While Oscar winner Forest Whitaker attempts to reinvent himself with each different film, comedy doesn't seem to be his his forte.

His latest film, 'Our Family Wedding,' which also stars Regina King, America Ferrera, Lance Gross, and Carlos Mencia, is filled with clichés from familiar films such as 'Guess Who?,' which starred Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher and Zoe Saldana, and 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?,' with Sidney Poitier. While 'Dinner' was a groundbreaking film, this film is not as funny as the Mac film, long in the tooth, and very predictable from start to finish.

Directed by Rick Famuyiwa and set in Los Angeles, Lucia Ramirez (played by Ferrera) and Marcus Boyd (played by Gross) are returning home from Columbia University and figuring out ways to not only tell their parents of their relationship, but also mention that they are engaged, and want to get married as quick as possible.

Marcus is a medical school grad looking to work in Laos unpaid, while Lucia is awaiting her Mexican American traditional parents' reaction when she tells them that he's African American and also that she dropped out of law school to become a teacher.

Marcus' father, Brad (played by Whitaker) is a successful radio host and playboy who fancies young starlets, while his most trusted friend and long time lawyer (King) is waiting to see when he will wise up and notice her. One day, he comes across Miguel (played by Mencia), who coming to toll his car for being illegally park. From the start, these two don't get along and it only gets worse once they meet again for dinner arranged by Marcus and Miguel's daughter, Lucia. With the kids eager to get married, both men agree to put aside their differences for the sake of the wedding, although their Lucia's big family wants to have a traditional Mexican wedding filled with the works. Miguel is also not cool with Lucia 'supporting' Marcus once she gets hired by a law firm.

The problem with 'Wedding' is that although the races are different, we've seen this setting before, so the payoff is predictable.

As good as he tries to be funny, Whitaker has no funny bones. The scene with Charlie Murphy and Taye Diggs, in which Murphy sings Babyface's quiet storm classic, 'Soon as I Get Home,' is one of the few highlights.

On the other hand, Mencia is actually a comedian by nature, and while he lifts the film to a certain level of amusement, the longer the film goes, the more his jokes become dry and old. The beautiful Regina King is too good for her role to be so minimal. She had a better and similar role in 'A Thin Line Between Love and Hate.'

With Ferrara of 'Ugly Betty' and Gross of 'Tyler Perry's House of Payne' being the main attractions, they merely seem like props to lure in their TV fans. Their scenes together are so heavily contrived that the film feels like a sitcom stretched into a big screen dramedy.