Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 124
Fresh: 102 | Rotten: 22
Besides bringing on the laughs, Barbershop displays a big heart and demonstrates the value of community.
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 3
Besides bringing on the laughs, Barbershop displays a big heart and demonstrates the value of community.
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Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 53,222
Calvin (Ice Cube) never wanted to take over the family business, a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Disgusted with the shop's crime-ridden neighborhood, and caught up in his moneymaking schemes, one morning Calvin decides to sell the shop to the shady Lester (Keith David). Chastised by his pregnant wife, Jennifer (Jazsmin Lewis), for his rash decision, Calvin spends the day cutting heads at the shop, and starts to understand the importance of the legacy his grandfather and father have
Sep 13, 2002 Wide
Jan 1, 2003
$75.1M
MGM/UA
All Critics (125) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (105) | Rotten (23) | DVD (21)
Some of the verbal jousts are hot, and a Laurel and Hardy routine involving a stolen ATM is fitfully hilarious, but this reminds me of a pilot for a cable sitcom.
Barbershop is a cozy place to hang out for a while, even if you don't need a little off the sides.
The movie's heart is in the right place, which generates enough warmth to make one root for it.
A flat-out hilarious ensemble comedy that probably made me laugh out loud more than any other movie this year.
It's a likable venture that just misses being a lovable one.
It's funny as hell.
Charming urban comedy for teens.
[A] very smart, very clever, very well-written, and very funny piece of filmmaking...
A funny, warm, immensely likable, and all-ages-appealing film centering around the importance of heritage and family.
The problem with Barbershop is that it tries too hard to be too many things.
Rapper-turned-actor Ice Cube ably provides the emotional core in this story of a neighborhood barbershop and its assortment of colorful inhabitants, which is a cut above standard hip-hop cinematic fare.
Perhaps because it promotes traditional values - respect women, crime doesn't pay, family comes first - the film shines in those rare scenes when it plays with received wisdom.
...has the makings of a long-running franchise, but one that just doesn't cut it as a crossover hit.
[Ice] Cube proves that he can be incredibly charismatic performer when he's not glowering at people.
Beneath the jokes is a story about community - what it means to belong to a community and one's responsibility to that community.
One of the best entrants in the fast-growing urban comedy genre.
Clip off a little rehashed material here, trim a few unneeded characters there, and what you have left is sheer entertainment.
The script really should have been given a trim, as it tries to cram in so many characters that few are given the time and space to develop.
The comedy is less than razor sharp.
Funny and exciting. Ice Cube is great. Solid ensemble class.
May 20, 2007Super Reviewer
Pretty good joint, but was it good enough for a sequel and a spinoff? Don't curr just cut my hurr. My barber's Vietnamese so I would have liked to have seen some Asians in the shop. Cedric carried this, great performance by him.
February 26, 2010Super Reviewer
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