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List Price: $14.94 Our Price: $9.99 You Save: $4.95 Features • AC-3 • Color • Dolby • Dubbed • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 25 March, 2005 DVD Release : 02 August, 2005 |
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Guess Who description 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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| Whimsically, I borrowed a copy of "Guess Who" from the Public Library. OK, I confess - I chose it chiefly because I enjoy looking at Ashton Kutcher's face; a guilty pleasure. (Who says a man can't coast through his career on looks alone?) As for the movie itself, I didn't expect much and guess what? - I didn't get it, either. It's just your average generically bland, dopey movie. And though "Guess Who" is supposed to be something of an update of the 40 year old "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", I noticed more gender stereotypes than racial ones; i.e. the frivolous female fluff muffins 'bonding' over strawberry daiquiris. I imagined the (male) creators of this film expecting women to find these scenes 'empowering'; gag me with a spoon.
But "Guess Who" is probably no worse than dozens of movies that are released every month; it's just that discriminating viewers will try to bypass them. If you have an IQ in the three digits, you might want to set your sights on something higher, unless you too are slumming by succumbing to eye candy. |
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