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30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe surprise -- and intermittent delight -- of Connie and Carla is the way that it taps into the everybody-is-a-star passion of the new sing-along culture.
- 63Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneVardalos and Collette have mighty pipes, but it's Collette who moves with the confidence and flair of a musical theater veteran. Watching this film, I found myself caring less and less about the fairly predictable and safe story and waiting impatiently for the next number.
- 63Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyPhiladelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyThe chief appeal of this affectionate story is its embrace of those who are not thinner, richer and more glamorous than the moviegoers.
- 50Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'SullivanBroad and cheesy, yet it is not utterly without a kind of junk-food appeal.
- 40The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasSeems as much an imposter in the drag-queen world as its heroines; it fronts the sort of safely asexual gay characters found on network TV.
- 40VarietyDavid RooneyVarietyDavid RooneyIt takes chutzpah to borrow from comedy maestros Billy Wilder and Blake Edwards, and Nia Vardalos would seem an unlikely candidate to get away with it unpunished.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttVeteran TV director Michael Lembeck slides the movie into a sitcom mode that only further deadens the thin material. While Vardalos and Collette shine in the musical numbers, why didn't he bother to give the musical sequences a bit of pizzazz?
- 38Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanCharlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanWhere "Wedding" introduced us to a Greek family most of us had never seen before, "Connie" plays out like a clumsy episode of "Laverne and Shirley:" familiar, phony and forgettable.
- 20Dallas ObserverBill GalloDallas ObserverBill GalloConnie and Carla doesn't just do violence to the memory of Wilder's brilliant sex farce (Some Like It Hot); it's so clumsy, it might give cross-dressing itself a bad name.
- 10Village VoiceVillage VoiceOne suspects Vardalos's movies aren't written as much as up-chucked, the result of all-night binges on SnackWells and Oxygen network reruns.