Thursday, March 24, 2005

Guess Who

It's Meet the Black Parents when Zoe Saldana takes her fiancee Ashton Kutcher to her parents ' house for their 25th anniversary party in Guess Who, a comedy based on interracial relation s that doesn't get mean, and succeeds to give laughs, even with uncomfortable situations nobody would want to be part of.

Kutcher plays Simon Green, a successful young man who just proposed to Zaldana's Theresa, and they're going to tell her parents when they go to the party. That is until Simon learns that Theresa hasn't told her parents he's white, which causes for much laughter when they go to meet them as they are, just like her, black.
Bernie Mac plays Percy, Theresa's father, and he's not happy about the situation. Not entirely because he's white, but also because he's all about security and hard work so when he learns that Simon has quit his job (for unknown reasons) and he never told Theresa, he gets mad.
But it's all about laughs most of them time when Percy finds the kids having fun, or every time other members of the family meet Simon, and specially in a very funny scene at the dinner table involving black jokes that is very well done and doesn't offend anybody.

Though Dude, Where's my Car? was an awesome movie 5 years ago, and his Kelso in That 70's Show is comedy gold, Ashton Kutcher's latest tries were pretty horrible in My Boss's Daughter and Just Married, but he makes us forget those two here as he is great. Mac is really funny as always but can also play the serious dad very well.
Him and Kutcher have a really great chemistry and it works perfect in the movie.

With great comedic actors and great funny situations handled really well when using racial jokes, Guess Who offers a really fun story that works on every level, and it's one of the best comedies, if not the best, we've had this year so far.