So what made it such a popular flick?

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Well, Time Out thought it's because "the result feels a little over-egged at times and the love match lacks chemistry, but Ian's whistlestop induction into a different style of language, food, drink, dress and dancing allows a few good one-liners."

Decent Film Guides reckons audiences loved it because of the movies' "endearing eccentricities, such as Toula's father's improvisational Greek etymologies of words like "kimono" and his reliance on Windex for a range of external-use medicinal purposes, help humanize the characters."

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Vardalos is already writing the script for the sequel

"The actors...bring out an attractive, warmhearted simplicity in each character. Above all, they portray a close, loving family, the film's ultimate and lasting virtue," added Movie Metropolis.

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And the tainted sequel curse may be avoided in this case as Vardalos is returning, not only to star alongside Corbett, but to pen the script as well. The second instalment will follow the loud and rowdy Portokalos clang once again, a family secret will reportedly be revealed and a new wedding will take place, bigger and more manic than the first one.

Vardalos recently spoke of reprising her famous role to Variety. "Now that I'm experiencing motherhood, I'm ready to write the next chapter of my family story," she said. "Of course a few jaded folks in the press corps will claim I ran out of money or just want to kiss John Corbett again. One of these things is true." This is surely not to be missed!