Guess Who (2005)

As far as Percy’s concerned, no man will ever be good enough for his baby girl and the long line of struggling-artist types Theresa has dated so far has only served to bolster his conviction. So that there are no unpleasant surprises this time around, Percy, a bank loan officer, runs a credit check on Simon. The young man, a successful young stockbroker, certainly looks good on paper, and for the first time, Percy is actually looking forward to meeting one of his daughter’s boyfriends.

However, the young man he has envisioned — a dazzling combination of Denzel Washington, Colin Powell and Tiger Woods — is not who arrives at his doorstep. Percy is aghast and more than a little indignant when his daughter presents her decidedly Caucasian boyfriend.

Once he is over his initial shock, Percy begins interrogating Simon about his family history, education,

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Guess Who is a palatable film. It offers a few solid laughs and will provoke some smiles, but there's too much of a tendency to go for obvious, largely unfunny humor when something more subtle would have satisfied. 

It's all perfectly passable, but it could have -- should have -- stung a lot more. 

--Rene Rodriguez

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If this film actually does break big bank, please – and yes, I’ll even say “pleaze” – do not make a sequel to it entitled GUESS WHO’S HAVING A BABY or some shit. Just let it go, man. 7/10

--'JoBlo' (JoBlo.com)

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Neither deeply offensive nor especially revealing, Guess Who is a mostly bland offering, less a comedy about race than another version of Meet the Parents, an attempt at breathing new life into an already-tested formula. C

--Robert Denerstein

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Fresh out of fresh ideas even before it begins, "Guess Who" blends premises that worked very well in earlier incarnations. 

--Ed Blank

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Sadly it's been botched. "Guess Who" serves up such flat dialogue and stilted situations that it's hard to sit through. 

--David Sterritt

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It can make jokes about the subject, but even those are often thunderingly unfunny, the writers flinging everything at the wall -- including ideas that contradict other ideas -- to see what sticks. It's a haphazard film that way, funny one moment and embarrassing the next, all of it only made tolerable by Kutcher and Mac. C+

--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)

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Thankfully, the radiant chemistry between Bernie Mac and Ashton Kutcher keeps the movie afloat, especially when the film does explore the humor of the biracial relationship. 

--Blake French (FilmCritic.com)

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The message is never lost and the film does a great job of showing how far we’ve come and how far we still need to go, while balancing the fact the audience is just looking to have a little fun. B

--Rebecca Murray

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Cast

Bernie Mac Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle Ashton Kutcher The Butterfly Effect, Dude, Where's My Car?, Just Married Zoe Saldana Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Terminal, Crossroads Jessica Cauffiel Legally Blonde, Road Trip, White Chicks Judith Scott Flightplan, The Santa Clause, Dunston Checks In Hal Williams The Rookie, Herbie Rides Again, Hardcore Kellee Stewart Cry Funny Happy [more]

“Guess Who” is a mirth-free mess that painfully kills 105 minutes of your life with tired jokes (even trying to wring grins out of gags based on metrosexuals and the appearance of “Ebony and Ivory” on the soundtrack) and wasted talent; once again, Mac has failed to find a vehicle worthy of the skills that he brings to television every week and Kutcher, who suggested the possibility of better things in “The Butterfly Effect,” is coasting here on material that is beneath even him.  --Peter Sobczynski (eFilmCritic.com) If I hadn’t so recently screened the far-superior-in-every-way In Good Company, I probably would have found fewer faults with Guess Who, an innocuous comedy that is better than it really has any right being, but still dragged down by the weight of a profusion of clichés and overused plot contrivances.  --Elaine Perrone (eFilmCritic.com) ...Guess Who can be quite arresting, enough to make this a worthwhile viewing for fans of situational family comedies and for the performances of the film's stars.  --Vince Leo (Qwipster.net)

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