Guess Who 2/5
Some folks are comparing this to Meet The Parents, the smash hit with Ben Stiller and Robert DeNiro. I would compare it to Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, the 1967 Sidney Poitier/ Spencer Tracy/ Katherine Hepburn film in while the daughter brings home a black guy. It's essentially a remake, with a twist.
Theresa brings home her white boyfriend to attend her parent's wedding ceremony. Bernie Mac, the father, is stunned and upset that the Simon (Ashton Kutcher) turns out to be white, yadda yadda yadda.
There is a lack of punch in this film, and too many goofy moments. There is some intensity in the scene where Bernie Mac's character dares Simon to tell him a racsist joke, and then another and so on, until he tells one too many. It's moments like that that are sorely lacking in this film.
You wonder if they just spent more time sharpening up the script, they might have had something. Instead, it's a dud. It's too long, Bernie Mac is only mildly funny and it's hopelessly predictable. There is too much unnecessary dialogue and too much lowest common denominator humour to give this picture anything other than an artificial heart.
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