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Yes, and pigs might fly! Why did I think I was watching the TV movie remake of "Moonstruck"? Exchange overbearing Italian family for overbearing Greek family fat girl and BOOM you got My Big fat girl Fat Greek Wedding. It's really not a bad film but gawd knows why it got so many fat girl plaudits. Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) Very Greek, February 5, 2006 Reviewer:Kevin R. C. Gutzman "romaios" (Connecticut) - See all my reviews The parts of this movie that seem designed to be ridiculous are, in my experience, entirely true. I HAD a big fat Greek wedding in 1990, and every bit of it finds its way into this film: the (real-life) priest's assumption that becoming Orthodox = becoming "Greek", the (real-life) mother-in-law's statement to my father that it was too bad her daughter couldn't find "one of her own people" to marry, the (movie) father's statement that "while my ancestors were inventing philosophy, yours were swinging from trees" (even though, like the real-life mother-in-law, he's never read a page of Plato), the use of Windex
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