Kiss Me, Guido

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

It's a bouncy, occasionally awkward diversion with sharply written characters and good actors.

ReelViews James Berardinelli

A clunky script that reduces the characters to one-dimensional stereotypes.

Los Angeles Times Kevin 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.

Variety Dennis 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.

The New York Times Elvis Mitchell

Manages to have playful comic ingenuity of its own.

Entertainment Weekly Ty 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.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

A movie with a lot of funny one-liners, but no place to go with them.

San Francisco Examiner Barbara Shulgasser

Neither offensive nor inspired.

Austin Chronicle Steve 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.

TV Guide Ken 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.

Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector

If spelling out stereotypes were inherently funny the movie would be a hoot.

Empire Jake Hamilton

LA Weekly Ernest 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.

Washington Post Michael 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.