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• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (139 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005JNRA
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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

From The New Yorker

Any similarity between this movie and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is strictly coincidental. Ashton Kutcher plays a successful stockbroker who quits his job the day before he and his fiancée (Zoë Salda–a) are scheduled to travel to the New Jersey suburbs to meet her parents (Bernie Mac and Judith Scott). The tired complications of the plot are knocked off without benefit of ingenuity, believability, insight-or laughs. If there's any emotional or intellectual juice left in the subjects of interracial marriage and liberal hypocrisy, it's not to be found here. This is a movie made in a boardroom, a merger of Bernie-Ashton demographics.-Ken Marks -Ken Marks
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent family entertainment!, February 15, 2006

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A. Chopra - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guess Who (DVD)

I haven't seen a movie like this for years. It is full of comedy and you will keep laughing if you have a good sense of humor with open mind. The reason that many people here have given negative points is because it deals with the subject which makes many people uncomfortable, but as I said that if you watch this movie with open mind, you will definitely love it. The story is about a black girl (Zoe Saldana) who is in love with a white boy (Ashton Kutcher) and wants to announce their engagement on her parent's 25th marriage anniversary. Her dad (Bernie Mac) won't approve the white guy, not because he is a racist, but also uncomfortable about his daughter's relation with him. The movie is all fun, can be watched with family and as said before will keep everyone laughing.

Bernie Mac's character as Percy Jones is awesome, and he the one character you will keep watching the movie for. Ashton Kutcher, is all right and improvement in his acting is evident. Other actors are ok. Overall, this movie should not be missed, and please...don't take the jokes in the movie seriously.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Bernie Mac should be a BIG star, May 19, 2006

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bensmomma "bensmomma" (Ann Arbor, Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guess Who (DVD)

I did NOT have high hopes for this, when it was marketed as an Ashton Kutcher comedy based on a switcheroo on the "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" premise. Girlfriend Theresa and Simon (Kutcher's part) return to her home for her parents' 25th wedding anniversary, but she has neglected to tell her parents he is white. It just wasn't clear to me that when an upscale black girl brings home a goofy white guy hilarity would automatically ensue.

The fellow who lifts this above its premise is Bernie Mac, playing Percy Jones, the father of girlfriend Theresa. The part is a parody of a parody - Dad makes Ashton sleep on the sofabed to keep him out of Daughter's bed, Dad gets into slapstick competition with Ashton because he doesn't think the dude is good enough for his daughter, etc. But Mac is not only a gifted verbal comic, he is a world-class physical comedian. At the same time he endows this silly part with a real dignity - you can really believe this is a guy who holds his family together, who loves his wife as much as he did 25 years ago.

I don't need to see another parody of a Spencer Tracy movie (I can't imagine anyone who would actually), but I'd love to see more of Bernie Mac.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Guess who?, June 2, 2006

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Lyuba - See all my reviews

This review is from: Guess Who (DVD)

I went to see this movie with my boyfriend on a Friday night, and it was good. I though it was a good date movie. It's funny, not long, but it's definitely predictable. Though there might have been some racist jokes or comments, it was pretty funny. It seemed like it could happen in a real life, and I think many face that problem.It's good to address those kind of problems in funny movies.