Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 18
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 15
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Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 5
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Average Rating: 2.4/5
User Ratings: 28,128
Joy Miller (Fran Drescher) is a beautician who teaches an evening course in hairstyling at a Brooklyn community college. When a cigarette dropped on a wig leads to a fire, Joy saves the lab animals kept in the building and achieves 15 minutes of local notoriety. Grushinsky (Ian McNeice), a representative of the leader of the small Eastern European nation of Slovetzia, is visiting the United States while looking for a tutor for the leader's three children. Thinking Joy teaches science (apparently
Feb 7, 1997 Wide
Jun 24, 2003
Paramount Home Video
All Critics (33) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (15) | DVD (2)
Manages to be sweet and likable, largely because Kwapis directs the actors well and treats the sub-Lubitsch material as if he actually believed in it.
Listening to Fran Drescher's nasal squawk for an entire movie is the price you'll pay to see The Beautician and the Beast. Imagine having your ear canal scoured with Brillo. Only more abrasive.
Cheesy, multi-accented culture-clash comedy that's seldom funny
As hokey and banal as a sitcom, with predictable culture-clash gags and fairly flat one-liners.
A charming surprise
Standard feature-length sitcom material. For Drescher fans only.
The intro was hilarious. Fran Drescher was and still awesome in her own way. Many people might not like her voice but I even enjoy that! I loved The Nanny but couldn't love this in that way. It was okay. Got some funny moments into it but not that hilarious.
August 5, 2010
Super Reviewer
Good giggle-producing combination of The Sound of Music and every fairy tale cliche pairs a tyrant (Timothy Dalton) with a New Yorker (Fran Drescher), and he doesn't stand a chance. The two are in each other's face so often that romance inevitable blooms. Royal pageantry is a visual bonus.
April 29, 2007
Super Reviewer
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