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Kiss Me, Guido

Kiss Me, Guido

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A must see! Nick Scotti fans!
Review: This is a must see flick if you are Straight, Gay, Bi, etc... It is a hilarious flick! I have seen it and wouldn't mind seeing it for the second time around. Great performance by Nick Scotti!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Funny movie!
Review: This movie is very funny, if you just take it for what it is. Meryl, the landlord, was the funniest of them all. I like a movie where everyone gets along in the end, even if its not true to life.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A very out-beat comedy.
Review: This movie makes me laugh, think and believe that real friendship doesn't know about steryotypes. Very hilarious, full of unpredictable and real funny sequences, it has though a deep message about the power of friendship, understanding, and the most important: acceptance.

Although there is a main character in this movie, all the actors performed brilliantly: the brother's "macholistic" attitude, the landlord (a real woman, with a deep desire for human relationship, the father, although he is only talking some parts at the end, he, with the mother and the grand mother are "needed" in this movie.

I personally enjoyed so much the comicity of some scenes mixed with realism (the part when the protagonist plays at the theatre, while the family is watching; and the dream scene was especially hillarious, mixing very beautiful excerpts of music.

FIVE STARS. and looking forward to another film.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: loved it!!
Review: this movie was extremely funny,i think all men and women disregarding their sexual prefrence will enjoy this movie and it has a killer soundtrack. nick scotti definitly makes this movie.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: breaking past stereotypes (still a dream?)
Review: This was a pretty good movie. The characters were stereotypical, but thankfully they did seem to manage to break past their stereotypical roles and at least learn to tolerate and have fun with "the other side." Now if only there was a movie that showed that not all gays fit the sterotypes we want them too. A gay guido? Not this time. Be who you are. Enjoy the movie.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Yuck
Review: This was SO bad, I couldn't sit through it all the way through in one screening. The protagonist is totally unbelievable, "Guido" so straight and uptight as to make this more of a heterosexist "Why Gays Can't Be Happy" than any kind of gay-positive story. And, it wasn't funny, amusing, or showing any gay-positive attributes. If I could award Negative points, I would.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Yuck
Review: This was SO bad, I couldn't sit through it all the way through in one screening. The protagonist is totally unbelievable, "Guido" so straight and uptight as to make this more of a heterosexist "Why Gays Can't Be Happy" than any kind of gay-positive story. And, it wasn't funny, amusing, or showing any gay-positive attributes. If I could award Negative points, I would.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: painful
Review: Unbelievably contrived (does anybody believe that a guy named Frankie from the Bronx is going to think that GWM stands for "guy with money?") and full of clinched characters, this movie is painful to watch. Don't bother.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Worth the effort
Review: While hardly the universal comedy its billed to be, Kiss me Guido has more than an average share of moments. While relying too heavily on Italian and Gay stereotypes, at least it views them sympathetically, and we are blissfully spared the artificial "conversion" of Frankie to the homosexual lifestyle. The characters are allowed to be true to themselves while finding common ground upon which their relationships can work. One of the few films I've seen recently that's worth seeing twice.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Gay for play
Review: Yes, Tony Vitale's debut feature is 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.

Like SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER's Tony Manero (the role model of "Guidos" everywhere), 24-year-old aspiring actor Frankie (Young & the Restless Alumn Nick Scotti), a Bronx-born Italian-American, wants nothing more than to move into Manhattan and -- he hopes -- the big time. He answers an "roommate wanted" ad, naively figuring that GWM stands for "Guy With Money," and winds up in the Greenwich Village apartment of "Gay White Male" and fellow actor Warren (Anthony Barrile).

Warren is due to appear in an upcoming play, but after he's injured, Frankie steps into the role of -- you guessed it -- a gay man. It will come as no surprise that Frankie overcomes his homophobia through his love of acting and burgeoning friendship with Warren, while Warren reevaluates his own snotty "Guido-phobia," learning that he and Frankie share more than a mutual love of trashy disco music.

While hardly incisive, the film gamely tries to play with popular stereotypes, and unlike the odious German "comedy" MAYBE... MAYBE NOT, Vitale carefully avoids the more offensive cliches inherent in a gay-straight roommate situation. Warren is a refreshingly stable character, rather than a pathetic victim of unrequited love; in fact, he's not terribly happy about having the handsome Frankie invading his turf. And while the somewhat dim-witted Frankie is the object of an awful lot of comic potshots, Scotti's appealing performance keeps him from ever seeming less than a nice guy.


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