My Big Fat Greek Wedding/YMMV

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  • Acceptable Targets: Greeks. WASPs. Possibly Turks. All Played for Laughs. (Of course, being of Greek heritage herself, Nia Vardalos is allowed to make fun of Greeks.)
  • Family-Unfriendly Aesop: Arguably. "What your groom or you wants in the wedding doesn't matter, so feel free to change anything and everything about it to suit your family."
  • Hollywood Homely: Partly averted in that, while certainly attractive, Nia Vardalos is anything but "Hollywood beautiful," and her "homely" look was genuinely convincing.

Roger Ebert: Everyone in this movie looks like they could be a real person. The romance involves not impossibly attractive people, but a 30-year-old woman who looks OK when she pulls herself out of her Frump Phase...I relaxed, knowing it was set in the real world, and not in the Hollywood alternative universe where Julia Roberts can't get a date.

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