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Mitchell Cope
Master Film Handler

Posts: 256
From: Overland Park, KS, United States
Registered: Jun 99

posted 04-16-2004 05:40 AM

To me this was a better film than "My Big Fat Greek Wedding". Nia Vardalos really has a great screen presence. Toni Collette is also good. She has quite an acting range. I'm always expecting her to be in her depressing, moody type persona. Here she is just the opposite.

Lots of songs from famous Broadway musicals, most or all never sung to the end. If they were smart, they would have made a CD of all the songs sung in their entirety.

It's a question if this movie can do as well as MBFGW. The audience for that was probably the older crowd that never gets out to movies and more in the "conservative" vein. It was word of mouth that got people in the theaters for MBFGW.

Here, this movie is about cross dressing and gender identity. I don't see this movie being able to succeed with the same audience and the same word of mouth. It's going to be interesting.

The audience I saw it with liked it alot. Lots of laughs. I'd give it a [thumbsup]

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Eric Hooper
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 532
From: Fort Worth, TX, USA
Registered: May 2003

posted 04-27-2004 10:49 AM

I thought the movie was fun and entertaining until the end. I thought the end was a total sell out to the straight crowd. The movie deals with the issues cross-gender people deal with, but it never quite resolves them fully. The end of the movie was suddenly about the David Duchovny finding out Vardalos was an actual woman and how that's better than anything else that was touched on in the movie and how 'that's the right way to end things' - all straight and innocent. I kind of felt ripped off.

Perhaps I wanted too much out of the end. Otherwise, the movie was great fun. Well written jokes and lots of laugh out loud moments. The subject matter and guys kissing and all may be too much for the mainstream audiences, and unfortunately this will keep the BO receipts low for this movie. 3/5 Stars.

PS: I saw this at Carl Martin's excellent theatre in Berkeley. Great picture and sound! Good job Carl. [thumbsup]

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Carl Martin
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1424
From: Oakland, CA, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 04-27-2004 03:57 PM

wow, thank you, eric!

as for the film, i enjoyed it. you have to use the brainkeeper on your way in, but there are some good physical performances and the leads are charismatic. i liked it a lot more than greek wedding (way overhyped) but this one isn't doing any business at all, so i expect it'll be gone next week.

carl

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