Oh man, so get this. This time I have to fly to Greece to do a bunch of stuff, again for my parents. And (again) I fell unconscious from exhaustion and can’t remember a thing … you think I should see a doctor about this? Whatever, do you remember what happened in My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3?
Pop Quiz Hot Shot!
1) We, again, might as start here: who is the titular wedding between in this film?
2) Why are they going to Greece in the first place?
3) What is the deep dark secret that the daughter is harboring?
4) How do they figure out where the father’s friends are who moved away from the town long ago?
5) And what is the big concern of the very young mayor about the father’s hometown in the film? How does she solve this problem and become a very good mayor?
Bonus Question: We remaking it. We need a new person getting married for the third, so who gets married in the whole new third film?
Answers
1) Oh boy, this is actually a hard one. It is between their super secret half-nephew … is that the right relation. Let’s see. The guy is their half-brother. And the person person getting married is that guy’s son. So that would be their nephew … yeah, half-nephew. And he’s getting married to a Syrian refugee. I … I mean, I suppose that is a relation of some kind even if they didn’t know about him until a day ago.
2) They are going to Greece to bring the father’s journal (in reality maybe like a memoir in the end) to his friends he knew as a child before the war. There is also a secret storyline in which the brother wants to spread his father’s ashes near an old tree he used to dream under or some shit.
3) She basically failed out of NYU. Although it is pretty unclear, what it sounds like is she ended up on academic probation after doing very poorly in her first year. Honestly, the whole timeline seems off. This film must take place basically a year after that last (absurd), but she would actually probably already be suspended from NYU if she did poorly her first semester. But maybe she was fine her first semester and then bombed her second? That would make some sense at least because then yeah, she would probably manage to sneak through on just academic probation at that point.
4) Uh … let’s see. The husband is wandering around like a goober because he doesn’t give a shit basically and ends up on the beach where he meets an old monk. He like hangs out with the guy a bit and in the end the monk is just like “oh I know where those people are.” The end. That is literally it, there is no explanation as to why this person is the only person who knows where these people are.
5) Well there are only like three people who live in the town at this point. It is dying. But she ultimately solves it by moving in all of the nearby migrants who are hanging around. Et voila. The town is now thriving (presumably).
Bonus Answer: Obviously it always should have been the daughter. She’s graduated NYU and has been somewhat low contact for a while and everyone is confused. They think she is in New York, but when she suddenly resurfaces in Los Angeles and asks for her parents to visit, you know this is going to be a family affair. They all jet off to Hollywood amid speculation when they randomly see her in a bit role in a film they are watching on the plane … what?! That’s right, at NYU she got into acting and film study and now has been secretly in Los Angeles pursuing her dreams. The family shows up on set (what a disaster!) and Paris has to take them aside to tell them to, first of all, chill, and second of all that she’s engaged! He’s an actor … Tom Stephens, ever heard of him? He’s just the hot young upcoming star. Alright, here are the storylines: Tom is getting a bit jealous because Paris’ career is starting to take off and his is maybe stalling out a bit, in the end they both end up getting hired on in a Mr. and Mrs. Smith-esque action film which is a huge break for both of them and they realize they both can do this together and be better for it. Meanwhile, the Greek fam is struggling with the fact that Tom isn’t Greek! Well, that ends obviously: turns out they never really asked and Tom (and Paris) are a bit confused. If they just looked it up they would realize that Tom’s real name is Tom Stephanopoulos, he just goes by Stephens because his real name is far too long for Hollywood to handle. And finally, there is a who load of hilarious Father of the Bride stuff with Toula and her husband. In the end they have a truly epic Big Fat Greek Wedding and everyone is happy.
It is called My Big Fat Greek Hollywood Wedding and it concludes my remade trilogy.
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