Rating: PG-13
Starring: Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher, Zoe Saldana
Rating: 3 stars
Theresa (Saldana) is very excited because the time has come to introduce her boyfriend Simon (Kutcher) to her parents. They decide to spend the weekend with her folks, Percy (Mac) and Marilyn (Judith Scott). It's bound to be a very festive weekend: Theresa's parents are getting ready for a grand party to renew their wedding wows, and Theresa has an additional surprise for them - other than introducing her boyfriend: she and Simon are planning to announce their engagement. There's only one little snag: Theresa failed to inform her parents that her soon-to-be-fiancee is a white boy. You see, she's an African American from a successful and well-established family, whose traditional father is expecting to meet a well-bred and equally successful African American young man. What ensues is a series of very entertaining surprises, powered by shock and disbelief, and peppered by comedic situations. Percy is determined not to accept his future son-in-law and believes he can change his daughter's mind about Simon; but Simon is also determined to make his future father-in-law see beyond the whiteness of his skin, and see him for whom he really is. Like a mirror image of the 1967 classic "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" - featuring Spencer Tracy as the father, and Sidney Poitier as the fiancee - this comedy also touches on issues of race, and how to view our differences as a positive thing other than a negative one, as we strive to come together in the end. "Guess Who" does not have the same impact, or depth of the '67 classic, but offers a light comedy that is quite entertaining.