Embarrassingly bad. Will kill Greece tourism. A torturous bore.
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06/02/09
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.
Theatrical Release:Jun 5, 2009 Wide
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
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Reviews for My Life in Ruins
Vardalos is charming.
06/05/09
Top CriticThink of Shirley Valentine and take away charm, wit, realism and Pauline Collins.
10/04/09
Pleasant but overly predictable travel comedy OK for teens.
06/11/09
The simple charms of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the 2002 small movie that thrust Vardalos into the limelight, are nowhere to be found in this formulaic, weak chuckler.
06/05/09
Top CriticThe bland cinematography fits with the unimaginative script and the drab direction of Petrie.
06/04/09
Nia Vardalos is as charming and watchable as ever but this is cliche ridden fluff.
10/04/09
The shaving of a beard changes a bus driver from Sasquatch to Fabio in this sitcom-style romantic wish-fulfillment fantasy for women.
06/08/09
'Ruins' is indeed an apt descriptor for this picture.
06/05/09
Top CriticGreek Wedding wasn't high art, or even high comedy, but it had a semblance of charm ... Ruins is just a wreck.
06/04/09
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
Top CriticIt's too bad My Life in Ruins fails so miserably at the macro level, because there are some good moments at the micro level.
06/05/09
The iconic ruins of Greece are photographed in a way that will likely inspire a lot of people to get on a plane; Vardalos looks luminous in every shot and manages to stay graceful while dealing with material that's beneath her.
06/05/09
It's merely one big fat Greek disaster.
06/05/09
Hollywood doesn’t know what to do with difference, any more than it does with ruins. It’s about time Vardalos, or someone, gave the suits a guided tour.
10/04/09
While there are some witty observations along the way, this tourism rom-com is so resolutely unromantic and unfunny that it feels like a package holiday during which you have to share a hotel room with the group clown.
09/25/09
This mess - henceforth to be known as My Big Fat Greek Tragedy - is the most embarrassing thing to come out of the Eastern Med since Prince Philip.
10/04/09
Here's another sexed-up TV movie that has hit the big screen, mostly because of the name recognition of its two major stars.
06/16/09
Nia Vardalos is a charmer but this movie with Greece as the backdrop is no 'Greek Wedding'
06/09/09
The film has the feel of a vaudeville show, with a series of stock characters entering and exiting, hamming for the camera as they go.
05/27/09
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