The movie was written by Nia Vardolos (Toula). This is based on her real-life experiences with her family when she stepped outside Greek culture and married her husband. So there's nothing wrong with the movie. It's cheesy, sappy, sweet, and hilarious.
My family is Italian, but the stereotypes seem to be true for a lot of first-generation kids and their immigrant parents, especially if the parents came to this country many years ago. The one constant, however, is the love the families have for their children and the close family ties...it's not always easy, but there is nothing better!
@@hannahrozenberg3411 Same!! All my family does is gossip and eat, and if I'm even the tiniest bit hungry my Bubbie will literally cook a feast for me, that's why I'm always so full!
@Raphael Baxevanis I said ITALIANS are Greeks that can swim.. it’s a joke claiming we swam across to Italy, hence Italians are originally Greeks and we came first as a civilization.
I'm half-Greek and my Thea Eva's house looked almost exactly like the one in this film. The only thing she didn't have was the Greek flag on the garage. Every year she would go to Greece and bring home some new statue or fountain and we would all get invited over to look at it. Actually, this movie felt very familiar to me in a lot of ways. My grandparents owned a restaurant and my father and his brother worked in it as kids. Their aunt was constantly playing matchmaker and they went to Greek school. Yep...very familiar.
Yeah, my grandmother literally lives in some sort of budget Greek palace by the sea. It’s full of statues and old fountains. It’s really nice when we go down to Greece.
As a Greek-American, I can confirm that this is 100% correct, except my family says that chamomile tea is the solution to all problems instead of Windex.
Just add a bit more “kids using the other as a punching bag” and a tad pinch of “eating a 5 litre ice cream tub within the span of 3 days.” That’s a bit more Greek. And Pontian!
Missed Sin: A Greek Orthodox wedding would never play instrumental music inside a church. Eastern Orthodox Christians believe that the only instrument worthy to glorify God is the human voice, so all religious music is a capella.
Actually, that's more of the Orthodox Church in America. A lot of Greek Orthodox churches use organs, but it just depends on the individual church. For example, my old church had an organ, but my current one does not.
@@Sophia_at_MIA Um no. I'm Greek that still lives in Greece. Never in my entire life have I ever went to a church that has any organs in it. And my family is very religious.
@@MillennialPanic Oh, sorry- by Orthodox Church in America I meant the OCA (formerly Ruthenian Catholic) church. I live in America and my old church had an organ, as well as some others I’ve seen, but I went to Greece this summer and you’re right- no organs in churches anywhere. What I meant is that in America, it depends on the individual parish as I’ve seen Greek Orthodox churches in the US both with and without organs.
@@Sophia_at_MIA Oh wow, I didnt know they had organs over there. I think its kind of an unwritten rule that they only use the human voice. There are churches with really good singers but especially in smaller towns you'll see old dudes with awful vocals just trying to make it through 😂
Andrea Martin (Aunt Voula)’s line about touching John Corbett (Ian)’s hair was an add lib. Andrea Marti forgot her line and made up the hair bit and John Corbett went along with it.
1:14 I’m Russian. While, we our house isn’t shaped like the Saint Basil’s Cathedral, I do have millions of statues, ornaments, snow globes, and centerpieces of Saint Basil’s Cathedral.
I remember seeing this movie in theaters with my mom and sister. We ended up with these Very Greek women behind us doing a running commentary through the entire movie. The. Entire. Movie. It drove us all nuts at first, but as it went on they became funnier and funnier and you just had to roll with it. I hope those women are doing well and speaking their minds in theaters right now.
As a Greek girl I can confirm "Nick" is one of the Greekest names ever! My father's name is Nick and he has 2 first cousins with the same name and several other family members aswell.
#31: she's supposed to sound like that, she's reciting what they practiced earlier. It's meant to be bad acting. #60: they use a baptismal font, but the joke is that he's too big to be baptized in it so they need a kiddie pool. Usually infants are baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church. #62: they use oil during baptism. It's not racist. #74: Nikolaus/Nicholas/Nikolai are very common Greek names that translate to "the people's victory"
Also you can totally get baptised without attending the church too much, you just need a friend who is on good terms with the priest. My mom got baptised right before I was without ever setting foot in a church, so I can be baptised too. My godmother was friends with the priest and a big part of the community so she asked him to do an exemption. I’m sure it’s the same for the orthodox too.
Yeah, the Orthodox Church unfortunately doesn't get many converts, even in diaspora communities outside of Orthodox Majority nations, most of the baptisms are for babies so it's not uncommon for churches to pull out a kiddie pool decorated with white cloth or a metal tub. I live in the town with the highest density of Greeks in the US, we only got an adult baptismal font last year, which I had the honor of being the 2nd person to use. And yes, you will get ridiculously oily after your baptism, you will find it in your ears, hair, and Lord knows where else
My mom's entire side of the family is of direct Greek descent from my great grandfather. This definitely isn't 100% accurate, but it's more accurate than you think. Makes me kind of worried about when I get married.
I went to see this film in theaters with two friends - one of Scandanavian heritage, and one who was Tex-Mex from El Paso. My family is Sicilian from Brooklyn. After the film, Tex Mex friend says that is so much like her family - except substitute the Greek foods for Enchaladas, language for Spanglish, etc. . I said, that's not too far off my family, except substitute Greek foods with lasagne, Italian words, etc. Our last friend said she identified with the WASP couple in the film! So hilarious!
Being an Australian from Greek ansestry, half this movie can be "Jeremy knows nothing about Greek culture as he admitted at the beginning of the video" and that sin about oranges and apples. Gosh, he doesn't understand the joke. I can literally go through every single sin here
The father saying "I don't know how long I will be alive" to get his way is very, very greek. My grandparents were talking about greatgrandchildren since I was 18. I am 24, no girlfriend and it doesn't matter if my priority is to finish college. I MUST find a girlfriend.
This is my favourite movie ever. It's like looking back at my childhood. The people in the movie are exactly the same as the Greek families I grew up around. Australia has the biggest Greek population outside Greece and this movie is so true to my experiance at least. Brilliant writing and a beautiful story.
Hair touching is apparently a thing amongst foreigners. My brother went to Korea as an English teacher, and everyone wanted to touch his hair (red) and his nose (long), and my Ukrainian friend's mother was always asking to touch my hair.
Not really, we usually display them on the 25th of March and the 28th of October which are national holidays commemorating Greek Independence and our entry into WW2 respectively.
@@jopiagalis That's odd. Where do you live? I grew up in Greece and moved to the UK at 16 (my mother's Scottish) and I only ever see Greek flags during these two dates or when the national football and basketball team play in a major tournament.
Also as a Greek Orthodox girl, I can say that the "you're all oily" line isn't racist. You're dunked in oil instead of Holy water when you're turned into Orthodox Christian e.e
My mom said it was accurate to the generation before her...I didn't believe her until my great uncle quoted the "octopus" line from the movie....that he'd never seen.
It really bothers me that the Americans here are referred to as "white" while the Greeks are Greeks. Greeks are white. When you wanna say something like "the inlaws 'character' is that theyre white", it should be "the inlaws 'character' is that theyre generic white american".
Exactly, I got the vibe who was calling the Greeks non white, which makes no sense. I mean in his defense he was just saying “white family does this cliche” but those cliches only happen when the white families are around non white families. More accurately they’re depicting a WASP family while they’re a Greek family, but both families are white.
Before WWII Greeks weren't considered as white in the USA. They were discriminated against and that's why they later stood on the side of the black movement. The Greek orthodox representative marched next to Martin Luther King for that reason.
I lived above a Greek restaurant and I got to know my 3 landlords 3 greek brothers...they did not not seem to use a huge amount of Windex..although the food thing seemed to be true..they all tried to feed us all the time lol.
12:33 (sigh) Really? Yes, we know Miller doesn't come from Greek, in the same way at the beginning of the film "kimono" doesn't either. It's sort of the running joke of the film. Not a sin, there you go.
Hey my best friend is Greek and I grew up in a very Greek neighborhood. I can say other then the hole windex cures everything joke this move is 90% accurate for Greek immigrant families. You should revise this video and have an actual Greek person help you cause this movie is really so funny cause it’s pretty true. For example my friend is George his grandfather George two of his cousins are George and every one of the grand father’s siblings (5 siblings) has at lest one son named George.
Joseph Brunetti my dad is Jim, and so are three of his cousins. Also we were super confused by the Windex thing, until one day my Yiayia was talking about this topical spray they sold in Greece in the 40s that was meant to heal wounds, and it was bright blue, so the father in the film probably saw Windex and got it confused for that stuff
I'm with the grandma thing. Not weird at all. My grandmother lives with us and we help take care of her. Have been since I was in high school. I don't even think it us weird that I haven't moved out yet because my parents work almost all the time, my little brother is still in school, and my grandmother living with us isn't as energetic or as strong as she used to be. The woman in this movie is crazy because there is nothing wrong with family, it is just every family is different. There is no 'normal family'.
It has MANY Greek stereotypes that are somewhat expanded for comedian reasons (eg: obsession for marriage), some of them are accurate and still apply on today's society some of them are not and some apply up to a degree, oh and what is up with the fact that almost everyone's name is actually a short for another name
That's actually common in other cultures....I'm Mexican, and pretty much everyone in my family has a nickname for one reason or another, and same with having an entire friend group where everyone has a nickname of some sort
It’s an ethnic group/nation, however I’ve noticed Greeks are far more accepting of their diaspora than any other European group. My grandparents on my mothers side are both from Ireland and genetically Im more Irish than anything else, yet people from Ireland do not consider me to be Irish. My great grandfather was from Greece on my dads side and while my grandmother was born in Greece she was half Croatian, yet when talking to Greeks I’m welcomed with opened arms as one of them.
Clearly the gentleman that's critiquing this movie doesn't have greek friends FROM Greece. This movie is 100% on point in the Best Way Possible. I laughed, cried and had the best time.
As a Greek, most if not all the stereotypes depicted in the movie are real, but because it is a movie, there is some exaggeration to them to make it funnier
I also quite like how when introducing the names of various family members, the father got a handful of names in, gave up, and just resorted to calling everyone "Nick" and "Nicky".
Ah yes, stereotypical "Greeks". Maybe Greek refugees back then. They only true Greek thing I remember seeing in this movie is the insistence to make more food for someone who already ate. That's 100% honest! :p (PS. I am Greek, if that didn't come across clearly)
I’m Greek and though this movie puts Greek craziness up to an 11, it’s fairly accurate. However, the baptismal sins are reality, maybe you should have researched. Babies are baptized within their first year so anyone too old to fit in the small baptismal basin gets a kiddie pool. And Ian’s oily hair is caused by EVOO being in the baptismal water. Additionally, my husband (funnily enough named Ian) has a tiny family compared to mine so at our wedding I had probably 4 times as many attendees compared to him.
Of course women are not breeding machines and the rest of the bullshit they say i mean that families live close to one another and are pretty emotionaly tied (like most family)
My mother-in-law also ignored the “brides family plans the wedding” if she hadn’t the wedding wouldn’t have been as rushed cause we wouldn’t have canceled plans and what not. And I would of had my cup cakes and the freakin small cake we did end up with. I should be happy though, we nearly wound up with brownies as the center piece of the food.
I'm a German who married into a Greek family and lives in Greece. While of course everything in the film is a bit exaggerated, pretty much everything is true. Something that was missing is that at least once a month you gather at someone's house for the nameday or birthday of relatives. With a Greek family you're constantly buying gifts for someone and usually at least two relatives share the same nameday. Ζήτω η Ελλάς ❤
I feel like you've missed a lot of the points of the movie... the wedding, for example where I inside of the family have hardly any relatives and yet you interpret that as nobody wanted to come. the movie was emphasizing how Greek familys are huge and large and the American counterparts can often be quite small
I have a greek friend and he explained that the translation of what the grandma said in greek is not quite correct. A more accurate translation would be: „Look! I know you are turks. And you took me by abduction.“
When my brother dated a Vegan my DAD TOLD HER we have chicken and souvlaki and steak She told no I am a vegan My dad told her OOH THEN EAT SOUVLAKI VERY GOOD. She told my dad NO I DONT EAT MEAT. MY DAD WAS SHOCKED. EXACTLY LIKE THIS PERSON SAID WHAAAAAT YOU DONT EAT MEAT. BUT TRY SOUVLAKI ITS GREAT.
Also, the kiddie pool is a thing, and you legit don’t need to do anything pre baptism, as most Greeks get baptized when they’re babies, so they didn’t need to do anything either. My mom got baptized just like this
It's rather obvious the person doing the critique of this film has never lived in a Greek household! I'm almost 70 and this house is the one I grew up in!! Including the "Give me any word, I'll tell you where it came from". To this day, my dad still does that. And since he's almost 92, I'll cherish it every time he says it. And the spitting thing. It's real.
Well.. 2c from a Greek :) On 12:28, Miller ->Mill and the actual Greek word for Mill is Μύλος (Mylos, which sounds exactly as Mill with the -os at the end), and they both have the same root as words. Apple is Μήλο, so this joke is more for the Greek audience than the English speaking one, as is the joke about Kimono and Winter (Himonas-Χειμώνας), totally unrelated and quite funny to make that propostrous link :) Many of the gags eg the wedding invitations in the kitchen cabinet are actually based on truths, since eg our "kitchen" is a place for lots of things "current", meaning whatever is going to be used/sent be temporarily in the house/ *and* cooking. Also when a frequent friend/visitor comes, the kitchen is the place for coffee and smalltalk, so yeah, it makes sense to have (*one*) wedding invitation in a kitchen cupboard, ready-to-be-presented :D :D Of cource everything is blown out of proportions for comedic effect and it works so well in this movie :D
You would think the church they filmed that in would have a formal baptismal. It may just be in a corner or other bad place for the shot. Then again. My big fat orthodox baptism was in a portable plastic tub with a tarp underneath it, so it’s far from immersion-breaking. You are correct that the process takes time that is glossed over though.
I have a friend whose parents are both first generation Greek and their house is almost identical to the one in this movie. The statues, the columns, the cars. The only thing they don't have is a flag on the garage. The flag hangs on the porch. They even have one small room in the house that is a shrine to their Greek Orthodox saints. It felt like walking through a giant cliche.
The reason they have a kiddie pool for the baptism is that normally Greeks are baptized as infants, so the baptismal font doesn't have to be very big. Ian is baptized as an adult, so they obviously had to figure out something else.
”15 minutes of research before the ceremony” yeah, you didn’t even make a 30 seconds research before critisizing a whole culture so maby you’re not the best person to say that.
7:44 Well, considering children are baptised after birth in a basin when entering the Church, I don't think that's gonna fit Ian, don't you think? It's called improvisation. Also, yes, this has been done before in real life. And yes, he's going to be oily because you are baptised in oil.
I’m Greek and my family and I love watching this film. If you are not Greek you obviously don’t understand. This is how Greeks act. And I’m not even joking I’ve seen it through my aunties and uncles and the elderly people. Some of my aunties and uncles have such a problem of letting my cousins go. I never had to deal with it because my mum was different thank god. Every thing in this movie is true and I’m not joking
The reason for the kiddy pools is because he is so big and the one they use for babies is not big enough for the ceremony so you need to take off a Sin.
As a Greek, I must say this movie took all the stereotypes and turned them to 11. Had quite a laugh.
As a Jew, it seems they did the same with ours (Except for the Church Scenes)
yeah but funny enough, too many of them are true.
All he stereotypes are honestly the best part xD shockingly relatable too lol half my family is called Nick and Constantinos xD
I swear to God most of these fit Armenians too
Serbian too, most of the customs are the same and stereotypes also 😁
The movie was written by Nia Vardolos (Toula). This is based on her real-life experiences with her family when she stepped outside Greek culture and married her husband.
So there's nothing wrong with the movie. It's cheesy, sappy, sweet, and hilarious.
great movie
Her real life husband is Ian’s coworker/ the other teacher. They’re divorced now.
I actually really liked the proposal scene, because it was just them, nothing fancy, just... honest feelings and intimacy.
I'm from a Greek family...
I'm a Greek girl...
Unfortunately, these stereotypes are indeed true.
Jordyn Blackburn i’m armenian but this is more then 1000000% relatable
Same lol
If you was born and raised in America you are American!
My family is Italian, but the stereotypes seem to be true for a lot of first-generation kids and their immigrant parents, especially if the parents came to this country many years ago. The one constant, however, is the love the families have for their children and the close family ties...it's not always easy, but there is nothing better!
PaoloMG if you’re born and raised in america you nationality is american, not your ethnicity, she was obviously talking about her ethnicity
If you are not Greek this movie may have come across as tacy and cheesy but it is a perfect way of displaying Greeks and extending stereotypes
I’m Jewish and i actually found the movie a bit similar to my own family.
Italian and i found it relatable too :)
@@hannahrozenberg3411 Same!! All my family does is gossip and eat, and if I'm even the tiniest bit hungry my Bubbie will literally cook a feast for me, that's why I'm always so full!
@@MadeOfMilk Italians are Greeks that can swim
@Raphael Baxevanis I said ITALIANS are Greeks that can swim.. it’s a joke claiming we swam across to Italy, hence Italians are originally Greeks and we came first as a civilization.
I'm half-Greek and my Thea Eva's house looked almost exactly like the one in this film. The only thing she didn't have was the Greek flag on the garage. Every year she would go to Greece and bring home some new statue or fountain and we would all get invited over to look at it. Actually, this movie felt very familiar to me in a lot of ways. My grandparents owned a restaurant and my father and his brother worked in it as kids. Their aunt was constantly playing matchmaker and they went to Greek school. Yep...very familiar.
Here in Greece we don't have blue and white houses is just a typical stereotype
Greeks make the best gat dang salad. Love you guys' salad.
Dqi go be qk yes few hgjpp
Theodore you don’t count as a person
Yeah, my grandmother literally lives in some sort of budget Greek palace by the sea. It’s full of statues and old fountains. It’s really nice when we go down to Greece.
As a Greek-American, I can confirm that this is 100% correct, except my family says that chamomile tea is the solution to all problems instead of Windex.
That actually is partially true! For stomach aches, sore throat, eye infection!
I'm Latina, and substitute Windex for Vicks Vapor Rub, and you got my family
I’m Italian-Canadian. Replace Windex with a heating pad and you have my mother.
@@NYChica23Lol, just like me and my Haitian family.
Coming from a Greek family that house was unfortunately not inaccurate
Feels like practically every culture other than Western European and Americans are same in this way lol
Yeah he mocked that house as over the top, but used to drive past a house in Arlington Heights that looked just like that, minus the statues.
I have family with a house almost like that
Christos Gurd I also grew up in a very VERRRY Greek house and share your name
Just add a bit more “kids using the other as a punching bag” and a tad pinch of “eating a 5 litre ice cream tub within the span of 3 days.” That’s a bit more Greek.
And Pontian!
Missed Sin: A Greek Orthodox wedding would never play instrumental music inside a church. Eastern Orthodox Christians believe that the only instrument worthy to glorify God is the human voice, so all religious music is a capella.
Actually, that's more of the Orthodox Church in America. A lot of Greek Orthodox churches use organs, but it just depends on the individual church. For example, my old church had an organ, but my current one does not.
@@Sophia_at_MIA As my first GO priest once whispered to me, "You were a Lutheran. How do you sabotage an organ?"
@@Sophia_at_MIA Um no. I'm Greek that still lives in Greece. Never in my entire life have I ever went to a church that has any organs in it. And my family is very religious.
@@MillennialPanic Oh, sorry- by Orthodox Church in America I meant the OCA (formerly Ruthenian Catholic) church. I live in America and my old church had an organ, as well as some others I’ve seen, but I went to Greece this summer and you’re right- no organs in churches anywhere. What I meant is that in America, it depends on the individual parish as I’ve seen Greek Orthodox churches in the US both with and without organs.
@@Sophia_at_MIA Oh wow, I didnt know they had organs over there. I think its kind of an unwritten rule that they only use the human voice. There are churches with really good singers but especially in smaller towns you'll see old dudes with awful vocals just trying to make it through 😂
What if it's a small skinny roman wedding?
those are still big and fat
yjhv y lol
Nah, I'd rather have 'My Big Muscular Spartan Wedding'. This is Sparta!
Disco Saturn Loves To Do Subtitled Comedies and Other Things 24/7 yes please, big beefy bois
Roman women and they're still big and fat but they're even bigger do you see the size of those dresses most of them can't even fit through a door
Andrea Martin (Aunt Voula)’s line about touching John Corbett (Ian)’s hair was an add lib. Andrea Marti forgot her line and made up the hair bit and John Corbett went along with it.
My Big Fat Grssk wedding lol
How about 'My Big Fat Geek Wedding'?
It is Greek
They did the same with all the actors names too, changing the ‘e’s to Greek ‘s’s . Fuckers.
1:14 I’m Russian. While, we our house isn’t shaped like the Saint Basil’s Cathedral, I do have millions of statues, ornaments, snow globes, and centerpieces of Saint Basil’s Cathedral.
I remember seeing this movie in theaters with my mom and sister. We ended up with these Very Greek women behind us doing a running commentary through the entire movie. The. Entire. Movie. It drove us all nuts at first, but as it went on they became funnier and funnier and you just had to roll with it. I hope those women are doing well and speaking their minds in theaters right now.
I’m a Greek guy and love this movie. It really depicts Greek people very accurately, lol
100th like
As a Greek girl I can confirm "Nick" is one of the Greekest names ever! My father's name is Nick and he has 2 first cousins with the same name and several other family members aswell.
Personal vow to never name my kid Nick for this reason. I have 3 cousins named nick and they're all the same age.
#31: she's supposed to sound like that, she's reciting what they practiced earlier. It's meant to be bad acting.
#60: they use a baptismal font, but the joke is that he's too big to be baptized in it so they need a kiddie pool. Usually infants are baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church.
#62: they use oil during baptism. It's not racist.
#74: Nikolaus/Nicholas/Nikolai are very common Greek names that translate to "the people's victory"
Also you can totally get baptised without attending the church too much, you just need a friend who is on good terms with the priest. My mom got baptised right before I was without ever setting foot in a church, so I can be baptised too. My godmother was friends with the priest and a big part of the community so she asked him to do an exemption. I’m sure it’s the same for the orthodox too.
Yeah, the Orthodox Church unfortunately doesn't get many converts, even in diaspora communities outside of Orthodox Majority nations, most of the baptisms are for babies so it's not uncommon for churches to pull out a kiddie pool decorated with white cloth or a metal tub.
I live in the town with the highest density of Greeks in the US, we only got an adult baptismal font last year, which I had the honor of being the 2nd person to use. And yes, you will get ridiculously oily after your baptism, you will find it in your ears, hair, and Lord knows where else
My mom's entire side of the family is of direct Greek descent from my great grandfather. This definitely isn't 100% accurate, but it's more accurate than you think. Makes me kind of worried about when I get married.
I went to see this film in theaters with two friends - one of Scandanavian heritage, and one who was Tex-Mex from El Paso. My family is Sicilian from Brooklyn. After the film, Tex Mex friend says that is so much like her family - except substitute the Greek foods for Enchaladas, language for Spanglish, etc. . I said, that's not too far off my family, except substitute Greek foods with lasagne, Italian words, etc. Our last friend said she identified with the WASP couple in the film! So hilarious!
Being an Australian from Greek ansestry, half this movie can be "Jeremy knows nothing about Greek culture as he admitted at the beginning of the video" and that sin about oranges and apples. Gosh, he doesn't understand the joke. I can literally go through every single sin here
The father saying "I don't know how long I will be alive" to get his way is very, very greek. My grandparents were talking about greatgrandchildren since I was 18. I am 24, no girlfriend and it doesn't matter if my priority is to finish college. I MUST find a girlfriend.
I giggled at that part too! My Yia Yia was the WORST with that kind of manipulation!
This is my favourite movie ever. It's like looking back at my childhood. The people in the movie are exactly the same as the Greek families I grew up around. Australia has the biggest Greek population outside Greece and this movie is so true to my experiance at least. Brilliant writing and a beautiful story.
Hair touching is apparently a thing amongst foreigners.
My brother went to Korea as an English teacher, and everyone wanted to touch his hair (red) and his nose (long), and my Ukrainian friend's mother was always asking to touch my hair.
Also the actor, Andrea Martin, forgot her lines at that moment and improvised the hair touching until she remembered them 😂
That party wasn't expensive for Greek standards hahaha
Its actually kinda toned down if you think about it...
Foreal though this movie was my childhood, I used to watch this movie all the time when I was 5
I’m black as hell. Me and my mom loved this movie. The best part is when she couldn’t pronounce “biopsy” lmaoooo
As a Greek I can say that everything in this movie is accurate.
Can confirm as well, from my Greek, Italian and Ashkenazi parts of my family. Dating....is stressful and Toula is so relatable.
#1: They aren't all Greek
1 minute old and justin y already here
Dont you have like, a life
i dont, im just curious
Justin beiber how??
Jasiel Rosas Almeida Will you quit? No one cares about your big brother or your crips. Go fuck yourself I'm sick of seeing you
The devil works hard, Justin Y. works harder.
Leave
I will say that the greek flag on the house is pretty accurate. You’ll see loads of greek flags outside apartments in greece lol
Not really, we usually display them on the 25th of March and the 28th of October which are national holidays commemorating Greek Independence and our entry into WW2 respectively.
John Smith you’re right but I’ve seen flags on my street that stay out all year
@@jopiagalis That's odd. Where do you live? I grew up in Greece and moved to the UK at 16 (my mother's Scottish) and I only ever see Greek flags during these two dates or when the national football and basketball team play in a major tournament.
You see a lot of American flags on and around residences in the US too admittedly.
This never happens or you saw a house of an extremist family.
Me a greek person: my big fat grssk wedding
Yeap you right
you are not really really Greek.
@@apostolosfilippos A person who is of Greek heritage born/ living in a country outside of Greece is still Greek.
Also as a Greek Orthodox girl, I can say that the "you're all oily" line isn't racist. You're dunked in oil instead of Holy water when you're turned into Orthodox Christian e.e
Nia is really pretty, she looked great for her age. Though she didn't look 30, more like 35. But she was 40? Wow!
I mean, obviously the movie shows exaggerated stereotypes, but it’s also kind of accurate 😂
My mom said it was accurate to the generation before her...I didn't believe her until my great uncle quoted the "octopus" line from the movie....that he'd never seen.
*_I'm guessing the ending is they call off the wedding and go to showmars_*
It really bothers me that the Americans here are referred to as "white" while the Greeks are Greeks. Greeks are white. When you wanna say something like "the inlaws 'character' is that theyre white", it should be "the inlaws 'character' is that theyre generic white american".
Exactly, I got the vibe who was calling the Greeks non white, which makes no sense. I mean in his defense he was just saying “white family does this cliche” but those cliches only happen when the white families are around non white families. More accurately they’re depicting a WASP family while they’re a Greek family, but both families are white.
And the actors in question are Canadians, and rather well known.
Before WWII Greeks weren't considered as white in the USA. They were discriminated against and that's why they later stood on the side of the black movement. The Greek orthodox representative marched next to Martin Luther King for that reason.
I lived above a Greek restaurant and I got to know my 3 landlords 3 greek brothers...they did not not seem to use a huge amount of Windex..although the food thing seemed to be true..they all tried to feed us all the time lol.
To be fair, the proposal isn't that weird, that's actually how I proposed to my wife.
As an extremely greek person this movie is actually quite realistic and this video was great
I’m Greek, and this movie is loved by my family, we don’t find anything racist with it and laugh at every joke
No it's 100% relatable to me, my family is part greek, and it applies to the other parts of my family too
FAIL, FAILURE, YOUR ALL FAILURES, such a missed opportunity to sin every time they said the word “greek” at the end, such a missed opportunity...
12:33 (sigh) Really? Yes, we know Miller doesn't come from Greek, in the same way at the beginning of the film "kimono" doesn't either. It's sort of the running joke of the film. Not a sin, there you go.
1:20, in defence of this movie, that is an actual house in Toronto, including the statues and garage flag.
Hey my best friend is Greek and I grew up in a very Greek neighborhood. I can say other then the hole windex cures everything joke this move is 90% accurate for Greek immigrant families. You should revise this video and have an actual Greek person help you cause this movie is really so funny cause it’s pretty true. For example my friend is George his grandfather George two of his cousins are George and every one of the grand father’s siblings (5 siblings) has at lest one son named George.
Joseph Brunetti my dad is Jim, and so are three of his cousins.
Also we were super confused by the Windex thing, until one day my Yiayia was talking about this topical spray they sold in Greece in the 40s that was meant to heal wounds, and it was bright blue, so the father in the film probably saw Windex and got it confused for that stuff
This is so accurate. All of family members are named: Nick, Mary, Helen, Josh, Sophia, Jimmy, Philip, Maria, George and Gus.
Sin yourself for taking CinemaSins seriously except for satire
MarloSoBalJr
There are just other things I feel like they could have sinned
I'm not Greek but Italian. We have 3 Davids, 3 Mikes, and 3 Johns but no repeats of girls names.
*Why you want to leave meeee? cries*
Honestly, that is my favorite part of the movie.
Haven't they already sinned this movie? I could have sworn I've heard this before....
As you can see in the description it's a reupload:) they have to reupload the videos because youtube keeps on deleting them.
Every Saturday is a re upload. Tuesday and Thursday are new shit
@@RasenRendanX ohhh. So I'm not going crazy then. Good. lol
@@CeltycSparrow Lol dont worry i understand.
DETH-SSSSCRIPP-TIONNN !!!
biggest sin is it making me think a non greek would fall in love with me
Lol. Plenty of mullet headed dudes who will fall in love with women who can't run away fast enough!
Maybe you need a makeover and some contact lenses and work in a travel agent (are there still travel agents nowadays?)
Kaitlyn Fulmore you’re crazy. Greeks are the best. And I’m not Greek but I am orthodox
I'm liking a Greek IN Greece & I'm American! I think He's different/unique & wonderful! Keep faith💙
Oh, dear sir, you clearly do NOT know many Greek families!
Still, this is HILARIOUS :)!!!
I'm with the grandma thing. Not weird at all. My grandmother lives with us and we help take care of her. Have been since I was in high school. I don't even think it us weird that I haven't moved out yet because my parents work almost all the time, my little brother is still in school, and my grandmother living with us isn't as energetic or as strong as she used to be. The woman in this movie is crazy because there is nothing wrong with family, it is just every family is different. There is no 'normal family'.
It has MANY Greek stereotypes that are somewhat expanded for comedian reasons (eg: obsession for marriage), some of them are accurate and still apply on today's society some of them are not and some apply up to a degree, oh and what is up with the fact that almost everyone's name is actually a short for another name
That's actually common in other cultures....I'm Mexican, and pretty much everyone in my family has a nickname for one reason or another, and same with having an entire friend group where everyone has a nickname of some sort
*Whats the unmarried daughter* ? : _The appendix_
4 minutes in and every single one of his comments boils down to "I didn't understand that this was a comedy!" I'm going to watch something else.
The final sin is thinking Greek is a race.
As a 100% Greek girl who lives in Athens, I can confirm we don't think so, we think Greek is a nation. Of course the movie is wrong again xD
It’s an ethnic group/nation, however I’ve noticed Greeks are far more accepting of their diaspora than any other European group. My grandparents on my mothers side are both from Ireland and genetically Im more Irish than anything else, yet people from Ireland do not consider me to be Irish. My great grandfather was from Greece on my dads side and while my grandmother was born in Greece she was half Croatian, yet when talking to Greeks I’m welcomed with opened arms as one of them.
Clearly the gentleman that's critiquing this movie doesn't have greek friends FROM Greece. This movie is 100% on point in the Best Way Possible. I laughed, cried and had the best time.
As a Greek, most if not all the stereotypes depicted in the movie are real, but because it is a movie, there is some exaggeration to them to make it funnier
“Why you want to leave me?” 😂
I also quite like how when introducing the names of various family members, the father got a handful of names in, gave up, and just resorted to calling everyone "Nick" and "Nicky".
Ah yes, stereotypical "Greeks". Maybe Greek refugees back then. They only true Greek thing I remember seeing in this movie is the insistence to make more food for someone who already ate. That's 100% honest! :p
(PS. I am Greek, if that didn't come across clearly)
musicaddictor_anniepapaz how would u know, your not even Greek
musicaddictor_anniepapaz as a Greek this is still VERY true. I assume you’re not Greek if you’ve only experienced one of all those stereotypes.
Agree
Eh quite a few stereotypes were pretty on point tbh as a son of a first generation Greek family, I can attest to that
Rafael Koliadis my uncles been here since his late 20s he’s 65 now and his English is still pretty trash 🤷🏻♂️
My moms half Greek and this is what a family reunion with them looks like
I’m Greek and though this movie puts Greek craziness up to an 11, it’s fairly accurate. However, the baptismal sins are reality, maybe you should have researched. Babies are baptized within their first year so anyone too old to fit in the small baptismal basin gets a kiddie pool. And Ian’s oily hair is caused by EVOO being in the baptismal water. Additionally, my husband (funnily enough named Ian) has a tiny family compared to mine so at our wedding I had probably 4 times as many attendees compared to him.
This is a wonderful movie and I recommend it to everybody.
Fuck this movie. 🍆🎥
@@edwardgaines6561 Why?
@@CrashBashL Because it is nauseatingly female-centric. Not to mention it's out of date, since the marriage rate has declined to sub-atomic levels.
@@edwardgaines6561 so?
@@JohnDoe-vw4zf *SO THE BIRTH RATE.*
Say hi to the Islamic/Hispanic majority in 2050. And I welcome it.
The most important sin is that .... WE DONT SAY OPA
You've proven this movie has yet another false stereotype. Mazal Tov.
??? We say opa all the time
@@NintendoMaster363 I grew up with a Greek family (our parents became best friends and their kids and I too) and we never say "Opa" lol.
My father would say opa when picking me up as a kid. Other than that no one ever has said that in front of me
@TonyTheNerd *Literally unwatchable*
A man from debtland here. This is a rather accurate depiction of a greek family tbh
Of course women are not breeding machines and the rest of the bullshit they say i mean that families live close to one another and are pretty emotionaly tied (like most family)
Cinemasins destroying romcoms is my new favorite outfit
The family was completely accurate in my experience.
My mother-in-law also ignored the “brides family plans the wedding” if she hadn’t the wedding wouldn’t have been as rushed cause we wouldn’t have canceled plans and what not. And I would of had my cup cakes and the freakin small cake we did end up with. I should be happy though, we nearly wound up with brownies as the center piece of the food.
Pretty sure Aunt Voula sounding like she's reading cue cards is on purpose. She DOESN'T want to have Toula work at the travel agency.
This movie is actually a fantastic depiction of American Greek people though tbh 😂
Yes you are right, Greek Americans NOTHING to do with Greeks
I'm a German who married into a Greek family and lives in Greece. While of course everything in the film is a bit exaggerated, pretty much everything is true.
Something that was missing is that at least once a month you gather at someone's house for the nameday or birthday of relatives. With a Greek family you're constantly buying gifts for someone and usually at least two relatives share the same nameday.
Ζήτω η Ελλάς ❤
1:14 if they made a “my big fat Australian wedding” the house would just be a tin roof shack in the middle of the outback😂
I feel like you've missed a lot of the points of the movie... the wedding, for example where I inside of the family have hardly any relatives and yet you interpret that as nobody wanted to come. the movie was emphasizing how Greek familys are huge and large and the American counterparts can often be quite small
The most LUCRATIVE INDEPENDENT FILM OF ALL TIME. Let that sink in. 🤦🏻♀️
I have a greek friend and he explained that the translation of what the grandma said in greek is not quite correct. A more accurate translation would be: „Look! I know you are turks. And you took me by abduction.“
12:38 I actually thought that was touching and brilliant, taking an analogy about difference and making a point about commonality.
When my brother dated a Vegan my DAD TOLD HER we have chicken and souvlaki and steak She told no I am a vegan My dad told her OOH THEN EAT SOUVLAKI VERY GOOD. She told my dad NO I DONT EAT MEAT. MY DAD WAS SHOCKED. EXACTLY LIKE THIS PERSON SAID WHAAAAAT YOU DONT EAT MEAT. BUT TRY SOUVLAKI ITS GREAT.
_They arent even big and fat smh_
Ok but as a Greek person from North America, this movie is 100% accurate. I know all these characters irl. It’s amazing
Also, the kiddie pool is a thing, and you legit don’t need to do anything pre baptism, as most Greeks get baptized when they’re babies, so they didn’t need to do anything either.
My mom got baptized just like this
The title of the movie: *Ding
I know many Greek people, and lemme tell you, this is more of a documentary than a comedy.
90% accurate to my greek family. Same energy as my Ashkenazi and Italian family members too.
Has CinemaSins done a video on A Cloudly Chance of Meatballs?
DrDino no
@@bacon6178 They should.
They totally should!
they haven't because it's the perfect movie. aside from shrek.
@@ujlt7198 true. But the CWAC sequel...deserves all the sins.
It's rather obvious the person doing the critique of this film has never lived in a Greek household! I'm almost 70 and this house is the one I grew up in!! Including the "Give me any word, I'll tell you where it came from". To this day, my dad still does that. And since he's almost 92, I'll cherish it every time he says it. And the spitting thing. It's real.
Well.. 2c from a Greek :) On 12:28, Miller ->Mill and the actual Greek word for Mill is Μύλος (Mylos, which sounds exactly as Mill with the -os at the end), and they both have the same root as words. Apple is Μήλο, so this joke is more for the Greek audience than the English speaking one, as is the joke about Kimono and Winter (Himonas-Χειμώνας), totally unrelated and quite funny to make that propostrous link :) Many of the gags eg the wedding invitations in the kitchen cabinet are actually based on truths, since eg our "kitchen" is a place for lots of things "current", meaning whatever is going to be used/sent be temporarily in the house/ *and* cooking. Also when a frequent friend/visitor comes, the kitchen is the place for coffee and smalltalk, so yeah, it makes sense to have (*one*) wedding invitation in a kitchen cupboard, ready-to-be-presented :D :D Of cource everything is blown out of proportions for comedic effect and it works so well in this movie :D
You would think the church they filmed that in would have a formal baptismal. It may just be in a corner or other bad place for the shot. Then again. My big fat orthodox baptism was in a portable plastic tub with a tarp underneath it, so it’s far from immersion-breaking.
You are correct that the process takes time that is glossed over though.
This film is so big & fat it literally got stuck in my VHS and broke the damn thing.
I have a friend whose parents are both first generation Greek and their house is almost identical to the one in this movie. The statues, the columns, the cars. The only thing they don't have is a flag on the garage. The flag hangs on the porch. They even have one small room in the house that is a shrine to their Greek Orthodox saints. It felt like walking through a giant cliche.
Do Everything Wrong with The Wolf of Wall Street for sake!!!
Please.
For sake? Why would Japanese rice wine make them want to do any particular movie?
@@jjlonsdale5971 What?😶
How has he not done that?!!!
I'd do it.. for hot sake!
@@jjlonsdale5971 I was going to type that...
10:10 You sinned that, but not Voula stumbling over the word "biopsy", which is a Greek word that she should have no trouble saying?
7:37 ..... “Nikki isn’t going to be MY godmother.” 😂😂😂
The joke 'bout assaulting the spoon was good. Hahahaha.
Well, there must be something wrong with your wedding, Jeremy, if you’re calling it names like that!
The reason they have a kiddie pool for the baptism is that normally Greeks are baptized as infants, so the baptismal font doesn't have to be very big. Ian is baptized as an adult, so they obviously had to figure out something else.
Everything wrong with CinemaSins
1: They Cuss
2:SINS
3: Sometimes they say they won't win, BUT THEY SIN ANYWAY!
4: nothing. This is the end
5. Boner "jokes"
”15 minutes of research before the ceremony” yeah, you didn’t even make a 30 seconds research before critisizing a whole culture so maby you’re not the best person to say that.
Aunt Voula deserves a sin removed.
7:44 Well, considering children are baptised after birth in a basin when entering the Church, I don't think that's gonna fit Ian, don't you think? It's called improvisation. Also, yes, this has been done before in real life. And yes, he's going to be oily because you are baptised in oil.
Yes i have been to a baptism of one of my Albanian friends before (13) it was almost exactly like that just in a smaller church
Sin 1: not all of them qualify as fat
I’m Greek and my family and I love watching this film. If you are not Greek you obviously don’t understand. This is how Greeks act. And I’m not even joking I’ve seen it through my aunties and uncles and the elderly people. Some of my aunties and uncles have such a problem of letting my cousins go. I never had to deal with it because my mum was different thank god. Every thing in this movie is true and I’m not joking
Please rip apart The Rugrats Movie. That film destroyed me as a child
Was it Dil who mostly ruined it, or other things?
Chibi Lychee All of it but the part where Tommy is holding the dessert over Dil’s face in the forest in the pouring rain still gets me
As someone who has eaten Greek food before, this movie is spot on. The spanakopita was depicted with 100% accuracy.
The reason for the kiddy pools is because he is so big and the one they use for babies is not big enough for the ceremony so you need to take off a Sin.
K M right? And he doesn’t say “I’m Greek now” because of the oil he says it because of the baptism.
Dad: "Who knows how long I'm going to be alive?"
Till 2021, sigh