Writer-director Mark Brown, he of the Barbershop franchise, also has an inexplicable fondness for close-ups that cut off the tops of the actors' heads -- unfortunate in a movie about hair.
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05/08/07
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The Salon (2005)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:4
Rotten:28
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:May 11, 2007 Limited
Box Office: $92,362
Synopsis: At the epicenter of the neighborhood is Jenny's beauty salon, where women flock to get made over and to feel at home. For owner Jenny (Vivica A. Fox) and her loyal patrons, it's more than just a... [More]
Starring: Vivica A. Fox, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Kym Whitley, Terrence Howard
Director: Mark Brown
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Reviews for The Salon
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.
05/11/07
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!
05/10/07
Despite all the stock characters and scenarios, Fox and company manage to bring things to life. And cut some hair.
05/11/07
The movie is a little windy and over-the-top, and the gossipy references to J-Lo and Anna Nicole Smith are woefully outdated.
05/11/07
Not funny enough, romantic enough, or serious enough to succeed as a comedy, romance or urban issues drama.
07/26/07
Talks its way to a tedious, predictable conclusion that offers more yawns than laughs.
05/14/07
Like a perm that won't grow away, it's stuck in the race-comedy mold of Barbershop, Barbershop 2 and Beauty Shop. Been there, done that hair.
05/11/07
Top CriticThe unremitting jokes and insults between blacks and whites, gays and straights, might make the hair on your head (and arms) press and curl from all of the crass and overdone sass.
05/10/07
The movie includes a few good one-liners, but that's really all it is -- a forum for putdowns and sassy dialogues.
07/10/07
The comic equivalent of microwaved leftover food -- and pretty stale at that.
05/10/07
Top CriticThis girl-talk comedy is a cut below its predecessors.
05/08/07
I've seen porn with better dialogue and SNL sketches with less amateur production values.
08/06/07
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.
05/11/07
Like a rerun of a television show you didn't much care for in the first place.
05/10/07
Good-natured but curiously flat, a bottle of root beer that's lost its fizz.
05/10/07
Top CriticThe 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."
05/18/07
What felt like joyful camaraderie in Barbershop comes across here as nasty bickering.
05/11/07
Writer-director Mark Brown, he of the Barbershop franchise, has an inexplicable fondness for close-ups that cut off the tops of the actors’ heads -- unfortunate in a movie about hair.
05/10/07
Bottoms-out with this bit of dialogue: 'If you're going to be a ho, be an ambitious ho. Work uptown.' What unfortunate timing, given the whole Don Imus controversy. Life's simply too short for slur-ploitation with such lamentably low standards.
05/11/07
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