Guess Who
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Movie Reviews of Guess Who
Movie Review: Mediocrity All Around
Summary: 3 Stars
Guess Who is quite a disappointment when expecting a hilarious comedy.
In short, the acting is pretty good (but nothing great), while the humor, the dialogues and the plot are just average if not slightly below average.
Strongly resembling Meet the Parents, it plays on white-black race relations. Yawn... Boring...
Moreover, the characters are weak, bland and just plain uninteresting, not to mention that to call the ending "predictable" is the understatement of the year!
In a nutshell, it's probably not a movie you would want to add to your collection, but it will provide for an evening's entertainment, and that's about it.
No masterpiece here... 2 ? Stars
Movie Review: Colossal Boredom
Summary: 2 Stars
"Guess Who" is a film I watched in three halves. It's difficult to sit thru this film in one stretch. Much of the humor is infantile and not funny at all. The only funny scene in the film lasts for around ten seconds and features a taxi driver who's not even a part of the plot. This is by far Ashton Kutcher's worst film. I thought Butterfly Effect was simply amazing but with "Guess Who" he fails to make a faint impression. This is easily the most skip worthy film I have seen in a while. It lacks humor and falls flat on it's face as far as acting,direction and screenplay goes.
Watch this film if only you must see every Ashton Kutcher film out there for some reason transparent to me. Cheers.
Movie Review: Hilarious
Summary: 5 Stars
Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher star in this semi-remake of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". I haven't seen that movie, but this movie is funny as hell.
When I began watching it I expected it to be just a romantic comedy with little comedy that relied on charm to keep it going. Well, I was off. This movie is was fu**ing hilarious. Kutcher stars as Simon Green, whos black girlfriend Theresa (Zoe Saldana) takes him to meet her father Percy (Mac) and mother Marilyn while they celebrate their 25th wedding aniversary. Having checked out Simon's credit report, Percy is awaiting the meeting between himself and Simon until he discovers that Simon is white. Now, Percy begins doing everything he can to get Simon away from his daughter;
most often in hilarious ways. Mac and Kutcher are a great comedy team; they work well together and I hope they will appear side by side in future films. A-
Movie Review: Kutcher's Kutcher, but Bernie Mac makes this entertaining
Summary: 4 Stars
I hate to admit that I actually watched an Ashton Kutcher movie (but, in my defense, it did have the very funny Bernie Mac in it), much less that I actually enjoyed it. Not for Kutcher, of course, who makes Keanu Reeves look like a master thespian, but despite him. Bernie Mac pretty much carries the movie single-handedly; every scene without him is something of a chore to get through.
The premise is very simple. Percy Jones (Bernie Mac) is quite horrified when his daughter Theresa (Zoe Saldana) brings home her new boyfriend for her parents' twenty-fifth anniversary celebration. Percy had checked up on our boy Simon Green (Kutcher) and was quite encouraged by his credit report and the fact that he worked for a prestigious investment firm (at least, he did work for a prestigious investment firm - but he quit just before making the trip to meet his prospective in-laws, a fact that no one, including Theresa, knows about yet). Simon isn't what he was expecting at all, though - not by a long shot. It has a lot to do with the fact that Simon is white, but let's face it - every father's worst nightmare is the thought of his baby girl bringing Ashton Kutcher home with her. It's not even completely about race; the boy is just not right in the head, and Percy thinks he's hiding something (which he is). This father takes extraordinary steps to make sure Simon and his little girl don't get up to any hanky-panky there in his house - and who can blame him for that? As the days pass, things don't get any better, much comic hilarity ensues (capped off with a round of ethnic jokes told around the dinner table), and there's a big row that temporarily splits up both couples. Wouldn't it be funny if, just once, a movie didn't go for the pat, obvious ending? I think it would, but we'll have to wait a little longer to know for sure because Guess Who plays out just as you knew it would.
This is a comedy, and it doesn't try to be anything more than that. Without Bernie Mac, it would have flopped like a fish out of water, but Bernie Mac can make anything funny, even scenes with Ashton Kutcher. He really ought to get some kind of award for that - maybe a special Oscar for actually making an Ashton Kutcher film funny and enjoyable.
Movie Review: Not Bad
Summary: 3 Stars
Although I did not think Ashton and Zoe had great chemistry in this film I thought it was worth watching. I found it to be very funny and touching at times. There were things about the movie that seemed odd, but how many movies are perfect. I am not a big Ashton Kutcher fan becuase he drives me crazy with his big mouth, but I thought he did an okay job with this movie.
I would recommened anyone to see this movie with an open mind. Just know up front it's not great and it's not horrible but you should be entertained.