Sight Unseen: March 25, 2005

Continuing the Friday series of reviews of movies I haven't seen.

Guess Who
Bernie. Ashton. The Fox network's creaming itself at the pairing of their sitcom stars in a feature film. This reworking of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner turns the casting tables (white boy, black girl) to reflect the changes in race relations in our society. Reprising his role from just about everything he's ever starred in, Bernie Mac's the grumpy, no-nonsense, overbearing, hard-ass father figure with a sense of humor. Will he and Ashton have the same chemistry as Poitier and Hepburn, or is Bernie getting Punk'd?


Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Hooray for sequels! If it weren't for sequels, this portion of my blog might not exist. And wouldn't you, dear reader, feel a great emptiness? A blog is also a place for a writer's (and I use the term loosely) fantasies.
As anyone who's seen Big Momma's House can attest, being an undercover cop is tough work. All the make-up, costumes, deception, hilarity! "Dying is easy, comedy is hard" as Peter O'Toole says in My Favorite Year (referencing the hard-to-pin-down deathbed quote by either Edmund Keane or Edmund King), so Sandra Bullock goes undercover again in an attempt to bust some guts (and maybe some criminals).
MC2 is already a better movie than Speed 2: Cruise Control, so only one question remains: Is Armed and Fabulous a better subtitle than Sister Act 2's "Back in the Habit"?