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63A pleasant if unremarkable romantic comedy that plays out like a sitcom with great scenery.
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63Summery and scenic, Ruins is this season's "Mamma Mia!," a diversion that dispenses the wisdom: Let go, let live, and let love. Not bad advice, and not a bad movie, exactly.
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58The film is so brazen about its pandering, crumple-hearted silliness that it had me rooting for Vardalos to land her big fat Greek stud-muffin.
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Ruins is sometimes as sunny as its locations but as familiar and predictable as a Greek diner.
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50My Life in Ruins will neither ruin nor change nor significantly impact your life.
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50A benign, mushy gruel that tries desperately to maintain the sticky sweet consistency of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" but ultimately ends up coasting on the "kefi" of that previous success.
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50The problem with the new movie is the same as with the previous one. Vardalos has this idea that she's a marm. And while it's true that she personifies her movies, I don't quite buy her librarian mode.
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50Words cannot express how weary I am of watching lifeless, hollow movies like My Life in Ruins - generic romantic comedies that have no clue when it comes to either "romance" or "comedy."
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This 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, only occasionally mustering enough charm or humour to rise above a predictable formula.
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Doesn't skimp on the life lessons or instant transformations. But the movie primarily exists to give amiable Everywoman Vardalos the chance to regain her kefi.
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50Not likely to spur much tourism to Greece. The sights, though impressive, are not photographed interestingly, and the citizens of the host country are less than welcoming.
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42Vardalos has brought back the tourist comedy and delivered the dumbed-down "If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium" no one wanted.
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42As a laughing-through-tears jokester tourist, Richard Dreyfuss provides the only moments of real acting, as opposed to overacting, mugging, and scenery chomping.
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40Director Donald Petrie doesn't have much to brag about here, but at least he gives us some nice scenery to look at.
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40Feels like warmed-over souvlaki.
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38Rarely 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.
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38Cloying and dated movie.
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38Sheila Bernette, as an aged pickpocket, is less a stereotype than an escapee from some provincial British comedy of the early 1950s. But she steals necklaces and knickknacks with such finesse and gusto that she also steals the movie.
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38For movie-goers who like a little cleverness with their comedy, however, one word: N-opa.
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A strangely self-loathing affair that paints Vardalos's tour group as a uniformly ill-mannered, culturally illiterate bunch, while rendering Greece itself as a badly plumbed third-world hellhole run by lazy, Zorba-dancing louts.
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Fittingly, My Life in Ruins goes downhill after its title.
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25Just to give you a taste of the movie's sophisticated idea of wit, it also makes fun of gay men.
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A cliché movie about love, orneriness and several maddening tourists.
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11All ends happily for everyone in the movie, but for those in the audience, the experience is so hackneyed that they'll come out feeling like they're wearing shirts that say, "I went to the Acropolis, but all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
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Mike Reiss's witless, maudlin screenplay is like rancid leachate trickling from a Dumpster full of rotting sitcom scripts, Mary Kay sales manuals, and romance novels.
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MichaelC1Quite frankly the worst movie I've seen in a long, time... like watching a bad 70s movie.
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JohnD0This was the worst movie i've ever seen. i feel bad for richard dreyfuss being a part of it.