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Kiss Me, Guido
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for sexuality and strong language
Starring
Nick Scotti,
Anthony Barrile,
Anthony DeSando,
Craig Chester,
Domenick Lombardozzi,
Molly Price,
and
Christopher Lawford
Kiss Me Guido puts lifestyles on a comic collision course. One hilarious mix-up follows another as straight-arrow Frankie (Scotti), a pizza maker from the Bronx, comes to terms with Greenwich Village gay culture -- and his new roomie, actor/choreographer Warren (Barrile), comes to terms with Frankie. (Paramount Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Tony Vitale
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Tony Vitale
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 9, 2001
Video: September 22, 1998
Theatrical: July 18, 1997
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| RUNNING TIME: |
86 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
It's a bouncy, occasionally awkward diversion with sharply written characters and good actors.
63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
A clunky script that reduces the characters to one-dimensional stereotypes.
60
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.
60
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.
60
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
Manages to have playful comic ingenuity of its own.
58
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.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
A movie with a lot of funny one-liners, but no place to go with them.
50
San Francisco Examiner
Barbara Shulgasser
Neither offensive nor inspired.
50
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.
50
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.
40
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
If spelling out stereotypes were inherently funny the movie would be a hoot.
30
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.
30
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.
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