We almost get to care about Georgia's fate, if it weren't for the fact that none of the film rings true and real
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07/10/09
My Life in Ruins (2009)
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Reviews Counted:110
Fresh:11
Rotten:99
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 CriticMy Big Fat Greek Disaster as the familiar sights of mainstream romcoms are presented in a terrible, uninspired tour.
07/12/09
Top CriticTired and cliche-ridden, saved only by the authentic scenery, with the movie allowed unprecedented access to sites in Greece such as The Acropolis.
07/17/09
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 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 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 CriticThe film is sweet and has a jolly holiday feel but is sadly let down by Nia's unfunny acting.
10/04/09
This laboured romantic comedy has little to recommend it beyond the picture-postcard locations.
10/04/09
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
Vardalos huffs that the culture that made her a millionaire is made of slackers, molesters and thieves.
06/05/09
Feels like its been churned out by some auto-plot generator.
10/04/09
Top CriticMight as well be called My Big Fat Greek Package Holiday.
10/04/09
It doesn’t feel genuine at all, it feels contrived from start to finish.
06/08/09
You know precisely where it’s headed and how it will get there halfway into Act One.
06/08/09
What you wind up with is a comedy in ruins with the one exception of Richard Dreyfus, who plays a widowed jokester with such class and warmth, you can almost start liking American tourists again. Almost.
05/31/09
An aggressively awful opening 20 minutes gives way to over-the-top characterizations and an increasingly wan series of bits aping film moments we've all seen before, executed with more grace and charm.
06/12/09
As bubbly a talent as Vardalos is, Ruins is profoundly nauseating, and grows increasingly repellent the more it pushes to charm. Greece deserves a better travelogue than this, and a better spokeswoman than Nia Vardalos.
06/04/09
Through it all, Vardalos is a trouper, with a distinctive screen presence and delayed-reaction timing.
06/05/09
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