My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 English Movie

What was a fun, breezy, sharp and touching comedy about families and love and large people is now watered down, not so funny and tries very hard to be about families. This sequel is too late and too little. What worked then for the plus sized heroine who is now fashionably thin, is just tiresome. May 13, 2016 By Manisha Lakhe

The original film was funny, simply because it showed the family equation working to intrude upon and ruin the large sized heroine's love life. And the title worked too because the love was so endearing. Now it's just fat. It needs trimming and all that you loved about the intrusive family now tries your patience.

Yes, the writing is funny in bits. How grandpa picks up everyone to drop them off for school, how everyone lives next door to each other and so on, but the rest you have seen before. And the wedding? This time the wedding idea is so stretched, you groan and groan and groan again.

Toula (Nia Vardalos) and Ian (John Corbett) now have been married long enough to have a 17 year old. That means teenage rebellion. And because they're Greek, it means interfering family that does not make you laugh. It makes you wonder why the 17 year old has not run away before.

There's a lot of rolling eyes, rolling pastry dough, and spanakopita. There's that desperate attempt to get grandpa to get online, to show granny to be weird, to show managing aunts and cousins and stupid neighbors. This sequel has come too late and although it has its moments, it is not funny at all. Wait for it to show up on cable.