This oddly titled remake of Spencer Tracy's final flick, GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, has Bernie Mac as the bullying patriarch of a family who learns one of his daughters is dating a white guy (Ashton Kutcher). Worse, he's a white guy out of work and who tends to lie. (Imagine if this had been the case in the original, which involved Spencer Tracy meeting his daughter's black boy friend. But never fear: the beau in that movie was played by Saint Sidney Poitier, who is a doctor, for heaven's sake, and can do no wrong.) In the remake, a clash of cultures predictably ensues, embroidered with large doses of slapstick. The daughter herself is played by someone named Zoe Saldana and is dull as dishwater, but then who in their right mind would want to date the klutzy Kutcher, who keeps falling down and stumbles over every sentence? Mac is pretty subdued, as befits his role as a loan officer of a small town bank. Clichés abound as the movie drags onto the inevitable lovable, huggable conclusion. But to believe this gal's many relatives would openly accept Kutcher as her fiancé places GUESS WHO in the realm of science fiction. It's watchable, but avoid the part where Mac and Kutcher tango together. Fast-forward that part or better yet, leave the room for two minutes. It's embarrassing and just not funny.
Review of Guess Who
