Barbershop 2 - Back in Business (2004)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 123
Fresh: 84 | Rotten: 39
The humor is less sharp and more warm-hearted this time around, and the characters are enjoyable to revisit.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 37
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 12
The humor is less sharp and more warm-hearted this time around, and the characters are enjoyable to revisit.
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Kevin Rodney Sullivan steps in to direct the urban comedy sequel Barbershop 2: Back in Business. The whole gang -- Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer), Jimmy James (Sean Patrick Thomas), Terri (Eve), Isaac (Troy Garity), Ricky (Michael Ealy), and Dinka (Leonard Earl Howze) -- are still there in the same old barbershop in the south side of Chicago. Owner Calvin Palmer (Ice Cube) tries to keep his family business alive in order to pass it on to his own son one day. However, the beloved neighborhood
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Cast
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Ice Cube
Calvin Palmer -
Cedric the Entertainer
Eddie -
Sean Patrick Thomas
Jimmy James -
Eve
Terri Jones -
Troy Garity
Isaac Rosenberg -
Michael Ealy
Ricky Nash -
Leonard Earl Howze
Dinka -
Harry J. Lennix
Quentin Leroux -
Robert Wisdom
Alderman Brown -
Jazsmin Lewis
Jennifer -
Carl Wright
Checkers Fred -
DeRay Davis
Hustle Guy -
Kenan Thompson
Kenard -
Queen Latifah
Gina -
Garcelle Beauvais
Loretta -
Avant
Dexter -
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All Critics (126) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (84) | Rotten (39) | DVD (23)
Provides enough solid, character-based amusement to put customers in the chairs and send them out content with services rendered.
Top CriticInane banter soon takes over and is not helped by an unlikely, flashback-heavy subplot about Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) and a lost love.
This sequel is overstaffed with a cast that's underserved by Don D. Scott's schematic script and Kevin Rodney Sullivan's crude direction.
[A]s funny as the original.
Like going out for a bad meal with a group of people you love being with. You're happy to be in their company; you just wish you didn't leave feeling hungry.
Heartstrings will be tugged and ribs tickled, particularly thanks to Cedric the Entertainer.
Great message delivered in an edgy hip-hop movie.
I could barely get over how I would have rather been watching the first film than this.
It's the kind of set-piece ensemble that has proven immensely successful as a sitcom formula but tends to struggle to meet the demands of a movie.
Schoolyard jokes about religious faiths, genetic traits, and sexuality which only work if you enjoy laughing at people because they are darker-skinned, or curlier-haired, or perverted, or have emigrated from another continent.
It ain't high art, but it is a fun flick.
Barbershop 2 is a weak, too rarely humorous, too long bore.
The banter is tighter and funnier, and Calvin's musings on the importance of community seem more heartfelt.
This smart, feisty comedy is still ghetto-fabulous enough to make you laugh until your short, back and sides ache.
A direct hit on Jesse Jackson.
Both films are flawed and unfocused. Both have thin plots that must rely on even thinner back-stories to flesh out a feature length film.
The gist of this film can be summed in one short phrase: 'Sorry. My bad.'
Barbershop 2 achieves what most sequels can only wish for: it's actually much better than the original film.
This likable, lackadaisical comedy proves more focused than the first film yet lacks much of its comic bite.
They need to find the edgy magic that they had with the first blockbuster.
Tries hard, but the routine feels a little too familiar. It's like getting a trim when what you really need is a new style.
Yet another sleeper hit becomes a cynical franchise. I guess 'Nappy-Cutz' wins after all.
Barbershop 2 works best when its characters are being funny and fighting with each other or lambasting pop-culture blemishes ...
The seriousness with which Barbershop II treats its political conscience offers an unexpected weight to what's essentially a big screen sitcom.
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