My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

The first film was funny, unexpected and charming in the best tradition of a romantic comedy. The sequel was horrendously unnecessary, harmless and relied fairly heavily on the tricks of the old one to give us the impression that we needed it again.

I think there are a hundred different ways that MBFGW2 could have been entertaining and interesting, but instead, they just threw together a half-baked story with one-liners and quips and hoped that they could skate by on nostalgia.

Given how many other not great movies have subjected us to sequels, I don't really mind this belated revival of the original, but there's absolutely no reason to watch it when you can just pop in the tape of the first film and use your own imagination into how the family must be now.

If I hadn’t been on a long flight with free movies, there’s no way I’d have watched this. But I figured I could get a review out of it and I enjoyed the first one. The sequel had an impossible bar to climb and they limboed well beneath it.

-Ron