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One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The critics are fair, the posibilities to make a better film , using admirable actors, are many. but..., against not the best script, cliches, thin stories, flat characters, it is a nice film. and that is, in fact, the most important thing. because it is the film of Nia Vardalos, saving many scenes, it is occasion for Richard Dreyfuss to give a lovely character and , for viewer, it is a modest opportunity to meet a sketch of Greece, a sort of love story and the effort of team to do reasonable film about vacation and its people. and, maybe, it is enough. for a nice result who, being, at the first sigh only an improvisation, could be defined as version of "My Big Greek Wedding".

Georgia Ianakopolis (Nia Vardalos) is an American in Greece teaching English. She lost her job and is stuck as a poor tour guide. She's not a very happy gal and usually given the bad tour group. She keeps trying to teach Greek culture to the tour but they would rather have fun. Irv Gideon (Richard Dreyfuss) is the jokester who teaches her to have fun. Big Al (Harland Williams) and Kim Sawchuck (Rachel Dratch) are the ugly American couple. The group is filled with outlandish people from around the world. Poupi Kakas (Alexis Georgoulis) is the bus driver and the bus is a wreck. The other tour guide Nico is trying to get Georgia fired.Georgia could be a reasonable flustered single girl but the movie piles on too much on her. She's also a bit too angry at the start. The tour group has too many ridiculous people. Harland Williams and Rachel Dratch are the worst overplaying the ugly Americans. They are not funny. Georgia's constant complaining is not funny either. The movie works better when they dig into their problems and Georgia loosens up. The first half is a horrible unfunny broad comedy. The second half is slightly better when they start acting more human-like. It's not much better. At least it doesn't get worst.

As a professional tour guide I think the movie is a very close approach to the real tour experience dealing with all kind of people, problems on the road, hotel reservations, personal matters, etc. I enjoyed watching the movie and I recommend it to all my colleagues and future tour guides.I am planning using the movie to take a test to my students by watching the movie and getting important lessons about guiding and dealing with people. As many other professions, the key is to enjoy what you do, to suit the peoples's interests to the tour script and make traveling a wonderful experience beyond cold facts. Actors did not get any Oscar, but they did a fine job and gave us a fun time, specially to the ones that know the "language" of tourism.

Overall this is pleasant to watch and more often funny than not. There are laugh out loud moments every few minutes or so. Some of the jokes in between are a little strained and fall flat but generally it is consistent from beginning to end. A little dialog could have been tightened and some scenes were a bit contrived like the way the leads started to become attracted to each other.The lead actress Nia is pleasant - she isn't corny as could be the case given some silly lines. Her romantic lead Alexis is just a bit on the plain side for a romantic comedy.Scenery is great.The supporting cast eg Dreyfus is good but a bit under utilised they don't have too many good lines after a while.