My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 and Simplicity

The other day, my wife watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3. My wife loved it, and I thought that it was fun enough. It was the third in the series, so there was definitely diminishing returns. They still played off the Greek family and culture aspect of it all, which is still a strong suit of the Greek Wedding movies. Everything else was entertaining enough with relatively small stakes, making it an “easy” movie. It was definitely for an older audience looking for something fun and simple.

I also want to create something simple with The Mustard Prince series. I am not trying to reinvent the wheel but just write a fun, simple story focused on fun, memorable characters. Entertainment these days have seemingly lost the plot trying to get away from simple, effective storytelling in order to spread some sort of messaging. There is also a laziness to a lot of writing, opting to do away with character progression and making characters having already achieved greatness early.

I have to be careful not to fall into that trap though. There is struggle that characters should overcome that is not easy in order to become stronger.