ArdentViewer
As much as I enjoyed the original, I wish I could sing the praises of the sequel. But this is one movie that would have been better left to the imagination. It has all of the original characters, along with all of the original jokes and conflict and story. But it was neither funny nor original this time around. The attempts to inject new life into the franchise by the marital conflict, rebellious teenage daughter, and possibly non-marriage of the Portokalos patriarch and matriarch fell flat for me. What was amusing and unique the first time around was simply flat and repetitive now. The characters seemed more like caricatures, and the charades and shenanigans were irritating. I was not drawn in by the contrived plot, nor sympathetic to the characters. I did not care what happened to them and I found myself wanting the movie to be over. I was watching on a plane and was not able to quite finish the movie, but was unbothered. I think fans of the original will be sorely disappointed. This is one film easily missed.
Brian S
Whilst not unwatchable, it is mildly amusing if you tune out, it really is just a pale follow up to the first film. Does not really have a story as such and don't expect wit, more half wit actually. Which is probably what you will feel like after you watch it, as in, why did I bother. The actors are all quite good and professional but the script and direction are woeful. No real plot no real story just a bunch of scenes with caricatures of Greek families by people who probably don't know any Greek families. It is supposed to be a comedy but really I did not find much in the way of belly laughs so cannot recommend it.Try another instead.
SquigglyCrunch
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 follows our main characters from the previous movie when they learn that their parents weren't officially married, and how they go about doing this. I have nothing good to say about this movie. Most everything was average, but there were a few things that stood out as exceptionally bad. To start, the movie advertises itself as a comedy, yet it fails to be funny. The parents were minor characters in the previous movie, so we got only a little bit of their humor every once in a while, and thus the humor never got old. But in this movie they take center stage, and they are boring. The whole joke becomes "they have an accent. Ha ha funny, right?" Most of the jokes from the previous movie aren't even incorporated. Occasionally we might get something, but it was already stale in the first movie, so it doesn't work anymore. Every other attempt at humor was often so far fetched it just didn't work, or just so cringey that it was hard to laugh through the disgusted face already spread across your face. Comedic references to the previous movie were made as well, but they were often much less original and simply existed as a reference. Moreover, they were often very forced scenes, again for the sake of a reference. Also, there's a daughter in this movie. I don't know why she's there, she starts out as the central conflict, but I guess when time restraints came in that part just ended and the main plot started. She acts all moody at first and hates her family and stuff, then without the usual formulaic scene where she gets over it and loves her family she just starts loving them anyway. There's this sudden shift from hate to love, and it's never explained and comes completely out of nowhere. Why? Because the movie couldn't balance two conflicts at once and time restraints. That's what I think, anyway. In fact, all the characters suck. The plot is made out to be a huge deal by these people, when it quite simply isn't. And the ending is so stupidly forced. It doesn't make any sense, but simply exists for the sake of following the cliché formula of wedding movies. It tries to force tears or at least some kind of feeling, yet it gives the audience no reason to get invested in any of these characters. The only feeling this movie induced was boredom. Yeah, there's nothing better than an unfunny, boring comedy, right? Wrong. Overall this is just a really bad movie. There's nothing good about it, but there's plenty to hate. The comedy isn't funny, and the characters are stupid and underdeveloped. And to top it off, it's boring. In the end I wouldn't recommend this movie. Just watch the first one again, or something else entirely.
