It doesn’t feel genuine at all, it feels contrived from start to finish.
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06/08/09
My Life in Ruins (2009)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:2
Rotten:23
Average Rating:3.8/10
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
Top CriticYou know precisely where it’s headed and how it will get there halfway into Act One.
06/08/09
Top CriticMy Life in Ruins will neither ruin nor change nor significantly impact your life.
06/05/09
Top CriticDefiantly square and focus-group engineered to appeal to those harboring a soft spot for "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," the Nia Vardalos vehicle My Life in Ruins doesn't do Greece or its star many favors.
06/05/09
Top CriticIf only there was something -- anything -- else about this broad, clunky comedy to keep its name from being an oh-so-obvious punchline.
06/05/09
Top CriticNotably thinner, less awkward and a lot less charming, Vardalos is back with My Life in Ruins, a desperate, crass and probably futile attempt at replicating the earlier movie's fluke success.
06/05/09
Top CriticVardalos is charming.
06/05/09
Top CriticHalf 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 Critic'Ruins' is indeed an apt descriptor for this picture.
06/05/09
Top CriticFans of fluff comedies filled with soft smiles and knowing glances will likely welcome the return of Nia Vardalos in My Life in Ruins.
06/05/09
Top CriticFor those craving a baklava-sweet snack, here's your rush of the familiar. It's the rest of us who must worry about a spike in our blood sugar.
06/05/09
Top CriticSome lame gay-baiting adds ugliness to the wretched proceedings.
06/05/09
Top CriticThe 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 CriticMy Life in Ruins plays out more like a thuddingly bad, been-there, seen-that sitcom. Even the sight of breathtaking ancient monuments don't keep it from crumbling.
06/05/09
Top CriticIn fashioning a comeback for Vardalos, writer Mike Reiss has cribbed much from her Greek Wedding playbook.
06/05/09
Top CriticThrough it all, Vardalos is a trouper, with a distinctive screen presence and delayed-reaction timing.
06/05/09
Top CriticThis paint-by-numbers romantic comedy is chock-a-block with jokey stereotypes -- Americans are obnoxious, Canadians polite, and the Greeks just dance -- yet lacking in any real drama.
06/05/09
Top CriticWith stale 1970s-style sitcom humor, My Life in Ruins has none of the homey authenticity of My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
06/05/09
Top CriticThe folks responsible for My Big Fat Greek Wedding have made My Life in Ruins, a second cute, shoddy-looking movie.
06/04/09
Top CriticRarely 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
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