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11/06/02
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Blow Dry (2001)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:4
Rotten:19
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: Heartwarming, but over-the-top and too formulaic.
Theatrical Release:Mar 9, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: The British Hairdressing Championship is coming to the small Yorkshire town of Keighley. The Mayor (Warren Clarke) is ecstatic--but initially the townspeople are underwhelmed. The exotic models and... [More]
Starring: Alan Rickman, Natasha Richardson, Josh Hartnett, Rachael Leigh Cook
Director: Paddy Breathnach
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Reviews for Blow Dry
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03/19/02
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03/21/01
Top CriticThe script by Simon Beaufoy of The Full Monty fame is far more soapy than bubbly as it concentrates on extended family entanglements and allows its comic potential to be bleached out by a ponderous mawkish streak.
03/09/01
Top CriticBlow Dry seems both overplotted and underimagined.
03/09/01
Top CriticBlow Dry is enjoyable in a low-key way, but it's far from an unqualified hit, and lacks the infectious energy of Beaufoy's earlier effort.
03/09/01
Top CriticA tedious comedy.
03/09/01
Top CriticWhat Blow Dry needs, though, is less connect-the-dots and a little more of the waywardness that Warren Clarke's mayor-turned-emcee manages to wring from his limited assignment.
03/09/01
Top CriticIt's fun.
03/08/01
Top CriticApparently [the town inhabitants] haven't heard of the healing properties of chocolate or male stripping.
03/08/01
Top CriticMore interaction involving the hairdressers and the townspeople – along with the deletion of one or two meaningless side plots – might have given Blow Dry more body.
03/08/01
Top CriticIt's not a good hair day for Blow Dry, in which The Full Monty writer Simon Beaufoy tries to mesh melodrama and camp, but comes up with merely a fraction of the inspiration of his previous international hit.
03/08/01
Top CriticFew things can be counted on to lift a person's spirits better than a good haircut. If Blow Dry isn't quite so sure a bet, it probably comes close enough.
03/08/01
Top CriticIf Blow Dry isn't a rousing triumph on the order of The Full Monty and Brassed Off, Rickman, Richardson and Nighy make sure it's a winning film.
03/08/01
Top CriticDirector Paddy Breathnach, who made the criminally underrated I Went Down, struggles to counteract the hackneyed plotting with visual grace. All the actors likewise struggle to rise above the mawkish sentimentality.
03/08/01
Top CriticThe film comes off as little more than a contrived composite, despite the best efforts of pros Rickman, Richardson, and Griffiths.
03/08/01
Top CriticDespite its dollops of good-natured humor and sentiment, Blow Dry is likely to play better on the tube as a likable-enough diversion.
03/08/01
Top CriticThe problem is director Paddy Breathnach can't decide what kind of movie this should be.
03/08/01
Top CriticIt doesn't matter if you know or care nothing about hairstyling. You'll probably enjoy this movie more the less you care about hair.
03/08/01
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