Review of My Life in Ruins (2009) by Thomas W — 12 Mar 2010
My Life in Ruins is a movie that is so bad it doesn't even deserve a review. Nia Vardalos is still trying to make a successful follow-up to My Big Fat Greek Wedding -- a movie I thought was horribly overrated and terribly unfunny.
What Vardalos has proven she can do with both of these movies is prove that she can make fun of other people while she, herself, towers above all in superiority of all-things. In Ruins, she plays a travel guide in Greece who pretty-much hates everyone (co-workers, her bus driver, her tourist clients).
To make her look better, everyone else in the movie is a walking joke or punchline except for the ONE character that was specifically written for audience love and sympathy (for the veteran actor she obviously wanted to cast in her terrible movie).
The character is so cliche and the character's story arch is predictabe beyond belief that I cannot believe the once-great Richard Dreyfuss would agree to make this film ... perhaps he wanted a free month in Greece.
The movie is awful; but as a Greek travelogue it is beautiful. Its locale pulled the movie's grade up to one full star. Paris Hilton can disappear (and EVERYONE seems to agree with this) -- but so can Nia Vardalos because she has no more laughs to tell (and that is IF one actually laughed in Wedding).
This review of My Life in Ruins (2009) was written by Thomas W on 12 Mar 2010.
My Life in Ruins has generally received mixed reviews.
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