Guess Who (2005)

The hot weather must be frying my brain!  How else to explain the fact that this movie was in no way as dire as I expected; it even had some watchable and mildly amusing bits, mixed in amongst the no-nos.  Apart from the nod in the title, this thankfully was not a remake of the Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn starrer "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" which is just as well since that film has one of the most moving expressions of love (Spencer looking at Hepburn) ever brought to the screen.  What we have here is a reversal of the older film's premise: black family faces the "problem" of their daughter bringing home a white beau, but it is largely played for laughs.  Ashton Kutcher was not quite as stupid as in his usual screen persona ("Butterfly Effect" apart) and Bernie Mac, as the father of the family, is something of an improvement on Cedric the (so-called) Entertainer, but certainly no Tracy.  Whether I would have been as tolerant on a cold wintry day remains to be seen.