Rolling Stone by Peter Travers

Like Vardalos and Corbett, who play their roles with vibrant charm, the film, directed by Joel Zwick, is heartfelt and hilarious in ways you can't fake. It's a keeper.

New Times (L.A.) by Gregory Weinkauf

It's light fantasy, but lovely and astute.

Washington Post by Desson Thomson

It's not art, this movie. But it's much more amusing than you'd expect.

Slate by David Edelstein

There is a long and honorable tradition of broad intermarriage comedies (from the Romans to Abie's Irish Rose to La Cage aux Folles), and this one comes at least shoulder-high to the best. It has been directed by Joel Zwick in a happy, bustling style and acted with madcap ethnic relish.

Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov

Not only the best date movie of the year, it's also a -- dare I say it twice -- delightfully charming -- and totally American, I might add -- slice of comedic bliss.

San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle

It's a buoyant comedy with more warmth and generosity of spirit than anything else in theaters right now.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Rick Groen

With Corbett's laidback persona nicely countering Vardalos's authorial performance, the picture radiates a pure affability that's awfully attractive. My Big Fat Greek Wedding is a very slim movie that succeeds on its own modest terms without pretense or apology.

New York Daily News by Jami Bernard

Vardalos is a breath of fresh air. After all the little nipped and tucked bunnies we've been seeing onscreen for so long, we forget what real women look like.

Baltimore Sun by Chris Kaltenbach

The results are sometimes too frenetic, the laughs too obvious and predictable. But director Joel Zwick paces things well, and leavens the lunacy with enough seriousness (including a wonderfully poignant exchange between Toula and her brother) to keep the film grounded in the real.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

Five minutes into the film, I relaxed, knowing it was set in the real world, and not in the Hollywood alternative universe where Julia Roberts can't get a date.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Funny without out ever making fun, Vardalos mixes elements of ethnic stand-up, Cinderella romance and Bridget Loves Bernie-style situation comedy, all grounded in something very real.

Charlotte Observer by Lawrence Toppman

Vardalos is of Greek ancestry, which makes stereotyping permissible: She can tease Greeks, just as Italians can safely mock Italians or Jews can poke fun at Jews. But isn't it demeaning to reduce your heritage to clich?s?

The New York Times by Dave Kehr

An amiable, offhanded comedy about ethnic identity and last-chance romance.

Portland Oregonian by Shawn Levy

Watching it is like filling up on baklava: Later you may feel really guilty, but you don't exactly complain while it's going on.

Entertainment Weekly by Owen Gleiberman

The wedding, which turns the very concept of ''Greek'' into the sort of hideous, pandering clichés that look rejected from bad Jewish and Italian sitcoms.