Its cast is appealing, its script is often clever and imaginative, and it leaves us in much the same place as the Kramer classic: hopeful that race will someday cease to be a major issue in American life.
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03/24/05
Guess Who (2005)
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Reviews Counted:146
Fresh:63
Rotten:83
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: Despite the chemistry of its stars, Guess Who, a loose remake of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, lacks the political relevance of the original.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: This new take on the 1967 drama GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER puts a comedic spin on interracial dating. Bernie Mac (THE BERNIE MAC SHOW) costars as Percy Jones, a wealthy black banker who has an... [More]
Starring: Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Saldana, Judith Scott
Director: Kevin Rodney
Reviews for Guess Who
It says something about the timidity of the corporate-dominated entertainment industry that a contemporary film lacks the audacity of a 30-year-old sitcom.
03/24/05
Top CriticCan a film feature Ashton Kutcher parading around in women’s lingerie and a teary-eyed Zoe Saldana recalling her interracial dating struggles and still be taken seriously?
03/24/05
[Guess Who uses the personal chemistry between Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher...to create an amusing little film that has the feel of an extended TV sitcom.
03/24/05
Director Kevin Rodney Sullivan over-orchestrates each verbal and visual gag, and such heavy-handed helming robs Guess Who of any element of surprise.
03/24/05
It's never a good sign in a comedy when the characters laugh harder than the audience at their own jokes.
03/24/05
This loose, pointless remake of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner at least suggests that American racial attitudes have relaxed since 1967.
03/24/05
Top CriticWhat's not to like about a movie that concludes that although race can divide people, love can unite them?
03/24/05
A bland, awkward, occasionally amusing comedy
03/24/05
Serves up such flat dialogue and stilted situations that it's hard to sit through.
03/24/05
Twenty minutes in, we know where the movie is going and, as a result, it loses momentum in the final half-hour.
03/24/05
When so few comedies these days are actually funny, Guess Who is an entertaining and diverting way to spend 105 minutes for audiences starved for laughs.
03/24/05
No one does choleric better than Bernie Mac and it is always fun to see him get steamed.
03/24/05
One long race joke, the most overextended and least risible of the year.
03/24/05
Mix in a pair of inspired performances by Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher, and you've got a certified crowd-tickler with a lot more substance than the last Focker family gathering.
03/24/05
Top CriticIt's been a long time since the words 'Ashton Kutcher' and 'hilarious' have appeared in the same sentence, but they'll have to get reacquainted. Kutcher and costar Bernie Mac make a terrific comic team.
03/24/05
Sad though it is to say, it's not often that a romantic comedy comes along that succeeds in actually being both romantic and comedic. When those things happen, it's easy to forgive minor flaws.
03/24/05
I'm not opposed to drawing from the well of movies past. But to remake one with such a dated and specific point of view, one that relies on the interracial relationship as hot button, is both lazy and uncomfortably nostalgic.
03/24/05
Guess Who isn't very smart and it isn't very funny. In fact, it isn't much of anything.
03/24/05
No classic, but Mac and Kutcher prove a surprisingly winning team, and considering today's comedies, you could do a lot worse.
03/24/05
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