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11/01/07
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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 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
This girl-talk comedy is a cut below its predecessors.
05/08/07
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
Vivica A. Fox proves to be a warm and appealing anchor for sometimes sitcom-level silliness.
08/19/07
Talks its way to a tedious, predictable conclusion that offers more yawns than laughs.
05/14/07
I've seen porn with better dialogue and SNL sketches with less amateur production values.
08/06/07
The movie is a little windy and over-the-top, and the gossipy references to J-Lo and Anna Nicole Smith are woefully outdated.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
Top CriticThe movie includes a few good one-liners, but that's really all it is -- a forum for putdowns and sassy dialogues.
07/10/07
What felt like joyful camaraderie in Barbershop comes across here as nasty bickering.
05/11/07
The Salon had any genuine sass clipped out of it to fit a PG-13 rating.
05/11/07
Top CriticThis is one of those films where everything simply feels wrong, from the clunky dialogue to the obvious staging.
05/11/07
Top CriticThe 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
This movie abruptly becomes a too-convenient black history lesson, complete with a truly egregious deus ex machina. The Salon is a cut below.
05/11/07
Top CriticDespite all the stock characters and scenarios, Fox and company manage to bring things to life. And cut some hair.
05/11/07
Top CriticAt least Norbit tried to come up with fresh new awfulness instead of idling in these familiar old ruts.
05/15/07
The best scenes in Barbershop featured incisive discussions of current events. Here, the closest brush with topicality is a reference to Eddie Griffin.
05/11/07
Top CriticThe main problem with the movie is the by now shopworn nature of its setting.
05/10/07
Top CriticA feeble dramedy about a Baltimore beauty shop where someone should come in to sweep up the clichés.
05/11/07
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