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Taken on its own terms as a big-screen sitcom, Guess Who offers plenty of humor with just enough social commentary to make its point without being preachy. Of course, we've come along way since interracial romance was such a hot-button issue in Stanley Kramer's earnest 1967 drama Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, and nobody's going to mistake Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac (in this updated semi-remake) with the original film's Sidney Poitier and Spencer Tracy. And that's fine, because Guess Who--from the director of Barbershop 2--doesn't pretend to be anything more than a slick, entertaining vehicle for domestic farce with the racial roles reversed. Kutcher's romance with an African-American beauty (Zoë Sandaña) causes sparks to fly when he's introduced to her father (Bernie Mac). What ensues is basically an interracial buddy comedy that's as uninspired as it is easy to watch, and there's a dinner-table scene that's refreshingly provocative in this movie's otherwise tamely cautious context. We can all be thankful that humanity has matured a little since the racial tensions of the late '60s, but Hollywood's progress (and Kutcher's career) remains subject to debate. --Jeff Shannon
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
It's not the funniest movie I watched this year, but I quite enjoyed it. It's more like "Meet the Parents" with the added interracial aspect than "Guess who's coming to Dinner". Aside from some minor racial misconceptions and some racist jokes, the movie is more about love and really quite touching in places. Although occasionally funny, not all jokes work and some just remind too much of "Meet the Parents". The star of the movie is Bernie Mac, who's perfect as the mistrusting and protective father, but the other actors are convincing too. The young couple seems to be very much in love, as do the parents.
It's a movie that's entertaining and refreshing to watch. I wouldn't buy it and it's not unmissable, but it's worth watching. I'm still waiting to finally see a Hollywood movie where an interracial relationship is seen as normal, but this movie makes me think we're getting close...
It's a movie that's entertaining and refreshing to watch. I wouldn't buy it and it's not unmissable, but it's worth watching. I'm still waiting to finally see a Hollywood movie where an interracial relationship is seen as normal, but this movie makes me think we're getting close...
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I got this to see this for the first time over the weekend after getting it on rental from Amazon and I really liked it.
The story of an interracial romance set in the modern day with such likeable characters. Really brighten my day I agree with some of the other reviewers that its not laugh out loud funny and not in the same league as Meet the Parents (thank goodness) but it is in my mind an enjoyable romcom.
Bernie Mac does a star turn of as a man faced with his oldest daughter bringing home her latest beau who happens to be white and who it becomes more and more obvious is not quite telling the truth.
I loved not only the romance but also the burgeoning relationship between Percy and Simon its going to take sometime before he is completely comfortable with his white son in law but he is trying.
In my mind this is a good comedy which very enjoyable and I will be getting the dvd.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I love this film, it does not take itself seriously and is a really good fun way to spend 97 minutes.
Ashton Kutcher and the late Bernie Mac (who sadly passed away earlier today) work superbly together, bouncing off of one another constantly.
This is very much so a film about prejudices and how people can with a little time and patience work things out and get over their hang ups whilst providing us all with lots of laughs on the way.
Ashton Kutcher and the late Bernie Mac (who sadly passed away earlier today) work superbly together, bouncing off of one another constantly.
This is very much so a film about prejudices and how people can with a little time and patience work things out and get over their hang ups whilst providing us all with lots of laughs on the way.
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