With stale 1970s-style sitcom humor, My Life in Ruins has none of the homey authenticity of My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
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06/05/09
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 CriticVardalos huffs that the culture that made her a millionaire is made of slackers, molesters and thieves.
06/05/09
...a hopelessly corny romantic comedy that boasts a myriad of jokes and gags that wouldn't pass muster on the hackiest of sitcoms.
06/04/09
My Life in Ruins is as torturously mediocre as Wedding was winning, an unending collection of hackneyed stereotypes.
06/04/09
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
This supposed comedy is full of big, fat Greek stereotypes, crude sexual references and jokes, and some even-more-questionable humor.
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
A quasi-sequel to My Big Fat Greek Wedding that shamelessly recycles the sitcom-and-schmaltz formula of Vardalos’ breakthrough hit.
06/04/09
Nia Vardalos is the new Yakov Smirnoff
06/04/09
Not a big departure from what Vardalos has done in the past, but there is less cloying artifice this time around, in a romantic comedy where the love story takes a backseat to the more meaningful tale of a lost woman coming into her own as a person.
06/04/09
This shambles of a romantic comedy ends up mostly as a trip to comedy hell.
06/04/09
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
My Life in Ruins comes close to being a Greek tragedy, but the actors never let the film die.
06/04/09
The best thing I can say about My Life in Ruins, a forced comedy about a woman finding love in the Greek isles, is that there's no ABBA.
06/04/09
The bland cinematography fits with the unimaginative script and the drab direction of Petrie.
06/04/09
Rarely has a film centered on a character so superficial and unconvincing, played with such unrelenting sameness. I didn't hate it so much as feel sorry for it.
06/04/09
Top CriticAs 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
Lovely scenery...stuck in a sub-sitcom script. Some of these group tours are really the pits.
06/03/09
Settling for My Life in Ruins requires a serious lowering of the bar: like digging a groove for it.
06/03/09
My Life in Ruins is a middle-aged Hallmark chick flick that makes you wish you were on a Greek vacation (and not, in fact, watching the movie).
06/03/09
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