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Guess Who [DVD] [2005]
enlarge	Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan Actors: Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Cauffiel, Chad Gabriel, Jonelle Kennedy Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Category: DVD List Price: ~~£15.99~~ Buy New: £1.68 as of 21/11/2009 08:53 GMT details You Save: £14.31 (89%) New (20) Used (23) Collectible (1) from £0.79 Seller: fastdvd2006 Rating: 9 reviews Sales Rank: 20597 Format: Anamorphic, PAL Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Region: 2 Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 101 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5039036021500 ASIN: B0009JOQ3E Theatrical Release Date: 2005 Release Date: September 12, 2005 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Taken on its own terms as a big-screen sitcom, iGuess Who/i 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 iGuess Who's Coming To Dinner/i, 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 iGuess Who/i--from the director of iBarbershop 2/i--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. i--Jeff Shannon/i

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 9 1 2 Next » Yea I liked it October 4, 2005 7 out of 8 found this review helpful I got this to see this for the first time over the weekend after getting it on rental from Amazon and I really liked it. pThe story of an interracial romance set in the modern day with such likeable characters. Really brighten my day I agree with some of the other reviewers that its not laugh out loud funny and not in the same league as Meet the Parents (thank goodness) but it is in my mind an enjoyable romcom. pBernie Mac does a star turn of as a man faced with his oldest daughter bringing home her latest beau who happens to be white and who it becomes more and more obvious is not quite telling the truth.pI loved not only the romance but also the burgeoning relationship between Percy and Simon its going to take sometime before he is completely comfortable with his white son in law but he is trying.pIn my mind this is a good comedy which very enjoyable and I will be getting the dvd. take this from a guy who has seen the movie 10+ times February 22, 2006 P. S. J. Richards 5 out of 6 found this review helpful ok, so this will never win an award but i love it. its really funny and bernie mac makes the film. kutcher plays his part well and it shows just how interatial marriage works.brthe main plot for this movie is theresa (zoe saldana) brings her fiance simon green ( kutcher) to her parents house for there anniverarie, she forgets to mention 1 little detail...no, not about the wedding.... the fact that hes white. percy jones (bernie mac)(who is always called by his full name) does everything he can to make sim feel "apart" of the family. percy even pulls simon#x27;s credit rating which seems to look good, but he finds out that he quit his job. later in the film percy finally realises why he did this, the fact that someone at work didnt want him to marry the #x27;black#x27; girl pushed him over the edge. ill leavethe end for you to figure out. you can probably guess what is going to happen.bri have read many reviews saying that kutcher is rubbish and that he can never replace Sidney Poitier in the original role ( guess who#x27;s coming to dinner.)i agree kind of, but there is not many people who could of played that role as good as he did, but i agree with others, Bernie mac does make the film what it is....a masterpiece.brall i can say is please watch it, you wont be sorry. Great!! July 28, 2007 Thoughtless (England, Oxfordshire) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful This film is funny, clever and un-complicated which makes it highly watchable. Bernie Mac is hilarious in that it is clear he doesn't like Simon (Kutcher) atall, dissagreeing with everything he says. Everybody in the film plays a great part and I love the ending especially. It is one of those films you can actually call a feel good film and watch again and again. The slapstick is hilarious as is the dinnertime jokes and the Karting race between Percy (Mac) and Simon so I highly recommend this to anyone who wants to see a light, humourous, feel good film. Simple Good entertainment September 19, 2005 9 out of 9 found this review helpful It's not the funniest movie I watched this year, but I quite enjoyed it. It's more like "Meet the Parents" with the added interracial aspect than "Guess who's coming to Dinner". Aside from some minor racial misconceptions and some racist jokes, the movie is more about love and really quite touching in places. Although occasionally funny, not all jokes work and some just remind too much of "Meet the Parents". The star of the movie is Bernie Mac, who's perfect as the mistrusting and protective father, but the other actors are convincing too. The young couple seems to be very much in love, as do the parents. brIt's a movie that's entertaining and refreshing to watch. I wouldn't buy it and it's not unmissable, but it's worth watching. I'm still waiting to finally see a Hollywood movie where an interracial relationship is seen as normal, but this movie makes me think we're getting close... Kutcher's Kutcher, but Bernie Mac makes this entertaining October 24, 2005 Daniel Jolley (Shelby, North Carolina USA) 11 out of 13 found this review helpful 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.pThe 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.pThis 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. Showing reviews 1-5 of 9 1 2 Next »

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