Well, my original point was that the first two films made concessions to religion and ethnicity. Afterall, the Mafia is Italian and Italians tend to be Catholic. But, GFIII went overboard on both. Moving things to Sicily for such a long portion of the film seemed unnecessary. Anthony could have made his operatic debut in NY.

In GFI, Michael's sojourn in Sicily followed the novel of course, but was a fitting departure form the stateside portion of the movie. It contrasted the war in America with Michael's relatively peaceful sojourn in Sicily and laid the groundwork for the attempt on his life and a portion of Vito's speech to the Dons.

Yes, GFIII went overboard with religion and the Italianness of the film was a little much even for me.