Kiss Me, Guido
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: July 18, 1997 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
10
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
It's a bouncy, occasionally awkward diversion with sharply written characters and good actors. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
A clunky script that reduces the characters to one-dimensional stereotypes. Read full review
60
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
Manages to have playful comic ingenuity of its own. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
If Tony Vitale's Kiss Me, Guido isn't quite the laff riot its trailer suggests, it nonetheless abounds in good-hearted humor, adding up to a perfectly pleasant summer diversion. Read full review
60
VarietyDennis Harvey
A bright, snappy culture-clash farce in the mode of "Desperately Seeking Susan" and its ilk, Kiss Me, Guido plays gay and Italian-American stereotypes against one another to good-natured, crowd-pleasing results. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyTy Burr
If writer-director Tony Vitale ladles on the cliches with extra sauce, Guido still has a hey-Ma-I'm-makin'-a-movie enthusiasm that's more infectious than it has a right to be. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A movie with a lot of funny one-liners, but no place to go with them. Read full review
50
San Francisco ExaminerBarbara Shulgasser
Neither offensive nor inspired. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
Clumsy and amateurish. But it's also occasionally quite charming, and ultimately more commendable for what it ISN'T than worthy of censure for being nothing more than an inconsequential comedy. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleSteve Davis
The film's biggest shortcoming is that its caricatured strokes aren't broad enough; it lacks the slam-bang energy of the comically grotesque. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderLisa Alspector
If spelling out stereotypes were inherently funny the movie would be a hoot. Read full review
40
EmpireJake Hamilton
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30
L.A. WeeklyErnest Hardy
That crack in Vitale's storytelling foundation would be forgivable if the writing, acting and character epiphanies . . . well, existed. As it is, not even Scotti's formidable lips can blow life into this stillborn flick. Read full review
30
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
An unfunny comedy by Tony Vitale that is enacted not by fleshed-out characters but by hackneyed, two-dimensional stereotypes. There’re so many sexual and ethnic caricatures, it’s hard to know which is most offensive. Read full review
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