Title: Thank goodness for Nia and Toni
Product review: Perhaps I expected something less juvenile and predicatable. I did not utter so much as a giggle throughout this film. The only emotions I experienced were utter embarrassment for all the principals and admiration for Vardalos and Collette for being able to make anything of the picture, and perhaps for having the nerve to appear in it at all. Well, Nia wrote the thing so I suppose it was Toni alone who really stepped up to the plate. She could read the phone book and make it theater, but even SHE could not make me believe that she'd ever be mistaken for a drag queen. But really, why...why on earth was this picture made? Characters are totally formulaic and unbelievable. Writing seems geared toward a 15-year-old audience. Michael Lembeck's directorial style is TV-sitcom all the way. The laughs are cheap and the dialogue's feeble. But still, Vardalos and Collette light up the screen even in this worst of all possible comedies, so that's something.
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