Tired and cliche-ridden, saved only by the authentic scenery, with the movie allowed unprecedented access to sites in Greece such as The Acropolis.
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07/17/09
My Life in Ruins (2009)
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Reviews Counted:111
Fresh:11
Rotten:100
Average Rating:3.6/10
Consensus: With stereotypical characters and a shopworn plot, My Life in Ruins is a charmless romantic comedy.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Jul 16, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $8,474,608
Synopsis: From Nia Vardalos, writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, comes the uplifting comedy My Life in Ruins. Georgia (Nia Vardalos) has lost her kefi (Greek for “mojo”). Discouraged by her lack... [More]
Starring: Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss, Maria Adanez, Sheila Bernette
Director: Donald Petrie
Reviews for My Life in Ruins
Top CriticPetrie, who handled slapstick with ease in Miss Congeniality, has lost his timing with this one. There's none of the blithely nonsensical spirit that infuses the atmosphere when actors are enjoying themselves.
07/24/09
Top CriticThere's no denying Nia Vardalos' appeal as the stitched up Greek tour guide lacking in people skills who discovers there is romance in more than classical history, but it is all too simplistic and contrived
07/10/09
Top CriticThe main attraction of the film is visiting some of the great sites of Greece.
07/16/09
Top CriticThe film feels slighter than its hugely successful predecessor.
07/16/09
Top CriticThe film contains a constant stream of lowbrow gags and pratfalls as Georgia lurches her way towards happiness, romance and a secure job in the Grecian tourist trade. It's lightweight, inoffensive fluff.
07/17/09
Top CriticMy Big Fat Greek Disaster as the familiar sights of mainstream romcoms are presented in a terrible, uninspired tour.
07/12/09
Top CriticWe almost get to care about Georgia's fate, if it weren't for the fact that none of the film rings true and real
07/10/09
Top CriticEmbarrassingly bad. Will kill Greece tourism. A torturous bore.
06/02/09
Vardalos is charming.
06/05/09
Think of Shirley Valentine and take away charm, wit, realism and Pauline Collins.
10/04/09
Pleasant but overly predictable travel comedy OK for teens.
06/11/09
The simple charms of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the 2002 small movie that thrust Vardalos into the limelight, are nowhere to be found in this formulaic, weak chuckler.
06/05/09
The bland cinematography fits with the unimaginative script and the drab direction of Petrie.
06/04/09
Nia Vardalos is as charming and watchable as ever but this is cliche ridden fluff.
10/04/09
Top CriticThe shaving of a beard changes a bus driver from Sasquatch to Fabio in this sitcom-style romantic wish-fulfillment fantasy for women.
06/08/09
'Ruins' is indeed an apt descriptor for this picture.
06/05/09
Greek Wedding wasn't high art, or even high comedy, but it had a semblance of charm ... Ruins is just a wreck.
06/04/09
Half the time I wanted everyone to shut up so I could hear the tour guide lecture on the Temple of Hephaestus, or wherever. Then I wanted them to shut up so I could sleep.
06/05/09
It's too bad My Life in Ruins fails so miserably at the macro level, because there are some good moments at the micro level.
06/05/09
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