The first one was

I watched it just last night and had pretty much the same reaction. It seemed that much of the humor was forced, and much of it forced to tie in with the first one. An entertaining diversion because I like the actors, but not too much there. The focus on the old people trying to rectify their "non-marriage" over 50 years earlier is only mildly interesting. And the focus on the daughter deciding on a college seemed almost like an afterthought.

Most of the focus seemed to be the large, loud extended family that always had to get involved in the business of everyone and while some of that is entertaining it often is not.

Still I am glad that I took the time to see it. John Corbett and I (as a viewer) go back to his days as "Chris in the Morning" on the old "Northern Exposure" TV series, one of my all-time favorites. And Lainie Kazan and I go back to the late 1960s when I saw her perform live when I was in college. She was one of the best singers in her prime and I have a CD of her music.

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Yes, the first one sucked most of the good juice out of that orange. Not that much left for a second.

To get more humor, they leaned hard into the Greekness, showing syndromes that to most people are unknown, but probably very familiar to Greek-Americans. As a consequence, Greek-Americans seem to like this movie better than the first one whereas everyone else kind of doesn't get the humor.

Who knows how they ever managed to make a third.