Review: Guess Who

Director : Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Main Cast : Ashton Kushter, Bernie Mac, Zoe Saldana

Guess Who is supposed to be remake of a 1960s film, though watching it, you would’ve thought that it’s actually a remake of the more recent Meet The Parents and My Big Fat Greek Wedding, amongst others. It’s the all-too-familiar tale of meeting the other half’s family for the very first time, usually went said family come from a very different background with different customs.



It stars Ashton “Kelso-Dude-Where’s-My-Car-Demi-Moore’s-Toyboy” Kutcher as a hotshot stock trader (yeah rite!), spending the weekend with his black fiancé’s parents for the very first time. Cue the white-man-meets-black-family jokes then. And boy, do they come thick and fast! The best scene to me is the dinner with Grandpa. Simply hilarious! Strangely though, only my date and I were laughing in the cinema.

Guess Who is an enjoyable enough film, certainly better than what I expected anyway. However I think that Meet The Parents is still way better. After all, Bernie Mac is no match for Bobby De Niro in full comedy mode. Same goes for Kutcher in comparison with Ben Stiller. However, saying that, a smartly dressed Kutcher, with a good haircut for once, does show that he can be taken seriously. Well, sort of, anyway, as half the time the Kelso does shine through, so to speak.