My Big Fat Greek Wedding Analysis

My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a Hollywood-style romantic comedy, about Toula Portokalos a 30-year-old single woman in Chicago, A Greek descendant, being raised in a highly traditional family. I am going to compare the American culture to that of the Portokalos family.
The movie starts at her family’s restaurant, Dancing Zorba’s, where she is incessantly reminded that her clock is ticking. In conformity with her family’s standard, women that are not married and popping out babies, work in the family restaurant, and are seen as disappointments. Toula comes from a traditional Greek upbringing in where all women are expected to marry from their own ethnic background namely Greeks. According to Toula “There are three things that every Greek woman must do in life: marry Greek boys, make Greek babies, and feed

He says his last name, “Portokalos, means orange (like the fruit) in Greek. And the root of the word Miller is Greek, and means apple in Greek.” He says “In the end, we’re all fruit.”
My Big Fat Greek wedding shows views of the world of traditional Greek culture, the food, the loudness, and the strong family values. The movie portrays the need to overcome differences while not diminishing the beauty of tradition. Ian’s shows acculturation since he allowed the priest to baptize him and bring him into the church and thus allowing for Ian and Toula to be married. Therefore it can be concluded that Ian’s decision to be baptized is a great show of love for Toula, he will also see how it is to be in a Greek Orthodox family and may participate in traditions or actions of his wife’s family.
In general the movie was okay, I don’t really enjoy comedy movies that much, but this movie does a decent job of showing cultural differences between Greek and American. However as a comedy many of the details are exaggerated for sensationalism, but the themes are real-life issues that many cultures