THE FIRST TIP FOR EVERYONE: IF YOU LIKE 'GREEK WEDDING' SERIES, DO NOT WATCH.
OK, first of all, I ditched the 3 thesis due in two weeks, to watched its pre-screen. Ended up feeling the movie drives me on rage, because it absolutely ruined the soft spot I had for this series.
Regardless this movie, the first movie was epic in my heart, the second one was OK. But this one is an absolute waste of time. The reason I liked this series before was large extent due to the Greek family portrayed aka Toula's family is got many similarities with my cultural background. Sometimes we felt annoyed for a big family, but we stick together, bare with each other, and solving problem together. I guess that's the reason this series left a soft spot in my heart. This time, Toula said the same words, but acting completely different from what she saying-Please don't get me wrong. Because the thing driven me rage in this movie was about Toula's mum. She was always one of the favourite character I Love from previous movies, Toula received so much support and love from her, but unbelievable thing is that Toula was not even actually cared about her mum a second in this movie. I did not understand why she would tell her mum her husband got a history with another women and had a kid she never knew that existed. WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO HER?? That was what I wanted to shout in the theatre, since in the beginning of the movie Toula said something like my mum just pretending like she is OK, she had a hard time because their dad passed away balabalabala, and than you just told her this???I honestly did not get it, and after that Toula just said to Nick: It's ok. I mean HOW COULD THAT BE OK??? If I am Toula...seriously I would immediately flight back to Chicago besides her mum, see, she is old, she showed the symptoms of dementia, she lost her husband, and now her husband got a kid with someone else but she did not know??You think for a old lady it will be OK??HOW?? The biggest problem about the movie is actually here: the writer actually trying to put every single flavour she thought about in the story, but it just made the plot pointless. The core idea about the movie is about family and tier, and this movie was dedicated to the actor of Toula's father. But how's it actually about her father? He just became the background, but the main story just bizarre, chaos, and bunch of strangers who suddenly becoming even more important than Toula's actual mother who was only, and needs her caring. Plus, as the main reason bought her to Greece, those old friends of her dad just appeared less than 5 mins than that's it?? OK Greek can be crowded, annoyed, passionate, wired, but what they cares about the most is their family. Thus, when Toula berried her dad in Greece without let her mum knew, I rage. When I saw Toula's mum upset but she did not doing anything, I rage. OK, the strangers I am talking about are actually related to her, that is the truth, but you can not just leaved the Greek mum who feed you, raised you, and support you every time from your stubborn dad along, but in the end of the movie says LET US PICK OUR MUM AND HAD A BIG FAMILY DINNER. For me its just waste of money to watch such things in my mid term, I have no idea what this movie tried to talking about. I loved the series always because Nia Vardalos, she got the energy I like, but this time the personality of Toula really pissed me off, the saddest pre-screen I ever watched.
