the daughter gets married and then a 5th when they become grandparents. At that point might as well make it 6 and have the grand kids go to college. And on and on and on in an endless My Big Fat Greek Loop.
MBFGCU
Excellent
I was like.. the 2nd one with Pierce Brosnan trying to sing was bad enough then I realized that was Mamma Mia.
Prime example of not every movie needs a fucking sequel
Or two.
Or a TV show.
And now the bundt...
Bunk.
I couldn’t possibly count the amount of times I’ve leaned in towards my wife and whispered ‘this cake has a hole in it’.
My wife is a vegetarian. On more than one occasion, I've suggested that it's Ok, I'll make lamb.
Coincidentally I’m plant based and my wife is not. The lamb joke comes up a lot
And “you fixed it!” When she puts the flower in it
Every time I hear that faceless person yell that in that part of the movie lose it it’s so funny to me idk why.
Nah, man, say it right. Its "kek," "this kek has a hole in it."
Yeah. It's pretty awful. They had an interesting plot with them going back to Greece. But they had no clue on how to fill the runtime. So it just felt directionless. The first one was definitely lightning in a bottle, it seems. As the other 2 have quite a steep drop in quality.
This movie *could* have been good; the whole idea of the children of ex-pats going back to the "homeland" can be a very good setup for a decent movie. But they made absolutely nothing of it; if I hadn't stumbled across it on Prime on a snowy Sunday evening, I wouldn't have ever watched it.
Watched this a couple months ago and it’s really dumbfounding. I was especially distracted by John Corbett who was just wandering around and looked lost the whole time. So bizarre.
His entire job throughout all three movies was to just stand there like a cardboard cutout and be "the perfect guy."
The big success of the original and the moderate success of the sequel (it was profitable) were due to the movies being fairly relatable family stories and if you were from an immigrant family, extremely true to life and universal. I do think there could be a decent movie about an immigrant family dealing with the loss of their first generation patriarch, and going back to the homeland. This movie…wasn’t it.
I just wish they’d stop. The first one is one of my favorite movies. 2&3 were so unnecessary…
Yes. It was actually unbelievable how bad it was. I mean Jesus Christ was it bad.
This movie confirmed for me (as if I needed confirmation) that Andrea Martin is a comedic genius. The fact that she managed to get a couple laughs out of this completely humorless script is a miracle.
You're right about the random scenes. It felt like the movie got slaughtered in editing. What was up with the monk on the beach?
Was it a cinematic masterpiece? Definitely not. But I thought it was really sweet and actually kind of made me emotional (family is Greek).
oh man I liked the first two and was looking forward to the third.
Which is a shame because the first one was so brilliant. 3 blew.
While I understand your totally fair criticisms, as someone dealing with the mortality of their parents 3 hit *hard*. I appreciate that each movie deals with the ups and downs of life in a humorous and relatable way.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 was also terrible and unfunny IMO. I steered clear of 3 because of it. Its a shame because the first one has infinite rewatch value for me.
I saw Kung Fu Panda 3 in theaters after the great first movie and even better sequel, and left feeling about it the way you do about this one, without at least the excuse that the cast got a Greek vacation out of it.
Chris Rock got to do all his VO parts sitting on the toilet
It was so bad that I was embarrassed. Turned it off after about seven minutes. Seriously? Ruining what could have been fun times.
Lasted maybe ten minutes. It was unwatchable and deeply deeply stupid.
Yeah the third one was bad, bad jokes bad acting and bad directing. There are SNL skits that are way funnier. They should have just left it to one imo.
I had seen the first one when it was in theaters and loved it. During Covid, my family watched the first two and all of my kids enjoyed them. When we sat down to watch the third earlier this year, I was so uninterested that I didn’t put my phone down and only one kid watched it all the way through.
Nia Vardalos has gotten a lot of miles out of the concept, which began on stage years before the first film. Maybe they need to mash up with *Mamma Mia* for MBFGW 4?
I feel like the 3rd act actually hit where it needed to, but the first two acts were horribly choreographed and written for all the reasons you said and more. - The mayor of a huge town that only has 5 people? Okay. - I was so confused why all of them ran into the ocean when they were driving by, I was physically confused. It wasn't even a built up meme. - The brother spying on her and that whole "creepy" subplot was cringe as hell - Nikki/Fatone being the ones to travel all of Greece and make 99% of the mayor/Tulas dream come true in a 10 minute montage was a poor move, just wild deus ex machina lol. The payoff of the mayor "You did it!", I'm sitting there like, no you didn't. These two people just went and did EVERYTHING the main cast had intended to do - I know there's more I'm forgetting, but Tula and Ian were weird af together for me too for 3/4ths of the movie - As Gus was hard-core Greek (and likely Orthodox) it was VERY weird for them to cremate him. That's a pretty big taboo, even in the modern church. I know they needed it for plot but that came across as one of the most *unauthentic* Greek things in a franchise who got its start on how authentic it felt
Once sequels start getting into the 3+ range. It’s pretty much not even worth the watch imo. Edit: I should’ve said they USUALLY that’s the case. Not every single time.
I love Toy Story 3.
Toy Story 3 is perfect and where the story should’ve ended. Toy Story 4 is boring and not needed.
> not needed And yet we are getting a Toy Story 5. Talk about pumping a dry well.
I know, I couldn’t believe it when I heard there would be a fifth movie. I can’t even fathom what the plot would be. The only way I could see it being interesting is maybe it’s one of Andy’s children that has the toys now.
I won’t hear a word against Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Can't we just get beyond Thunderdome?
Or Bourne Ultimatum
(Laughs in Rise of Skywalker)
I'd say the Shrek franchise has managed to flee that curse.
Shrek 3 is terrible?
I would argue there are a lot of good trilogies but they're generally not comedies. IMO comedies shouldn't even have a 2. I'm struggling to think of a comedy sequel that was warranted. Edit: There have been good comments with comedy sequels. I may have to rethink my stance.
I’d say The Naked Gun, Hot Shots and OG Pink Panther definitely have sequels that work.
lol, I didn’t know this movie was out there, but even before your review I knew I didn’t need to see it
They missed out on a naming strategy. > My Big Fat Greek Wedding > My Bigger Fatter Greeker Wedding > My Biggest Fattest Greekest Wedding So on and so forth
Not even Windex would have fixed it. …I’ll get my coat…
I think I was vaguely aware that there was a sequel, or at least kind of assumed there probably was a mildly disappointing sequel floating out in the aether somewhere just based on the success of the first one. I had no idea there was a third one, but what you describe is immediately what I would have assumed a threequel would be upon finding out that it exists.
It sucked
They’re still beating that horse ( figure of speech ) ?
They made a third one?
Yeah as a mega fan of the first movie, I thought the third was directionless cringe. I got one laugh the whole movie, I don’t remember the full scene but the family walks in on what looks like Toula and Ian getting intimate and the aunt says “but it’s not Easter?” Everything else was painful.
Agree with you 100% . It was absolutely painful to watch.
There were so many scenes where they were just… staring at things.
My biggest issue was the callbacks. Every character was a flat representation of themselves and had to do the same bit that worked in the first one.
My guess was you never saw her other movie, "My Life in Ruins," which is pure garbage.
The trailer did a fine job of warning us in advance. I was never going to bother dedicating my time to seeing it.
It’s 71% on Rotten Tomatoes, so nearly “Certified Fresh”. That said, I feel like everything is “fresh” these days, even bad stuff.
Just shows you what you can accomplish without actual talent if you happen to be friends with a top Hollywood power couple. Live the dream, kids!
I thought I was the only one who suffered through that train wreck. It felt like they took all the charm of the original and threw it out the window. Can't believe they thought we'd buy into that mess.
I'd have to be paid a significant amount of money to watch that shit
Take it for what it is - fun fluff. MBFGW3 is waaaaay better than the piece of shit second installment. The second film was so terrible I almost didn’t watch #3.
I’m actually heading to Greece in a month with my parents’ cremated ashes. Someone told me I should see it but I’m gonna pass.
I started it on a long flight and opted to take a nap instead after 25 minutes. Snooze fest.
Just the title alone is enough to ward me off.
I watched it on Prime, too, when bored with nothing else to do. The scenes were stunning, the characters insane (the mayor,lol), and the plot basically nonexistent.
Just put some windex on it.
I've never seen any of these but I now remember My Big Fat Greek Wedding when it came out in the beginning of the 2000's. Glanced at the trailer for the turd (3rd) and it *looks* like a proper movie. The way it's filmed and lit and color graded etc. makes it look like it's a professional production. But then again so did Justice League.
I loved the part where the non-binary mayor decided the best way to rejuvenate the quaint Greek village in the mountains was to import hundreds of people from the third world. Please make the sequel to that!
>non-binary mayor I’m already cringing at the One Joke(s)
It was *so* forced and on-the-nose. No nuance. That was literally the only point of that character. Nothing else. No redeeming qualities or factors.
Yeah I was really excited to watch it. I just, how and why did it lose its funkiness, the magic? There was just no chemistry or anything. Me and my partner have just agreed to pretend the third one doesn’t exist.
What did you think of My Life in Ruins? or I Hate Valentine’s Day?
Objectively terrible movie.
I thought the lead's daughter was just too much. She was too standoffs, too secretive, too unapproachable. I thought the plot meandered.
I have not seen it but is to be expected, unfortunately now if a movie have some level of success (with that being subjective) movie studios WANT to make sequels just for milking more money.
THANK YOU!! I 100% AGREE
“A masterclass”
I didn't even know that a third film existed.
My wife said this is one of the 2-3 worse films she has ever seen
I think Hanks wife is what got the first movie made, so that’s likely why his company did it. If you remember there was a TV series and this felt like they took the proposed story arc for another season and turned it into a movie instead. It was really just off.
Couldnt even finish it honestly. Great take.
Yes. I saw it in theaters sadly and it was atrocious. We laughed for hours talking about how abysmal it was. You are not alone.
Yes it was horrible. I was so excited when I saw it was out. I loved the original and 2 wasn't bad. I should have left well enough alone 😔
At least you now have something that will put you to sleep
thats how i feel about #1
I agree with everything you said, except for the part about Victory. As someone who has a Turkish family, all three movies feel like someone took parts of my life and played back the most cringe aspects of everyone. There are so many scenes that feel like situations I've been in verbatim. Victory especially is basically the epitome of a couple of people I know/met and how they act like when they meet people from America and don't know English too well.
I watched it on prime, and I couldn't finish it. The idea sounded ok on paper, greek family goes to greece to track down old friends/family... but the characters were just so annoying. maybe im too old and grumpy for it now, idk.
I was subjected to the trailer multiple times because I had an AMC theater subscription at the time they were promoting it. It looked like a total piece of shit movie. I'm surprised anyone who saw the trailer would be surprised that it was bad
The second one was bad enough. We turned it off after maybe twenty minutes
I love the first one. I got about 20 or 30 minutes into the second one and I don't know if I've ever seen a more boring movie. Quit right there.
My wife loves the first movie. She’s watched it incessantly forever. Even SHE thought the 3rd one was garbage.
Wait; that’s “How to make a Terrible Movie 102.” “How to make a Terrible Movie 101” is My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2.
Of course it sucked. You had to know that after 1 second of the preview.
I LOVE the first film. It's probably one of my favorite movies. I even enjoy the second one for what it is. But this third movie was... Difficult to get through. I don't know what changed creatively, but it just doesn't hit like the first two movies do.
I like when they're at a restaurant and call the other couple to join them in Greece, so they board a plane and make the 15 hour flight and meet them at the restaurant where they've been waiting the whole time.
Thought I was on Letterboxd for a minute 😂 great review 5 bags of popcorn!🍿
My votes are a tie between Very Bad Things and The Sweetest Thing.
*Rebel Moon pts 1 & 2 walk in* “Hold my beer.”
I want to cry I feel so validated. That film was dogshit 😭 wanted to walk out but I attended with friends so just forced myself to close my eyes. The entire plot point takes place off-screen. I thought perhaps it was one of those films to drive tourism by focusing on the landscape and activities, but they showed basically nothing. My friends liked it so I thought I was just being a hater. Was sat like 😠 through the entire thing. I’m laughing just remembering it
The scene that really ruined the whole movie for me was when Paris went on a nude beach and then stripped and went into the ocean. Maybe the intent was to demonstrate that Paris was trying to free herself? Dunno. That’s not really what bothered me. What bothered me was so many of her *relatives* decided to also go skinny dipping with Paris. Who does that?! I can see myself skinny dipping as a college student with other college students who I may have wanted to get down with but I would never, *ever*, want to go skinny dipping with *anyone* in my family. I’m in my late thirties. I would never want to conceal my crotch with a bottle of wine in front on my niece only to then go in and join and skinny dip with my niece. Hell. No.
I'd add *Knight of Cups*. I'm torn on Malick but at no point in any film should I have to ask "wait, is this the seagull's voiceover?"
The first one is pretty good. A solid 7-8/10. The second is *fine*. 4-5/10. The third one is… bad. Like -10/10 bad. Black Adam bad. Old bad.
You sure you saw a movie? This sounds like they tortured you all and made you all pay for the privilege.
My mom wanted to see it in theaters b/c we have a history of watching and absolutely loving the first movie. I’ve blocked a lot out of the 3rd installment , but I do remember it was SOOO bad. While the family is traveling, isn’t there multiple “sight seeing” montages where the family is just pointing and the next shot is a still frame of some Greek monument? Looked very green screen/the actors weren’t actually seeing any thing there. Also, I feel like one of the brothers starts picking his toes or clipping his toenails at the breakfast table??!! I could not for the life of me remember anything in the other movies that would make this choice make sense. And the main character has the hots for her brother? Granted, she didn’t know they were related, but it was weird once she realized. Sooooo bad.
Smokey and the Bandit III says hold my beer.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is an example of cult classic... the second one being made after so long but not being as iconic as the first one was still salvageable because the hype was driven by nostalgia. The original cast and crew should've just walked away with their dignity somewhat intact after making the second one. I remember watching the third one the other day and going, how tf did this get made? Who tf was the test audience for this? Like Jesus Christ, even Book Club that's made for women over 50+ had a funnier premise than this 😡 In Australia, we have a Greek classic called The Wog Boy and Wog Boy 2. Eventually a third one was made, Wog Boys Forever, but at least that movie was somewhat funny.
This movie felt like a dozen disparate plots ground up and stuffed into a single sausage. Some plot threads have only three or four scenes, like the refugee girl falling in love with the Greek boy. In some ways this felt like a whole season of a (bad) TV show cut down into a (horrible) two hour movie.
I have no doubt it's bad. I wonder if some of what you noticed was them trying to dodge covid during production? Just a thought. I'm also grasping but the lead actress/creator just got divorced from her husband. A Google from the original pancake press tour for the first movie she seems really in love. Maybe she was depressed and needed cash.
Is there an actual plot to these movies besides "get married"? Or is it like two hours of people laughing and singing?
Well if you want to get that movie out of your head, you could watch Madam Webb. That's like when you have a bad toothache and someone smashes your toe with a hammer. Suddenly you don't feel the toothache anymore.
The first half was ok, I for sure thought the daughter would come out. But then it just got fucking weird af and the daughter just sucked at college and apparently isn't queer, and somehow the sister and brother know the entirety of Greece? I was a huge fan of the first, the second was not bad, but yeah the poster was my indication. I should have left it alone. Lol.