My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

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Movie
German title My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Original title My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
Country of production USA , Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2016
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 0
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Director Kirk Jones
script Nia Vardalos
production Gary Goetzman
Tom Hanks
Rita Wilson
music Christopher Lennertz
camera Jim Denault
cut Markus Czyzewski
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 is a 2016 romantic comedy film directed by Kirk Jones . The production is a sequel to the independent comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding, released in 2002 .

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Toula helps her parents cope with everyday life and in the restaurant, the travel agency where she used to work is closed. Paris, the daughter of Toula and Ian, is now 17 years old. To avoid her intrusive family, she threatens to apply to a distant university.

Meanwhile, Grandfather Gus tries to prove that he is descended from Alexander the Great. He found out that his marriage certificate from 1963 was not signed and the marriage to his wife Maria was therefore invalid. However, Maria refuses to go to the priest at short notice to make up for the marriage because she expects a proper marriage proposal from Gus. However, Gus refuses to propose to his wife.

Aunt Voula urges Toula to bring some romance back into her marriage to Ian, which they do. However, during a fuss in the car, Toula and Ian are surprised by Gus.

When Gus is stuck in the bathtub with a blocked hip, the family first tries to free him there themselves, but then Toula calls the ambulance. When Gus is being taken away on the ambulance, he proposes to Maria after all. Maria then starts planning a really big wedding. After the wedding planner gives up the job stressed by the large family, the wedding threatens to break up and the family takes over the planning and organization of the wedding.

One day, Paris receives a place from Northwestern University in Chicago and NYU in New York City. Paris initially opts for Northwestern University. However, she later opts for New York. Paris dares to ask her classmate Bennett out on a prom date and is accepted. On the way to the prom, Paris is surprised to find that Bennett is also Greek.

As a surprise for their father, the children of Gus and Maria let his brother Panos fly in from Greece as a wedding guest. Shortly before the wedding ceremony in the church, Maria doubts whether she should actually marry Gus, but Panos can convince her that Gus still loves her as much as he loved her 50 years ago at her first wedding. Gus and Maria get married.

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At the end of May 2014 it was reported for the first time that leading actress Nia Vardalos had worked out the script for a sequel . Director Kirk Jones took over the direction.

Reviews

Antje Wessels from Filmstarts judged that My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, like the first part, scores points “with the love for the characters and the excellent chemistry between the actors”. The film stands with its "gentle, pleasing, extremely good humor in clear contrast to the crude parades" and seems "in the comedy landscape of Hollywood more than its predecessor, almost like a foreign body". Wessels also found that the production, with its everyday humor that often plays between the lines, is more reminiscent of European works such as Pretty Best Friends (2011) and Monsieur Claude und seine Töchter (2014), which dispense with jokes below the belt and slapstick and instead use “Humor in the normal twists and turns of family life ”. Cinema magazine described My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 as "remarkably old-fashioned film" and "harmless cinema fun that is surprisingly conservative even in its most frivolous moments". The film seems "like a copy of the first part over long distances", but the humor of the comedy is "all too often limited to familiar clichés". In his review for Germany Radio declared Hans-Ulrich Pönack the comedy as "Lifetime waste". The film is "much too colorful and still dusty - with excitedly presented trifles" and confirms why "TV series are so popular today". The film service called My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 a "noisy sequel", "which no longer revolves around multi-cultural problems, but about the Greek immigrant cosmos and its lack of reference to US reality". In doing so, she relies “on played jokes” and parodies “Greek-American clichés”, but largely confines herself “to the repetition of the same thing”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ deadline.com, accessed May 30, 2014
  4. ↑ Arthur A .: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 finds a director and a studio . In: Filmfutter.com . November 19, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
  5. ^ Criticism from the FILMSTARTS.de editorial team. Film releases , accessed March 29, 2016 .
  6. ↑ My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016). Cinema , accessed March 29, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Lifetime Waste. Deutschlandradio Kultur , accessed on March 29, 2016 .
  8. ^ My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2nd Film Service , accessed March 29, 2016 .