Critic Reviews
| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
It's a bouncy, occasionally awkward diversion with sharply written characters and good actors.
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| 63 |
ReelViews
A clunky script that reduces the characters to one-dimensional stereotypes.
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| 60 |
Los Angeles Times
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.
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| 60 |
Variety
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.
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| 60 |
The New York Times
Manages to have playful comic ingenuity of its own.
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| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly
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.
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| 50 |
Chicago Sun-Times
A movie with a lot of funny one-liners, but no place to go with them.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
Neither offensive nor inspired.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
The film's biggest shortcoming is that its caricatured strokes aren't broad enough; it lacks the slam-bang energy of the comically grotesque.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
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.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
If spelling out stereotypes were inherently funny the movie would be a hoot.
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| 40 |
Empire
Jake Hamilton
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
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.
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| 30 |
Washington Post
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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