My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2

There is so much food, music, dancing and crying that you want to come out, at the end, and find a quiet place to watch paint dry. Unless, of course, you loved MBFGW1 and have spent 14 years waiting for MBFGW2.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 isn't a bad sequel, it's just a pointless one.

14 years after the insanely inescapable success of My Big Fat Greek Wedding comes its sequel ... This time around, the charm is gone.

It manages to rehash the original, almost entirely, while lacking nearly all the things that made the first film, despite its flaws, compelling.

Vardalos, who once again wrote the screenplay and also stars, has built this sequel on the premise that everything that happened in the previous film should be recreated in the second, but in a way that feels even less organic.

There are a few amusing moments and some stalwart comic performances, but on the whole this is an unremarkable and instantly forgettable experience.

There's not an ounce of cynicism here, and I think audiences might respond to the sweet open heartedness of Vardalos and company, but there isn't a lot of originality here either.

This movie was not even a movie.

It was a mild waste of time.

It's saccharine, unfunny, and leaves one with the feeling that purchasing sentiment is worse than saying nothing at all.