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The Salon (2007)

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Average Rating: 3.4/10
Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 29

Having been delayed several years, The Salon's pop culture references are stale and its story and characters were better done in the Barbershop series.

13

Average Rating: 3.5/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 14

Having been delayed several years, The Salon's pop culture references are stale and its story and characters were better done in the Barbershop series.

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Average Rating: 3.5/5
User Ratings: 3,421

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Movie Info

A Beautyshop owner finds romance as she struggles to save her business.

PG-13, 1 hr. 32 min.

Drama, Comedy

Mark Brown

Aug 7, 2007

$92.4k

All Critics (33) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (31) | DVD (3)

After scripting both Barbershops, writer-director Mark Brown appears to have exhausted his ability to create new and interesting characters to inhabit The Salon.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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Despite all the stock characters and scenarios, Fox and company manage to bring things to life. And cut some hair.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | Comment
Philadelphia Inquirer
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The best scenes in Barbershop featured incisive discussions of current events. Here, the closest brush with topicality is a reference to Eddie Griffin.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | Comment
Newark Star-Ledger
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A feeble dramedy about a Baltimore beauty shop where someone should come in to sweep up the clichés.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Post | Comment
New York Post
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Given that Brown wrote the significantly superior Barbershop, he should know that when you make a socially conscious comedy, you've got to weave in plenty of wit alongside the wisdom.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
New York Daily News
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This movie abruptly becomes a too-convenient black history lesson, complete with a truly egregious deus ex machina. The Salon is a cut below.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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Gosh, what a terrible movie. Stereotypes galore, and the humor falls flat. Paul Chambers, CNN.

January 1, 2010 Full Review Source: CNNRadio | Comment
CNNRadio

Rare indeed, for women to talk back and take over the screen, and these sisters aren't putting up with any of it, from bourgie sellouts and the white girl thing, to decking a local pimp. Way to go, babee!

December 30, 2007 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
NewsBlaze

Like a third-rate Beauty Shop. Skip it.

November 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Vivica A. Fox proves to be a warm and appealing anchor for sometimes sitcom-level silliness.

August 19, 2007 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | Comment
TheMovieReport.com

The basic idea, here, is that like a barbershop, a salon is a place where sassy sisters feel free to refer to blacks by the N-word, to homosexuals by the f-word, and to make idiotic jokes about Asian accents.

August 8, 2007 Full Review Source: EURWeb | Comment
EURWeb

I've seen porn with better dialogue and SNL sketches with less amateur production values.

August 6, 2007 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

The only extras included on the disc are a set of movie trailers.

July 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

Not funny enough, romantic enough, or serious enough to succeed as a comedy, romance or urban issues drama.

July 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | Comment
Apollo Guide

The movie includes a few good one-liners, but that's really all it is -- a forum for putdowns and sassy dialogues.

July 10, 2007 Full Review Source: Baltimore Sun | Comment
Baltimore Sun

The movie was shot more than three years before its release, and it shows, as when the salon's resident golddigger says: "Anna Nicole Smith -- I aspire to be just like her."

May 18, 2007 Comment
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

At least Norbit tried to come up with fresh new awfulness instead of idling in these familiar old ruts.

May 15, 2007 Full Review Source: AV Club | Comment
AV Club

Talks its way to a tedious, predictable conclusion that offers more yawns than laughs.

May 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

The film's feisty cast and generally sunny outlook make for warm and reassuring comfort viewing, the equivalent of a straight-from-the-box dish of mac and cheese.

May 11, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The Salon

Crazy funny!

December 13, 2007
ileo
Leo L

Super Reviewer

Let me say that every one in this film is looking good ya heard. the kid in the film set it over the top would like to see more of the kid in part 2.Vivca look good as a mom the boy match's perfectly' I heard a lot about this film so let's get it to the theater soon i just hope the July 4 release is for real. I meet

January 15, 2011
brandankurtis
Brandan W

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