Show Big fat fun put “My Big Fat Wedding” is big fat Simply fun Get this — it’s dean wholesome family enjoyment too There are no instances of potty humor blatant sexual references that bdong in Penthouse Fonun leads or naked and half naked bodies zipping around the screen like “Bring a Friend” day at the nude beach Instead the creators of “My Big F Cheek Wedding have 1 through reality to offer filmgoers the most I ous subject on the face of the planet — die family The narrator of the film — Toula PMokalos (Nia Vddalos) — is a disheveled unfulfilled 30 year-ol-d waitress at her famrestaurant die aptly ily’s named “Dancing Zorba’s” Her brother is a handsome highly-favorworker at the restaurant with ambitions of being an artist and her sister the cute popular girl during her teenage years is married and has a large family Tbula being the youngest is protected and watched over by her mother and father and is in danger at least in her parent’s minds of dying an old maid It also doesn’t help matters dial Toula dresses like she woo a shopping spree at “Sweatpants R Us” ’ Ibsay that she is an unkempt beast at die first of die movie is to swathe a nice glossy paint-jo- b over the subject But on die other hand if Julia Roberts was playing Tbula thefilm would reek of manure Tbula’s old maid destiny takes a m after she meets Ian Miller (John Corbett) while he dines at Dancing Zarba’s There isn’t much interaction ed U-iu- ' one-wom- an The type of Hm Y you want to pay hi price for and aaa again and again k - 71 flat MRDBDS M Sc10-7:1- 0 r SgfgE 0705095 iVkMmaoFMi 1 Hi 1 m 0 f W JNk " Wj t to te y iV '! f nnMBneMEceeittflsattHlB (f (J LI Oa eBtidtomncaaotta without summer but it is certainly a pleasant break from the brain-ie- ss Autumn fare released thus far Not only that but 8S I said before “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” is a movie the entire family can watch without blushing or feeling awkward Lastly let me take out my soapbox and say that while I don’t claim to he an entertain- ment business analyst it seems to me the Wbstates theater chain in Cache Valley could benefit — financially and culturally — by running more independent films in their lower-en- d theaters instead of worthless mind numbing garbage art-hou-se HiimiHii SPIDERMAN like “Master of Disguise” and “Pluto Nash” I won’t claim to know how this ought to be accomplished but I will say a healthy balance of studio and independent films would be enjoyed by many theatergoers On die other hand one can't place sole blame on the Westates They obviously book dorky movies such as the ones listed above in response to a market where people actually use hardcamed money — pardon me waste d money — to have a virtual lobotomy Tire moral of my tirade? 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