Theron Gabel

We are again with our big fat greek family sometime after the the loss of the patriarch of the family is gone, pappou. Honoring him, the family fulfills pappou 's wish to reunite with his cherished childhood friends in a village reunion, In the horio. The movie continues the close,loving, and yes loud life of a extended family with their conflicts and quirky humorous resolutions greek style. The story has some added depth with the feeling of loss of Portokalos' patriarch match with the abandoned state of the village. The Portokalos family reunion turns out to be scheme cooked up by the mayor, another cousin of the Portokalos family to restore the village metaphorically focused on the restoration of village fountain flowing with water again. It just happens the only touchstone that Toula has to find her father's old childhood friends is a picture of her father with Gus' friends playing at the village fountain. Toula turns up nothing in the village but with help with Toula's cousins Gus' old friends are found elsewhere in Greece. In the end the village is renewed with Portokalos family helping restored the fountain. Gus old family friends return to the village, and, yes with their own extended families coming to the village in a climax of another wedding, yes another family wedding. The Portokalos family only gets bigger and louder.