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Kiss Me, Guido
Metascore
46 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 14
  3. Negative: 2 out of 14
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    75
    It's a bouncy, occasionally awkward diversion with sharply written characters and good actors.
  2. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    63
    A clunky script that reduces the characters to one-dimensional stereotypes.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    60
    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.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Elvis Mitchell
    60
    Manages to have playful comic ingenuity of its own.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    60
    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.
  6. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    58
    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.
  7. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    50
    A movie with a lot of funny one-liners, but no place to go with them.
  8. San Francisco Examiner
    Reviewed by: Barbara Shulgasser
    50
    Neither offensive nor inspired.
  9. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    50
    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.
  10. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Steve Davis
    50
    The film's biggest shortcoming is that its caricatured strokes aren't broad enough; it lacks the slam-bang energy of the comically grotesque.
  11. Empire
    Reviewed by: Jake Hamilton
    40
  12. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Lisa Alspector
    40
    If spelling out stereotypes were inherently funny the movie would be a hoot.
  13. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    30
    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.
  14. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    30
    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.
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