MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING (2002) ***1/2 Love, it turns out, doesn't need to conquer anything, because it internalizes and assimilates. Love makes smooth what was once rough, and briefly appeared rougher. Love shines beauty on spaces that were once spare, love turns awkwardness to individualized elegance, and terror to pride. Joel Zwick knows that he has great lines, big lines, and funny lines, and he plays them like a lifelong poker player. Moments of pathos are quickly emcompassed by humour, just the way that it happens if real life if you can hang on, and pay attention, long enough. John Corbett and Nia Vardalos fall into these characters too naturally for it be anything but kismet, even given, especially given, entirely because of the impossibility of the characters as initially presented. Incredible cast brings peripheral characters to life with a scattered line, sometimes less. Andrea Martin is historic, but there's aesthetic culpability in allowing Michael Constantine, Bruce Gray or Fiona Reid to go unmentioned. Still, it's certainly also true that strange things go on in the bus station.
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