It looks like Toula Portokalos' dreams will come true again as Entertainment Weekly reports that Nia Vardalos' planned sequel to her hit film My Big Fat Greek Wedding will be distributed by Universal Studios. Toula of course, is the ugly duckling-turned-bride from the film, which if you haven't seen, you must have at least heard about (if you can recall your buzz all the way back to 2002).
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We hereby present the Top Three Reasons we're rooting for the sequel:
1) Nia Vardalos: she's just a good ol' Winnipeg girl! If there's one thing Canada does well, it is that we remember and claim our own who have gone on to the bright lights of Hollywood. Also, she truly seems deserving of all her success. And she makes us believe we too could one day sell a screenplay and possibly kiss John Corbett for "work."
2) There's plenty of family to go around: although we met quite a few Portokalos family members, there are plenty of them we can stand to revisit and many, many more lurking in Vardalos' imagination. Just make sure there's still room for Aunt Voula (Andrea Martin).
3) It was actually funny without being disgusting or rude: The film has a gentle, whimsical humour (though yes, it does lean heavily on stereotypes of the titular family) that gets the laughs from rich comedy gold: fish-out-of-water and outlandish characters. I'm no prude, but I could do without a romantic comedy that squeezes laughs from every portion of the human anatomy like they all seem to be doing lately. And where do you go when those jokes seem old hat?
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I've long since hung up my "oh no, not a sequel!" argument because it's nearly automatic these days that anything even halfway popular will get another outing. It is still to be confirmed but it sounds like Corbett and the majority of the cast will be willing to come on board. This is one wedding I will be RSVP'ing "will attend".
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