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: 34
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 11
The humor is less sharp and more warm-hearted this time around, and the characters are enjoyable to revisit.
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Average Rating: 3.1/5
User Ratings: 71,582
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
Jan 20, 2004 Wide
Jun 29, 2004
$65.0M
MGM
All Critics (125) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (86) | Rotten (41) | DVD (22)
Provides enough solid, character-based amusement to put customers in the chairs and send them out content with services rendered.
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.
It's a warm, often funny reunion of the sassiest, chattiest characters ever to buzz a brother's head.
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.
Inane banter soon takes over and is not helped by an unlikely, flashback-heavy subplot about Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) and a lost love.
It ain't high art, but it is a fun flick.
Barbershop 2 is a weak, too rarely humorous, too long bore.
This time it's all about story--a clichéd plot that settles into dull familiarity shortly after the promising high-energy pre-title and title sequences
The red, white, and blue barber's pole is getting a little rusty, but fans of the wholesome franchise probably couldn't care less.
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.
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