The main attraction of the film is visiting some of the great sites of Greece.
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07/16/09
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 CriticThe film feels slighter than its hugely successful predecessor.
07/16/09
Top CriticMy Big Fat Greek Disaster as the familiar sights of mainstream romcoms are presented in a terrible, uninspired tour.
07/12/09
Top 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 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 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 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 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 CriticIt feels like an uncomfortable parade of Borscht belt gags and lame stereotypes.
06/02/09
You know precisely where it’s headed and how it will get there halfway into Act One.
06/08/09
It doesn’t feel genuine at all, it feels contrived from start to finish.
06/08/09
The bland cinematography fits with the unimaginative script and the drab direction of Petrie.
06/04/09
A quasi-sequel to My Big Fat Greek Wedding that shamelessly recycles the sitcom-and-schmaltz formula of Vardalos’ breakthrough hit.
06/04/09
[A] measly little picture.
06/05/09
For a movie filled with cliches, the laughs happen so frequently that you are able to forget about the fact that you have seen this movie a billion times before.
06/05/09
You think the tour bus driver will turn out to be handsome so that Georgia can recover her mojo? Right! You think it will make the movie entertaining? Wrong!
06/04/09
The folks responsible for My Big Fat Greek Wedding have made My Life in Ruins, a second cute, shoddy-looking movie.
06/04/09
Once those gags run out, however, the film slowly drags itself back on track, finding just enough traction in a handful of earnest moments -- all involving Richard Dreyfuss -- to help audiences forget how awful it had been at the start.
06/05/09
Together, Vardalos and Dreyfuss distract us from how manufactured, forced and reliant on national stereotypes and cultural clichés the film is. Barely.
06/05/09
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
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