finished watching My Big Fat Greek Wedding 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
A fairly average romcom, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, while generally an endearing movie with a fun theme of cultural clashes, lacks a little pizazz with it's story, and doesn't quite send the message one thinks it should be sending.

While one sees the start of the film with it's (relatively average) monologue, and finds themselves thinking that the film is going to have a message about women's traditional gender roles, the progression of that kind of story suddenly flips when "the one" just walks into the main character's life, and from there the story becomes one of "how do we adhere to traditional gender roles if you're the wrong ethnicity?".

One would almost expect this movie to have been written by Gus with how the movie, despite showcasing Greeks as goofy, ends up embracing everything Greek when, from the start of the film and throughout it, Toula makes it clear she doesn't quite fit in with the culture of her family. It gets to the point of being ridiculous with how Ian's parents are shown to be borderline disgusted with Toula's Greek family with interactions that are generally mundane, where only a person who'd want to show how great Greeks are (such as Gus), would include such over-the-top reactions.

The movie borderline has no conflicts, which admittedly makes it a bit unexciting to watch. Any conflicts are minor, immediately move on, and generally end with capitulation to Toula's family in order to make them feel better despite her best interests. Whereas the start of the movie showcases Toula as a perfect candidate to stand up to her family to live the life she wants, the film instead gives Toula the injustice of making her weak, unable to stand up for herself, and ultimately conforming to the life she rolled her eyes to at the film's start.

Generally the movie is fine, and people who like a generic romcom experience will enjoy this as the comedy in the movie is generally pretty good, however the plot direction and what this movie *could have* been frustrates me too much to give it a higher rating.